It excluded Dokdo/Takeshima. For South Koreans, Dokdo/Takeshima is a potent symbol of Japanese colonialism. South Koreans have written songs about Dokdo (see here, here and here) and conducted Dokdo K ...

South Korea calls it Dokdo, which means solitary islands. Japan calls it Takeshima, which means bamboo islands. And it has also been known as the Liancourt Rocks, named by French whalers after ...

South Korean singer Kim Jang-hoon leading dozens of swimmers to Dokdo or Takeshima. The rocky islets are at the center of a territorial dispute between South Korea and Japan.

Bringing the Dokdo/Takeshima dispute to the ICJ will need a change of national identity narrative in South Korea. By Patrick Flamm. August 26, 2014. Credit: Republic of Korea via Flickr.com.

Bringing the Dokdo/Takeshima dispute to the ICJ will need a change of national identity narrative in South Korea. Japan’s New Remote Island Defense Plan By Clint Richards.

Dokdo/Takeshima CNN — Catching a glimpse of the disputed islands in the distance, you can’t help but wonder how such unremarkable rocks have soured diplomatic relations for so many decades.

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 ...

South Korea calls it Dokdo, which means solitary islands. Japan calls it Takeshima, which means bamboo islands. And it has also been known as the Liancourt Rocks, named by French whalers after ...

The BBC looks at the dispute over islands called Dokdo in South Korea and Takeshima in Japan.