Tokyo has never withdrawn its stance on the Dokdo Islands, which Japan calls Takeshima and claims are a part of its territory. This is one area where the Yoon government has stood firm.

In April 2024, Japanese officials received another demarche about renewed Japanese claims to the disputed Dokdo (Takeshima) islets. Criticism of the Yoon administration’s Japan policy has dovetailed ...

was wearing comfort women’s clothing and argued that Takeshima is Korean territory.” In the video, RM sang “Dokdo is Our Land” while dressed in a hanbok, a traditional Korean garment.

Despite expected huge economic benefits from FTAs, historical and territorial disputes with China over its Northeast Project and Japan's claim to Dokdo/Takeshima (also known as the Liancourt Rocks ...

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is paying a visit to the Republic of Korea on Friday and Saturday as the relationship ...

The small islands, called Dokdo in South Korea and Takeshima in Japan, have been at the center of a decades-long territorial dispute between the two countries. A public uproar arose in South Korea ...

However, the recent increase in tensions over historical legacy issues including comfort women (sex slaves) and the Dokdo/Takeshima Island has served to strengthen more nationalistic elements in ...

The landscape changed in 2012. The then South Korean president landed on the disputed Takeshima islets, which Seoul claims and calls Dokdo. The Japanese-South Korean bilateral relationship then ...

Democratic Party (DP) leader Lee Jae-myung bedridden with the Covid-19 symptom has ordered his party to investigate and campaign against the government’s attempt to “erase Dokdo.” He is misleading the ...