"South Korea and Japan’s island dispute lead to crazy times…"
Anna Kitanaka
British Born Japanese Journalist
South Korea and Japan’s island dispute lead to crazy times…
“Islands row deflates Japanese condom sales drive in SKorea”—AFP
The AFP reported yesterday that South Korea’s subway system were forced to remove adverts for Japanese condoms amid increasing public anger over the Dokdo/Takeshima island disputes.
According to the report, 200 ads for Okamoto condoms, not depicting condoms but containing the slogan “No. 1 in Japan” were removed just five days after being posted.
“There were public complaints about promoting Japanese condoms and we immediately took action,” Seoul Metro spokesman Kim Jeong-Hwan told AFP. He says that there would not have been complaints had it not been for the island dispute issue flaring up again.
Obviously the fact that it was an advertisement for condoms is great for the media, with these newspapers and broadcasters having already picked up the story:
The Guardian
The BBC
RIA Novosti
AFP
Reuters
The Scotsman
However, an even gorier story appeared around the same time. According to The Standard, about 40 military veterans staged a protest outside the Japanese embassy by cutting off the heads of pheasants—Japan’s national bird. Apparently they then dripped blood onto Japanese flags and on pictures of PM Fukuda. It gets worse. The article claims that some of them even “battered birds to death with hammers. Others cut open bellies and ate the livers, shouting: “Dokdo is our territory!”
The Standard: www.thestandard.com.
BBC: www.bbc.co.uk
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Dokdo is dokdo
Here's a fact: "In Dec 1949 United Nation's GHQ decided Dokdo belongs to Korea, stating that all territories that Japan took during WWII by force must be returned to the rightful owners (nations)."
So Japan is trying to claim these tiny islands because they once took it with force during WWII. What kind of fascist idea is this - it's just nasty.
Go international court.
Go international court. That's it.
Doko is not officially Dokdo
Actually Korea never occupied or claimed the rocks (it's not actually an island) prior to WWII. It was mentioned in ancient descriptions of Korea's territory, but not on it'd maps. Japan claimed the Takeshima rocks during the Russian-Japanese war. Then subsequently annexed Korea years later. After to war it was unofficially agreed to be Japanese territory but left out of the San Francisco Treaty. The united nations America and Taiwan criticised Korea's claim to the rocks. Minor islands are always complicated because they extend a countries economic exclusion zone.
Dokdo is Korean
The Japanese annexed Dokdo-Takeshima during the Russo-Japanese War. This was fought for the exclusive right to colonize the Korean nation.
The San Francisco Peace Treaty makes no mention of the rocks and the U.S. only supported Japan's claim in confidential memorandums, never publicly.
http://dokdo-takeshima.com/
not takeshima dokdo
DOKDO IS KOREA ISLETS.
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