In modern times,Japan carried out continuous mineral and marine resources plundering in the South China Sea and tried to seize the sovereignty of the South China Sea islands through force and jurisprudence. A large number of relevant historical data are preserved in modern Japanese archives,books,periodicals,news and maps in Taiwan and Japan,involving the Japanese islands adventure,illegal mining of phosphate rock,uninhabited island preemption theory,New South Islandsadministrative operation,and so on. The ...