Takeshima or Dokdo?

今日は竹島についてです。

慰安婦と竹島、直接関係が無いとお考えの方もいるかも知れませんが、実は非常に密接な関係があると考えます。色々な見方がありますが、慰安婦問題を声高に叫ぶ韓国というのは厚顔無恥にも竹島を６０年以上も不法占拠している国であります。

South Korea is a country which keeps occupying Japan's Takeshima island and keeps attacking Japan claiming Comfort Women Issue is true.

Takeshima or Dokdo?

1 Imperial Japanese Army and Navy were dismantled in 1945.

2 Republic of Korea (ROK) led by President Syngman Rhee asked US to give Tsushima island to ROK and it was turned down in 1949.

3 Then in 1951, ROK asked US to give Takeshima (Dokdo) island to ROK and it was officially turned down again as seen in the Rusk documents by David Dean Rusk.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusk_documents

4 After that, ROK took Takeshima by force in January 1952. At the same time, ROK took about 4,000 Japanese fishermen as hostages, some of them got killed.

5 The San Francisco Peace Treaty came into force on April 28, 1952.

6 The Japan Self-Defense Forces were set up in 1954.

7 The Japanese Constitution (article 9) was another reason why Japan has not been able to take Takeshima back.

Japan has more than once asked ROK to peacefully resolve the issue at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), but ROK has never accepted it while Korean people as young as kindergartners keep saying "Dokdo belongs to Korea!""Dokdo belongs to Korea!" even in America.