How far is China from Japan?

Japan is very close to China, and the nearest place is called Nagano Island, which is only100km, equivalent to an hour's drive.

Nagano Island, located in Yaeyama Islands, Japan, covers an area of only 28 square kilometers. The island is about 500 kilometers southwest of Okinawa, about 1000 kilometers from Kagoshima Prefecture, Kyushu, but it is particularly close to China, less than10 km from Wuyanjiao, Dongao Town, Yilan County, Taiwan Province Province.

In the cloudless clear sky of Wan Li in Wan Li, you can see the mountains of Taiwan Province Province Island at the western end of Nagano Island.

And the historical changes of Nagano Island.

Nagano Island was originally a part of Kyushu Island in the Ice Age, bordering Kyushu Island. Historically, it used to be a border area of rope countries and a hub connecting Malay immigrants. 1522, after Wang Shangzhen, the Ryukyu kingdom, put down the "Ghost-Tiger Rebellion" with Nagano Island, he expanded his power to Miyako Island and Yaeyama Islands, and basically determined the southern boundary of Ryukyu.

1537, King Shang Qing captured the Amami Islands in the north, thus unifying the entire Ryukyu Islands and establishing the boundary of Ryukyu from Jesse Island and Amami Island in the north to Miyako Island and Yaeyama Islands in the south.

The Japanese government has long coveted Ryukyu. 1609 (thirty-seventh year of Wanli in Ming dynasty), Samofan of Tokugawa shogunate of Japan led an army to capture the first imperial capital of Ryukyu. Wang Shangning, the Ryukyu kingdom, and others were captured. It was not until two years later that King Shangning was forced to sign a treaty recognizing Samoans' control over Ryukyu and ceding the Amami Islands to Samoans that he released King Shangning.

Since then, Ryukyu has entered the period of "one country and two genera", that is, paying tribute to the Qing Dynasty and Japan at the same time. After the Meiji Restoration, Japan began to expand Zhang Zhilu to the outside world, and/kloc-0 formally annexed the whole Ryukyu in 879. After World War II, the United States hosted the entire Ryukyu Islands, but in 1972, the United States illegally transferred the management rights of Ryukyu and Diaoyu Islands to Japan behind China's back.