State Succession
Taiwan

The Japanese Supreme Court reversed a 1987 judgment by the Osaka High Court over the ownership of Guanghualiao, a student dormitory in Kyoto. The dormitory was originally purchased by the ROC government in 1950 and has been occupied by pro-Beijing students. In rejecting Taiwan's demand to evict the occupants, the Japanese Supreme Court ruled that the plaintiff in the case became the Chinese mainland instead of Taiwan after Japan normalized its diplomatic ties with China in 1972. The judgment did not rule on the ownership of the dormitory.