Takeshima:
South Korea recently protested a Japanese government-backed “Takeshima Day” event, calling it an unjust assertion of sovereignty over disputed islands also claimed by Japan.
- Takeshima is a group of small islets situated in the middle of the Sea of Japan.
- It is called Dokdo in South Korea and Takeshima in Japan.
- It has also been known as the Liancourt Rocks, named by French whalers after their ship in 1849.
- South Korea currently administers the islets, maintaining a small police detachment and facilities.
- Japan claims sovereignty and considers the issue an unresolved territorial dispute.
- The Sea of Japan, or East Sea, is a marginal sea of the western Pacific Ocean.
- It is bound by Japan and Sakhalin to the east and by mainland Russia, North Korea, and South Korea to the west.
