日本政府则说根据1885年调查（钓鱼岛），毫无证据证明中国在当时拥有钓鱼岛，所以日本政府在1895年正式承认钓鱼岛为日本国固有领土。

Japan says it saw no trace of Chinese control of the islands in an 1885 survey, so formally recognized them as Japanese sovereign territory in 1895.

即使美国不理会谁拥有（钓鱼岛）哪些岛屿，但是根据美日安全条约，美国必须帮助保护日本所管辖的地区。

The U. S. doesn't take a position on who owns the islands, but the Japan-U. S. security treaty specifies that the U. S. will help defend areas that Japan administers.

生活在一个位于中国东海海域无人居住的野生小岛（钓鱼岛）上的野山羊，目前没有意识到一场“外交风波”正在席卷这个平日无人问津的偏僻栖息地。

A HERD of feral goats on a tiny unpopulated island in the East China Sea live in blissful unawareness of a diplomatic storm brewing around their remote habitat.

日本内阁官房长官藤村修对媒体说，日本应当加强自己在（钓鱼岛）海域巡逻力量以回应他所描述（中国）对日本领海“规模空前的入侵”。

Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura said Japan would intensify its own patrols of the area in response to what he described as an "unprecedented scale of invasion" of Japanese waters.