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Family owning Senkaku Islands

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroyuki Kurihara, whose siblings own four of the five main islands of Senkaku in the East China Sea, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on July 20, 2012. He said the family intends to sell the islands to the Tokyo metropolitan government, despite the central government's desire to acquire and nationalize the islands, administered by Japan but claimed by China and Taiwan.

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Family owning Senkaku Islands

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroyuki Kurihara, whose siblings own four of the five main islands of Senkaku in the East China Sea, holds a photo of a tuna caught near the islands, during a press conference in Tokyo on July 20, 2012. He said the family intends to sell the islands to the Tokyo metropolitan government, despite the central government's desire to acquire and nationalize the islands, administered by Japan but claimed by China and Taiwan.

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Senkaku landowner

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Hiroyuki Kurihara, a company executive and member of a family which owns areas of the disputed Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea, during an interview in Tokyo in July 2011.

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Senkaku landowner

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Hiroyuki Kurihara, a company executive and member of a family which owns areas of the disputed Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea, during an interview in Tokyo in July 2011. (Kyodo)