As Japan celebrates Marine Day 2024, it must also step up responses to foreign countries lawlessly intruding on Japanese seas to expand their maritime claims.
Author Daniel Roh uncloaks a secret deal between Tokyo and Seoul in the 1960s that set aside the Takeshima issue to allow the normalization of relations.
Opposition South Korean lawmakers illegally occupied Takeshima to shake the cooperation between Tokyo, Seoul, and Washington. Autocratic regimes will be happy.
The opposition in South Korea won the election by attacking the ruling party as "pro-Japanese." Despots in China, Russia, and North Korea would welcome that.
A recent Chosun Ilbo article by a university professor in Japan backs South Korea's claims to Takeshima. Historian Masao Shimojo analyzes the historical facts.
The government should not look away from the current situation in which Japan's sovereignty over Takeshima continues to be violated by South Korea.
Japan has 3 territorial problems with her neighbors: Senkaku Islands, Takeshima, and the Northern Territories. We examine their merits under international law.
What is really behind the frenzy stirred up by South Korean opposition politicians, comfort women groups and media who are loudly protesting the Fukushima plan?
The annual Takeshima Day remains a prefectural event. In fact, no cabinet ministers have ever attended the annual ceremony in Matsue.
A trove of official Japanese and American postwar maps provides overwhelming evidence that Takeshima has historically been recognized as Japanese territory.
Like the "My Number Card" has shown, incentives work. Using mutual love of J-pop and K-pop, Japan and South Korea can turn around their relationship.
Japan’s reluctance to take substantive countermeasures to stop these incursions seems only to encourage Seoul’s illegal maritime buildup.