[Asia Economy Reporter Yoon Seul-gi] Japan's event claiming Dokdo as their territory, called 'Takeshima Day' (竹島, the name Japan uses for Dokdo), has been held for the 18th consecutive year. Japan ...

On Monday, the Japanese government reacted furiously over an inter-Korean Olympic flag depicting the disputed uninhabited Islands called “Dokdo” in South Korea and “Takeshima” in Japan as part of ...

South Korea and Japan share an at times volatile post-war relationship. The dispute over the Dokdo/Takeshima islets remains a significant point of contention in the strained South Korea–Japan ...

During the recent APEC Summit in Russia, South Korean President Lee Myung-bak and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda faced each other amidst tension over the Dokdo/Takeshima Islets in the Sea of ...

Dokdo, or Takeshima in Japanese, is a small group of rocky islets that lie in between South Korea and Japan. Although South Korea has been deploying its own Coast Guard members to the islets since ...

Tokyo’s new National Museum of Territory and Sovereignty opened this year, a permanent collection of historical documents highlighting Japan’s official territorial claim over the Diaoyu/Senkaku and ...

In May this year, Jonathan Berkshire Miller argued in The Diplomat that a joint petition made by South Korea and Japan to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) may be the most feasible solution to ...

I am writing to make a comment on a July 11 article, ``Popular Singer Finances Dokdo Promotion Ad in NYT.'' I am a very globally inclined Korean student who is trying to continue my studies in a ...

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A famous South Korean rock singer is just hours away from swimming into the diplomatic row over a small group of rocky islets in the East Sea, or the Sea of Japan. Kim Jang-hoon is among dozens of ...