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Liancourt rocks

Liancourt rocks
Dokdo - Takeshima are a group of small islets located in the waters between South Korea and Japan which both countries claim sovereignty over. The islets are called Dokdo in South Korea and Takeshima in Japan. The dispute over who owns the 0.19-square-kilometre territory continues to raise tensions in Japan-South Korean political relations.
General Xavier T. Brunson speaks at Camp Humphreys in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, in 2024. Photo: AFP
South Korea

US general’s ‘dagger’ remark tests South Korea’s China balancing act

A top commander’s blunt remark spotlights a fundamental disagreement over the true purpose of the 28,500 US troops based in South Korea.

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Japan

‘A very good thing’: Japan’s Takaichi steps back from Liancourt Rocks pledge

South Korea

What Takaichi’s landslide victory could mean for Japan-South Korea ties

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Japan

Japan and South Korea clash over islets as old grievances resurface

Analysts warn the squabble is a ‘step backwards’ that offers Beijing a chance to drive a wedge between the two US allies.

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South Korean armed forces hold a defensive drill on the Liancourt Rocks, known as Dokdo or the Takeshima Islands, in 2019. Photo: South Korean Navy/EPA-EFE
South Korea

South Korea vows ‘stern response’ in Liancourt Rocks dispute with Japan

A senior South Korean official says the islets are an ‘integral part of Korean territory historically, geographically and under international law’.

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Japan

Japan’s renewed sovereignty push over disputed islets irks South Korea, China

China has responded to the row at a media briefing, urging Japan to ‘seriously reflect on its history of aggression’.

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Japan

Refuel row: Japan rescinds airbase access to South Korean aerobatics team

Observers say the move reflects how tenuous attempts to build security ties between the two countries remain.

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The South Korean Air Force Black Eagles aerobatic team performs during Seoul International Aerospace & Defence Exhibition in Seongnam, South Korea, on October 17. Photo: Reuters
Japan

Will Japan’s new PM reopen old war wounds with South Korea?

A staunch conservative with ties to a powerful right-wing lobby group, Sanae Takaichi has repeatedly downplayed Japan’s wartime atrocities.

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South Korea

Johnny Somali’s trial in South Korea puts spotlight on ‘nuisance influencers’

South Koreans are calling for authorities to severely punish these attention-seeking influencers and bar them from entering the country.

South Korea

South Korea’s denial of joint drills with Japan highlights past ‘grievances’

Many South Koreans may find it difficult to accept the idea of their soldiers training beside Japanese troops, analysts say.

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South Korean marines dash out of an assault amphibious vehicle at a beach during a landing drill at a beach in Pohang, North Gyeongsang province, on April 28. Photo: EPA-EFE/Yonhap
South Korea

Is South Korea ‘adopting Japanese narratives’ on disputed islets under Yoon?

Critics have accused the South Korean government of playing into Japan’s narrative on Dokdo, which Tokyo claims as the Takeshima islands, amid pressure from Washington for the two to set aside their historical quarrels.

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Seoul’s official stance remains that Dokdo, which Japan claims as the Takeshima islands, is the “inherent territory” of South Korea. Photo: AP
Japan

Japan pulls out of US press meet over Korean police chief’s island visit

Japanese minister Takeo Mori skipped a three-way presser with his US and South Korean counterparts to protest General Kim Chang-yong’s trip to the disputed islets.

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Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games

At Tokyo Games, host Japan faces up to war legacy with China, South Korea

Anti-Japanese grievances concerning territorial disputes, war crimes, and even produce from Fukushima – hit by a nuclear accident in 2011 – have been aired by South Korea and China during the Olympics.

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Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games

‘Trickery’ by Tokyo? Calls grow in South Korea for Olympics boycott over island row

The Korea-controlled Dokdo islets, which Japan claims and calls Takeshima, are indicated with a barely discernible dot on a map of the Olympic torch relay route that was published on the International Olympic Committee’s website.

South Korean Marines take part in a military exercise on the Dokdo islets in 2019. Photo: South Korean Navy/Yonhap via Reuters
Asia travel

Why are patriotic Koreans going on day trips to Dokdo islets?

With Korea’s Liberation Day on August 15, Koreans are heading for the territorially disputed Dokdo islets – called Takeshima islands in Japan – as local tour companies are offering up special tours

After School K-pop star Lizzy visited Dokdo in 2016. Lately, more Koreans are visiting the islands, which are at the centre of a territorial dispute between Korea and Japan. Photo: Instagram
South Korea

South Korea begins war games amid growing trade spat with Japan

The exercises come days after North Korea tested a series of short-range projectiles, and are reportedly a precursor to annual maritime drills near a set of disputed islands that risk adding to trade tensions with Tokyo.

Seoul protests Tokyo's honouring of 'incorporation' of disputed islets

The protest to Hisashi Michigami, minister at the Japanese embassy in Seoul, followed the event in Matsue, the capital of the western Japan prefecture of Shimane, on Saturday, attended by Yoshitami Kameoka, parliamentary secretary with the central government's Cabinet Office.

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Diaoyu Islands

Japan must give back islands

The disputed islands claimed by China and Japan. Photo: Reuters
Diaoyu Islands

Scholar calls reaction of South Korea and China to Japanese textbooks childish

A Japanese scholar has branded as "childish" the reactions in South Korea and China to new school textbooks that describe disputed islands as Japanese territory. Japan's Education Ministry on Tuesday approved a range of new textbooks for the school year that starts in April next year, with two geography books and six covering politics and economics stating that the Diaoyu, or Senkaku, islands and the Takeshima islands, which South Korea calls Dokdo, belong to Japan.

South Korea

South Korean schools to teach about Dokdo islands dispute

Beginning this year, all schools will be required to provide a minimum of 10 hours of classes annually on "the importance of Dokdo", a ministry spokesman said.

Japan stages rally over disputed islands with South Korea

A protester takes part in an annual Takeshima Day anti-South Korea rally in Tokyo on Friday over the disputed islands called Takeshima in Japan and Dokdo in South Korea. Photo: Reuters
IOC

FIFA suspends S Korean player for two matches

South Korea's Park Jong-woo. Photo: AP
Shinzo Abe

South Korean concerns ahead of Japanese election

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Briefs, November 13, 2012

Japan, South Korea plan first formal meeting since islands dispute

The disputed islands, known as Dokdo in Korea and Takeshima in Japan. Photo: AFP
South Korea

South Korea renames peaks of disputed Dokdo islands

The disputed islands - called Dokdo in South Korea and Takeshima in Japan. Photo: Xinhua

Seoul to rename peaks to assert claim to disputed islands

Google drawn into S Korea-Japan island dispute

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