| Japan's
Claim over Dokdo and Korea's Refutation. |
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Japan's Claim - Tokdo is an inherent
territory of Japan, not of Korea.
-> Tokdo has been a part of Korean
territory since 512 A.D., and the first Japanese written
record on Tokdo, the Records on Observations in Onshu
published in 1667, admits this fact. |
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Japan's Claim - Tokdo was a terra
nullius and Japan acquired it by means of prior occupation
-> The Japanese imperialists
knew that Tokdo was not a terra nullius when they seized
it by force and sub rosa in February 1905 for military
purposes: to set up a watchtower on the island during
the Russo-Japanese war. |
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Japan's Claim - The Empire of Korea
made no protest against Japan's annexation of Tokdo in
1905.
-> The Japanese government claims
that the Korean side did not protest against the annexation
of Tokdo into Japanese territory, but Korean documented
records show that both the government and people resolutely
denounced and rejected it. |
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Japan's Claim - The areas the Japanese
approved and returned to Korea were those of the Emipire
of Korea when the Treaty of Annexation was signed in August
1910 and did not include Tokdo, which Japan annexed before
that time, i.e., 1905
-> The Japanese government maintains
that the Meiji government was not aware that Tokdo was
Korean territory. This is contradicted by the Japanese
Council of State, the Foreign Ministry, the Home Ministry,
the Ministries of the Army and the Navy of the Meiji government,
and the maps published by them. |
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Japan's Claim - The Meiji government
of Japan never recognized Tokdo as Korean territory
-> The Allied Power's defination
that Japan should be "expelled from all other territories
which she has taken by violence and greed" does not
apply from the time of Japanese annexation of Korea in
August 1910, but from 1895 when Japan won the Sino-Japanese
war and seized the Liaotung peninsula, Tawian and the
Pescadores, which were restored to China after the end
of World War ¥±. Thus, the definition applies to Tokdo,
which Japan grabbed from Korea "by violence and greed"
in 1905. |
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Japan's Claim - SCAPIN No.677 does
not define Japanes territory, but is an administrative
measure
-> SCAPIN No. 677 defines "Japan"
in terms of its territory and of the areas to be separated
from Japan and restored to the original owners. This definition
applies to Tokdo. |
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