South Korean
students urged by
dishonorable adults
In the Sea
of Japan sit a group of small islets (very small islands or large rocks) called
the Liancourt Rocks. Known in Japan as
Takeshima, and in South Korea as Dokdo.
Both nations claim the islands, South Korea occupies them.
Students at
a middle school in South Korea’s Sejong Special Autonomus City sent 36 post
cards to middle school students in Japan.
The post cards were in reference to Takeshima, reading that Dokdo
belongs to South Korea. Some examples as
reported in The Asahi Shimbun on December 17, 2018:
“I want you
to know that Dokdo is South Korean territory,” the postcards read. The students
wrote their plea in Korean and English, adding, “Please don’t blindly accept
what the Japanese textbooks say.” Some students drew illustrations of the
islets with a Korean flag.”
Post cards
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CORRECTION: The recent banner display and small fire at
the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, Japan, was done by a Chinese man from Hong Kong,
not Korean.
In 1960 USA
ambassador to Japan Douglas MacArthur II (nephew to General Douglas MacArthur)
sent a telegram to the U.S. State Department (see links below). In the telegram he states Takeshima belongs
to Japan and the U.S. government should pressure South Korea to return the
islands. The telegram was sent to the
National Archives in Washington, DC. The
National Archives is a repository assigned to preserve government
documents. An archivist at the National
Archives the telegram was authentic.
Douglas
MacArthur’s telegram on PropagandaBuster’s blog:
Douglas
MacArthur’s telegram appeared on this Japanese website:
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