不仅在领土问题上，而且在历史认识上，当我们寻求共识时，当务之急不是找到共识，而是实现事实的共有化。认识以事实为依据，如果对于历史事实莫衷一是，也就不存在共同的基础，不可能达到一致的认识。然而，一种司空见惯的现象是，自己国家的人认为理所当然的事实，对于对方国家的人来说，竟然一无所知。但是，事实毕竟是现实存在的，认定事实并非那么难以实现。如果历史事实的共有化实现了，历史认识问题便也会迎刃而解，共同点会越来越多。

《中日领土问题的起源(政府文件讲述的失真事实)(英文版)》由村田忠禧所著，供读者阅读学习。

Foreword

Chapter One Introduction: The Importance of an Even-minded, Objective Standpoint

 The Most Pressing Task: Seeking Shared Understanding of Facts

 Japan-China Relations: A Look Back to 40 Years Ago and Forward to the Future

Chapter Two The Tripartite Relationship Between the Ryukyus, China,and Japan

 Ming Dynasty Foreign Policy and the Ryukyu Kingdom

 Favorable Ming Policies Toward Ryukyu

 New Developments in East Asia and Changes in Ryukyu

 The Beginning of Satsuma Rule ofRyukyu

  Satsuma Control of Ryukyu

  The Ban on Catholicism and Ryukyu

  The Concealment of Smuggling Trade

  The Implementation of Kenchi Land Survey Policies and

Ryukyu's Incorporation as a Vassal of Satsuma

  Ryukyu, Source of Intelligence on China

 Ryukyu's Relations with Japan and China, Not Only"Dual Dependency"

Chapter Three The Thirty-six Islands of Ryukyu

 The Ryukyu Kuniezu

  Stuck on "36"

 Tei Junsoku's Zhi Nan Guang Yi

 Records from the Chinese Document Shun FengXiang Song

 About the Discoverer of Shun FengXiang Song, Xiang Da

 Naval Defense Maps

 Records of Nobility-Conferring Emissaries

 The Okinawa Trough: a Natural Barrier

Chapter Four East Asian Upheavals and the Ryukyu Kingdom

 Qing China: Sacrificial Lamb to the Western Powers

 The Opium Wars and Ryukyu

 Ryukyu's Response to France

 American Sea Lanes Across the Pacific

 Perry's Japan Expedition

 Exploring the Bonin Islands

 Ten Days in Edo Bay

 The Fight for the Bonins

 Who Really Discovered the Bonin Islands？

 Otsuki Fumihiko's Ogasawarato Shinshi

 The Significance of the Convention ofKanagawa

 An Agreement with Ryukyu

Chapter Five From Tokugawa Shogunate to Meiji Restoration

 The Signing of the Sino-Japanese Friendship and Trade Treaty

 Ryukyuans Killed in Taiwan

 Annexing the Ryukyu Kingdom

 Tribute Forbidden

 The Handling ofRyukyu

 President Grant's Intervention

 Opposition from Within Ryukyu

Chapter Six Nishimnra Sutezo, 1885

 The Fourth Governor of Okinawa Prefecture

 Erecting Sovereignty Markers on the Daito Islands

 Secret Orders to Survey Kumeaka Island, Kuba Island, and

Uotsuri Island

 "Do Not Erect at Present"

Chapter Seven Victory in the First Sino-Japanese War and Subsequent

        Surreptitious Occupation

 Going Abroad for Albatross

 Suppressing the "Escapees to China"

 Governor Maruoka's 1890 Report

 Sasamori Gisuke's Adventures in the Southern lslands

 Governor Narahara's 1893 Report

 Secret Letter No. 12, Response No. 153 to the Department of Prefectural

Administration

 Japan's Overwhelming Victory in the First Sino-Japanese War

 AFar Cry from 1885

Chapter Eight Framework for the Treaty of Shimonoseki Drafted in January

 Deliberate Sabotaging of the Peace Negotiations

 Excluding Taiwan from Ceasefire Agreement

 Signing of the Peace Treaty

Chapter Nine Assessing the Japanese Government's Key Claims

 Are they "Part of the Nansei-shoto" ？

 The Only On-the-Ground Survey

 Were Proper Annexation Procedures Followed？

  A Comparison with the "Pratas Islands"

  Commonality: Imposing Occupation by Siezing the Moment of Military Victory

Appendix

Afterword