S Korea blasts Japan's teaching curriculum on disputed islets

So much for the previous news blurb about the two cooperating.

Those islets are Japan's, not South Korean.

More tit for tat play ground stuff. This region will never realise its potential. Ever!

South Korea needs to settle the issue at the ICJ like any civilized country with a valid claim. Japan has asked South Korea to d so THREE times and they continue to refuse. Gee, I wonder why?....

And in reply, "Japan blasts S Korea's teaching curriculum on disputed islets."

It is factually incorrect to say the islands are an integral part of Japan. The islands are claimed by Japan, but under the control of South Korea. If the islands were truly an integral part of Japan Japanese would be able to travel there freely, but they cannot.

Uh huh, and I'm sure the Korean curriculum is also completely fair and balanced and goes into the details and history of the disputed islands!

It is not called the "Sea of Japan" by Japanese. It's called "Sea of Japan" in the world map pretty much everywhere but South Korea since like a year ago or so.

There are Korean people living in those islands and administered by South Korea since 1954 so it's really impossible the islands are "an integral part" of Japan.

It seems to me that it is only Japan who thinks that these islands (and others) are disputed. As far as everybody else is concerned, there is no dispute.

Incidentally on world maps I have seen 3 versions of the stretch of this water. "Sea of Japan", "East Sea", "Sea of Japan (East Sea)".

The only one I have not seen is "East Sea (Sea of Japan)".

There is indeed a dispute, only because South Korea refuses to settle the issue at the ICJ. Japan has the historical evidence to support it's position, whereas South Korea claim's it does but refuses to go before the ICJ. The Islands were claimed unilaterally when the Syngman Rhee line was drawn up in 1952.

"According to the Report of Van Fleet Mission to Far East made in 1954, the U.S. government stressed that the one-sided declaration of the Syngman Rhee Line was illegal under international law. "

It was the United States that urged Japan to immediately take South Korea to the ICJ over this issue.

South Korea has illegally occupied the island and used force to maintain control over it.

As for the silly "East Sea" nonsense, a term which only makes any sense to someone standing on the Korean Peninsula, the entire world calls it the "Sea of Japan" including Russia and China. The term "East Sea" in China refers to he "East China Sea". That the term "Sea of Japan (East Sea)" can be seen in the media is only due to the enormous propaganda pressure applied by South Korea on the world to advance it's position.

It is not called the "Sea of Japan" by Japanese. It's called "Sea of Japan" in the world map pretty much everywhere but South Korea since like a year ago or so.

I remember that the map in my 1986 pocket dairy read East Sea. I cannot remember where the dairy was published, but I remember my Japanese commenting on this.

Ex_ResToday 08:00 am JST

I remember that the map in my 1986 pocket dairy read East Sea. I cannot remember where the dairy was published, but I remember my Japanese commenting on this.

Either published in South Korea or your memory is questionable.

Give the rocks to the ROK. It is better to give up this small rocks than cause friction between Japan and the Republic of Korea. They are not worth angering the ROK.