[super_satoh]

Don't be snookered by the nationalist Korean media. There is actually no evidence that the Liancourt Rocks (Takeshima, aka "Dokdo") were ever Korean property. The Korean claim to Takeshima is spurious at best.

BACKGROUND STORY:
Takeshima was among the islands claimed by Japan during the expansion of the Meiji Period. If any old Korean maps actually showed a claim to Takeshima, it would be part of the territory unlawfully seized by Japan, and relinquishing it to Korea would only be fair. But the reality is that Korea never claimed Takeshima, and Japan's claim and incorporation of it in the 20th century was the INITIAL land claim.

Visit this website for information about Japan's historical claim to Takeshima: dokdo-or-takeshima.blogspot.com/

http://www.pref.shimane.lg.jp/soumu/takesima_eng/

The Dokdo Museum in Korea uses a doctored map to lie about historical claims.

[&._Euphoria]

Oh really? Why is this even here again? I'd liken this topic to forum suicide since you're posting in a Kpop forum.

You might stood a better chance posting this in a Japanese forum dude. =]

[HtyPotter]

http://www.geocities.com/mlovmo/page4.html

The Koreans, however, lay their claim to Dokdo based on earlier and more numerous precedents than Japan. They point to the document that named it as a territory that was first incorporated into the Korean Shilla Dynasty in 512 AD. They also point to various government and military reports, policy decisions, land surveys, and maps that were drawn in later centuries that do, in fact, show Dokdo (in its accurate geographic position) to be Korean territory. Some of these documents were even published in Japan: Japanese cartographer Dabuchi Tomohiko cited Dokdo as Korean territory in "Kankoku Shinchishi (New Geography of Korea), Teikoku Encyclopedia Number 134", published in September 1905; six months after the islets were "incorporated" into Shimane Prefecture. In a survey of Korea that was requested by the Colonial Government, Ihohara Fumiichi referred to Dokdo as belonging to Korea. In a 1930 article, Japanese scholar Hibata Sekko mentioned that Dokdo belonged to Kangwon Province, Korea. The Japanese Navy had also cited Dokdo as an appended island to Ullungdo, and Korean territory, in its 1923 publication, "Chosen Engan Suiroshi" (Korean Coastal Straits), as did Japanese maps published in 1872, 1877, and 1936.

And no, this wasn't written by a Korean person. It's convenient that you think the Korean maps were doctored, but what explains the Japanese maps that also show Dokdo as a Korean territory before Japan claimed them?

Japan wants the islands for their strategic location, not because they have historical grounds for their claim. Did you SERIOUSLY think that Japan was the first to claim the islands... in 1905? You actually think they were not discovered before then? You must be pretty desperate to believe that.

[ggangpae_sarang]

HAHAHAHA .... Nice job posting this on a forum that has so many korean members.

ohyeah and dokdo's part of korea