Japan was supposed to return its colonial possessions, but the United States took over the Senkaku Islands along with Okinawa, before returning both to Japan in 1972. The Koreans, still enraged at Japan for almost a half-century of colonization, took the Dokdo islands without worrying about the move’s legality.
二战后事情就得更加复杂了。日本本应把殖民地物归原主，但美国把冲绳连带着钓鱼岛一起接管了过来，又在1972年把这两者移交给日本。而遭受了近半世纪殖民统治的韩国人仍对日本怀恨在心，他们强行占据了独岛，根本不管此举是否合法。