# Uotsuri Island
## English
### Etymology

From Japanese 魚釣島(うおつりしま) (uotsurishima).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˌuːoʊˈtsʊəɹi/

### Proper noun

Uotsuri Island
* An island in Ishigaki, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, in the Senkaku Islands.
** 1940 February 6, “13 Rescued from Wrecked Plane”, in Victoria Daily Times‎, volume 96, number 31, Victoria, B.C., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 14, column 1:A rescue ship headed toward Formosa today with the 13 persons who lived through the wrecking of a Japanese airways land plane in a forced landing on Uotsuri Island. The stranded crew of four and nine passengers were sighted by the ship along the beach, 110 miles north of Formosa.
** 2012 August 17, “Japan deports pro-China activists”, in Deutsche Welle‎, archived from the original on 13 August 2022, News:Japan sent home the first of a group of Chinese activists and reporters late on Friday, two days after arresting them on the disputed islands known as Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China. Five were detained on the Uotsuri Island for violating immigration laws, while the other nine were picked up by the Japanese Coast Guard.
** 2012 August 19, Keith Bradsher, Martin Fackler, “Chinese Take to Streets as Dispute With Japan Escalates”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2012-08-19, Asia Pacific‎:Japanese activists raised flags early Sunday on Uotsuri Island, part of the small archipelago known in Japan as Senkaku and in China as Diaoyu. […] Even as the protests began unfolding Sunday morning, a group of conservative Japanese activists might have planted the seeds for further anger in China. About 10 of the activists, including local assembly members from Tokyo, swam ashore to the disputed island, Uotsuri. While Japan controls the island chain, the Tokyo government restricts access to avoid inflaming regional tensions. The 10 who landed Sunday did so without permission, and were later questioned by the Japanese Coast Guard.
** 2013 January 28, J. Michael Cole, “Patch reaffirms sovereignty over Diaoyutais”, in Taipei Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2013-02-04, Front Page, page 1‎:Meanwhile, Japanese media reported at the weekend that a Coast Guard Administration vessel was seen operating in waters near the Diaoyutais, coming within 39km off Uotsuri Island, the largest islet in the chain, known as the Senkakus by the Japanese.
** 2014 January 2, Junko Fujita, Ben Blanchard, “Chinese balloonist lands in midst of isle dispute with Japan”, in William Mallard, Robert Birsel, editors, Reuters‎, archived from the original on 2016-12-02, World News‎:On the day Xu, identified as a native of Hebei province, was fished out of the water 22 km (14 miles) south of Uotsuri island, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe reiterated his commitment to a stronger military and to revising the pacifist constitution.
** 2014 January 3, Richard Lloyd Parry, “Chinese balloonist saved after failed bid to claim islands”, in The Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 August 2021:Xu Shuaijun, who identified himself as a cook, ditched in the East China Sea on Wednesday after experiencing problems during a 223-mile (360km) crossing from the Chinese province of Fujian to Uotsuri Island, known in China as Diaoyu Dao. It is 1.6sq miles (4.3sq km) and is the largest of the Senkaku islands, which are administered by Japan but claimed by China under the name of the Diaoyus. […] In 2012, a group of Hong Kong-based activists were arrested and swiftly deported after briefly landing on Uotsuri island. A few days later, a group of Japanese nationalists did the same, although the Japanese Government restricts landings even by its own citizens to minimise offence to Beijing.
** 2016 August 11, “Chinese fishing boat collides with Greek freighter near Senkakus, 6 rescued”, in The Mainichi‎, archived from the original on 2016-08-12‎:At around 5:30 a.m., crewmembers of a JCG patrol boat received an SOS from the 106,726-ton freighter Anangel Courage. The patrol vessel and a JCG plane found the freighter on the high seas about 67 kilometers away from Uotsuri Island, one of the Senkaku Islands, which are also claimed by China.
** 2017, Yongwook Ryu, “The Nationalist Threat to the East Asian Peace”, in Elin Bjarnegård, Joakim Kreutz, editors, Debating the East Asian Peace: What it is. How it came about. Will it last?‎, NIAS Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 251–252:On 13 December 2012, China sent a State Oceanic Administration aircraft (Harbin Y-12) to fly over the territorial space of Uotsuri Island, one of the disputed islands, thereby creating a dangerous situation of contingency and escalation, especially after the Japanese government scrambled its fighter jets to drive it out.
** 2021 December 27, Kyodo, Julian Ryall, “Japan simulated ‘foreign’ invasion of Diaoyu Islands in East China Sea with drill involving Self-Defence Forces, coastguard and police”, in South China Morning Post‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 May 2023, This Week in Asia / Politics‎:Several government sources told Kyodo News that a drill involving the Self-Defence Forces (Japan’s de facto military), coastguard and police took place at an uninhabited island in Nagasaki prefecture with land features resembling Uotsuri Island, one of the islets that make up the Diaoyu/Senkaku islands in the East China Sea.
** For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Uotsuri Island.

#### Synonyms

* (ellipsis) Uotsuri
* (from Japanese) Uotsuri-shima
* (from Mandarin Chinese) Diaoyutai

#### Translations
### Further reading

* Uotsuri Island at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.