March 3rd, 2013 at 1:44 pm » Comments (11)

A ceremony to unveil the signboard of the Dokdo School is held at the Independence Hall of Korea in Cheonan, 92 km south of Seoul, on Feb. 28, 2013, one day ahead of a holiday marking the 94th anniversary of the 1919 civil uprising against Japanese colonial rule. The school opened to systematically educate people about South Korea’s easternmost Dokdo islets, which Japan persistently claims as its own. Korea was under the Japanese colonial rule between 1910-45. (Yonhap)  

February 24th, 2013 at 1:07 pm » Comments (2)

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade criticized Japan yesterday for holding a Takeshima Day event despite Korea’s objections in advance. The event, which was hosted by the Shimane Prefecture Office, was attended by a record number of Japanese lawmakers and a government official. “We once again sternly urge Japan to immediately abolish the ‘Takeshima Day’ Ordinance and cease its wrongful territorial claim on Dokdo,” said Cho Tai-young, spokesman at the Foreign Ministry, yesterday. “Japan should show a sincere attitude for the development of Korea-Japan relations by immediately dropping its
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November 1st, 2012 at 8:05 am » Comments (8)

Well now know it was a right wing Japanese activist who “vandalized” the comfort women memorial in New Jersey and the Korean consulate in New York: Nobuyuki Suzuki, a 47-year-old right-wing Japanese activist, confessed on his blog on Monday that he was the one who planted a white wooden stake claiming Japan’s ownership of Dokdo, Korea’s easternmost islets, in front of the Korean consulate in New York and next to a historic monument in New Jersey last week. “In the morning of Oct. 26, I planted a wooden stake that
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