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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.
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
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 Korea

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

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Japan

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

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.

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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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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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Chefs dispatched from South Korea prepare boxed meals for the country‘s Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games delegation at a hotel in Japan rented out for their sole use. Photo: Reuters
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

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.

Yoshitami Kameoka, Parliamentary Secretary of Japan's Cabinet Office, delivers a speech at the ceremony for the Day of Takeshima. Photo: AFP
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.

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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

Shinzo Abe

South Korean concerns ahead of Japanese election

Malala Yousafzai

Briefs, November 13, 2012

The Dalai Lama is on a 10-day visit to Japan. Photo: AFP

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

Seoul to rename peaks to assert claim to disputed islands

Google drawn into S Korea-Japan island dispute

Members of South Korea's parliamentary National Defence Committee hold a banner reading 'Dokdo is Korean territory, we defend!' during a visit to the Dokdo islands (known as Takeshima in Japan) on Tuesday. Photo: AFP

Tokyo protests at South Korean MPs' visit to disputed islands

The set of disputed islets known as Dokdo in South Korea and Takeshima in Japan. Photo: AP

South Korean lawmakers visit islands disputed with Japan

Diaoyu Islands

Timely reminder of the ills of nationalism

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