1.   Lighthouses were built.

2.   The following year the first lighthouse was built on top of a promontory at Stony Point.

3.   The latest round began in July after a group of Japanese rightists built a lighthouse on the islands and adorned it with a Japanese flag.

4.   Vietnam brushed aside the complaints, saying the lighthouse was being built simply as a navigational aid for the use of all ships in the area.

5.   An old dispute over the uninhabited islands reignited in July after the rightists built the lighthouse.

6.   China and Taiwan, another claimant, already had complained to Tokyo in August when the extremists built the lighthouse on one of the Senkaku Islands.

7.   In August, China and Taiwan complained to Tokyo when the extremists built the lighthouse on one of the Senkaku Islands.

8.   Shimanouchi, the Japanese spokesman, played down the fact that the government looked the other way while nationalists were building the lighthouse.

9.   South Korea is planning to build a lighthouse on a barren islet also claimed by Japan, the Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Ministry said Thursday.

10.   The dispute resurfaced last summer when Japanese nationalists built a lighthouse on one of the islets.