Koriki Jojima is appointed to the post of education minister . Japan controls and administers the islands , but China says they are an integral part of its territory that Tokyo `` stole '' in the 19th century . Her father oversaw the normalization of relations with Beijing 2002 . Beijing and China are locked in a dispute over a group of remote islands .
Koriki Jojima is appointed to the post of education minister . Her father oversaw the normalization of relations with Beijing 2002 . Beijing and China are locked in a dispute over a group of remote islands .