Soon after the Hong Kong activists' protest landing on the disputed islands, Japanese citizens, including local assembly members, staged their own landing there. Moreover, the Japanese government, while rejecting a further appeal from Ishihara to provide land on the isles to the Tokyo municipality, is, however, raising money to purchase some of the islands from their supposedly bankrupt Japanese owner.
就在香港保钓人士登岛抗议后不久，包括一些地区议员在内的日本公民也实施了本方的登岛行动。此外，日本政府一方面拒绝了石原慎太郎要求在岛屿上提供土地给东京市政府的进一步请求，另一方面则筹集资金去从那些据称已经破产的日本土地所有者手中购买这些岛屿。