Japan requested U.S. to amend neutrality over Senkakus in 1970s

The Japanese government had requested the United States to amend its neutral stance regarding Japan's sovereignty of the Senkaku Islands in April 1978, but Washington rejected it, according to declassified U.S. government documents.The documents, obtained by Kyodo News from the U.S. National Archives, also showed that the U.S. government had declined to alter its impartiality over the Japanese-controlled, Chinese-claimed islands in the East China Sea on the basis that the U.S. government's "position on Senkakus dispute had not changed since 1972" when Okinawa, including the uninhabited isle…READ FULL ARTICLE