1.   Japan occasionally scrambles its fighter aircraft when Chinese warplanes approach the Senkaku Islands, a few uninhabited islets that both countries claim.

2.   Also Friday, Taiwanese and Japanese officials began talks in Tokyo on fishing rights near the uninhabited islets.

3.   Athens says international treaties establish its sovereignty over the uninhabited islet, which the Greeks call Imia and the Turks call Kardak.

4.   Building it meant flattening two uninhabited islets and pushing back the sea for the runways.

5.   Building the new airport meant flattening two uninhabited islets and pushing back the sea for the runways.

6.   Greece and Turkey nearly went to war over an uninhabited islet in the eastern Aegean Sea in late January, pulling back only after emergency U.S. mediation.

7.   Greece and Turkey almost went to war in January over a group of uninhabited islets near the Turkish coast.

8.   Greece and Turkey nearly went to war in January after Turkey laid claim to an uninhabited islet in the eastern Aegean Sea that Athens says is Greek.

9.   It was built on a manmade islet west of outlying Lantau island by flattening two uninhabited islets and pushing back the sea.

10.   Other disputes in the Aegean, including seabed mineral rights and uninhabited islets, have twice brought the neighbors to the brink of war in the past decade.