evidence: Based on their own arguments, China and Japan have accepted that the territorial status of the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands at the end of the war would determine whether these reverted to China’s historic title or remained in Japan’s possession. To recall, the premise of China’s claim is that the islands belong to the third category of stolen territory, and so reverted to its possession because of historic title,74 whereas for Japan, they belong to the second category of territory which the Allied powers decided to maintain under Japanese sovereignty.75 The status quo of the islands after the war is decisive.