Abe offers solution to the Takeshima problem, Korean/Japanese relations in Vancouver and other islet dispute crap

It’s been a while since a Takeshima/Dokdo update, hasn’t it?

A few days ago, soon-to-be Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met with South Korea’s foreign minister(and possibly the next UN secretary general) Ban Ki Moon. Abe claims that he proposed a framework for the resolution of the territorial dispute over the islets. The article that contains this information offers no details, nor has foreign minister Ban issued any statements about this. I guess we can assume that there won’t be a resolution anytime soon?

Meanwhile, an article over at westender.com mentions the friendly relations between the Japanese and Korean communities in Vancouver. Some Koreans are even volunteering to help out in a Japanese street festival. However, the other notes that the mention of the word “Dokdo” can still lead to heated arguments. The article also notes that Japanese students learn “nothing at all” about Japan’s past in school.

Today’s Korea Herald reports that Korean and Japanese officials will meet next month to “demarcation of their respective economic zones.” Can we actually expect the talks to accomplish anything?

Finally, here are some images of what appears to be Korean students visiting famous sites in Japan (found on a Japanese forum a couple months ago, date of pictures unknown). It would be disgraceful for them to simply enjoy their trip to Japan without making a statement about how Dokdo belongs to Korea and not Japan, so they brought huge propaganda banners with them. Here are a few of the pictures:

That’ll teach the Japanese government to give up it’s claim on Dokdo!