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TAKESHIMA

Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 21, 2014
Shimane locals ambivalent on disputed islets
Shimane Prefecture residents and historical researchers have expressed mixed feelings ahead of Takeshima Day, designated by local ordinance in 2005 and set to be marked Saturday under considerable scrutiny because of its link to a territorial row with South Korea.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 14, 2014
State official to attend Takeshima Day event
A senior government official will attend a ceremony next week commemorating Japan's "incorporation" of the two tiny islets at the center of the simmering sovereignty dispute with South Korea, the minister in charge said Friday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 28, 2014
Japan teacher manuals state official positions on Senkaku and Takeshima isles
The education ministry instructs junior high and high school teachers to use newly revised manuals to teach their students that the Senkaku Islands and Takeshima islets are “integral parts of Japanese territory.”
JAPAN
Dec 29, 2013
Japan to take foreign reporters on 10-day isle dispute junket
The Foreign Ministry plans to invite more than 100 U.S. and European journalists stationed in China and South Korea to come to Japan early next year to school them on the government's stance on two territorial disputes involving tiny islands.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 22, 2013
New official site to state case for Senkakus, Takeshima
The government will set up a new website to promote its claims over disputed islands in nearby waters, risking a fresh backlash from China and South Korea.
JAPAN
Nov 8, 2013
Japan, S. Korea, China to make joint effort for trilateral summit
South Korea, Japan and China have agreed to try to arrange a trilateral summit despite their frosty relations over contrasting perceptions of wartime history and territorial disputes.
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 5, 2013
Tokyo, Seoul, Beijing envoys to talk Thursday
Senior diplomats from South Korea, Japan and China will hold talks Thursday in Seoul to discuss regional and international issues of common interest, the South Korean Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 23, 2013
Japan's video campaign on Takeshima to continue despite Seoul's protests
Japan will continue its video propaganda campaign over a pair of South Korean-controlled islets in the Sea of Japan despite the protests and demands by Seoul that Tokyo's video on the subject be taken off a popular video-sharing website, the government said Wednesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 16, 2013
Abe unlikely to meet with Li, Park by year's end
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will probably not meet with China's or South Korea's leaders this year as the possibility of a trilateral summit being held before Dec. 31 is slim, a Japanese government source said Wednesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 28, 2013
Google Maps naming policy prompts Japan to request home page bans
The government has asked local authorities and state-run universities not to post maps provided by Google Inc. on their websites because some of them include foreign place names that undermine Japan's territorial claims, sources said Saturday.
JAPAN
Jul 9, 2013
Seoul protests mention of islets as part of Japan
Seoul lodged an official protest Tuesday with Tokyo after the Defense Ministry in its annual white paper described South Korea-controlled islets in the Sea of Japan as Japanese territory.
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 24, 2013
Historians tour Takeshima, hit Japan
Three Japanese historians on Thursday visited the South Korean-controlled Takeshima islets claimed by Japan to carry out on-site research, a member of the group said.
JAPAN / Politics
May 8, 2013
Bad feelings dominate Japan-South Korea public sentiment
Nearly 80 percent of South Koreans have a negative impression of Japan, while about 40 percent of Japanese have an unfavorable image of South Korea, according to the results of a bilateral poll released Tuesday.
JAPAN
Feb 26, 2013
South Korean merchants plan Japan boycott
South Korea's self-employed merchants said Monday they plan to boycott Japanese products to protest Tokyo's latest sovereignty claim to a pair of islets controlled by South Korea, according to Yonhap News Agency.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 24, 2013
South Korean hurls feces at Japanese Embassy in Seoul over Takeshima row
A South Korean man hurled human feces into the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on Friday to protest Tokyo's sovereignty claim to a pair of islets controlled by South Korea, but he was freed by police despite carrying out an identical attack last August, Yonhap news agency reported.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 23, 2013
Aging islanders long for Takeshima's return
With Friday the day that Japan commemorates incorporating Takeshima, a group of rocky Sea of Japan islets now controlled by South Korea, the aging residents of nearby islands have not given up hope that the disputed outcroppings may one day be returned to Japan.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 23, 2013
Seoul hits senior official's Takeshima Day presence
A senior government official Friday attended the annual ceremony commemorating the day Takeshima, now controlled by South Korea, was incorporated as Japanese territory, sparking a protest from Seoul.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 22, 2013
Don't send top official to Shimane's Takeshima fete, Seoul warns Tokyo
Seoul will retaliate if Tokyo sends a senior official to an event held by Shimane Prefecture to promote Japan's claim to a pair of South Korea-controlled islets, the South's foreign ministry warns.
JAPAN
Feb 19, 2013
Takeshima ceremony to draw 18 lawmakers
Shimane Prefecture's annual ceremony Friday to commemorate Japan's 1905 annexation of Takeshima will draw at least 18 Diet members, but so far no one in the Cabinet has signaled plans to participate in the event, the prefecture said Monday.
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