Tsushima to South Korea: “Sorry, we aren’t South Korean territory”
So Japan says the disputed Liancourt Rocks are Japanese territory. How do South Koreans react? Why, by claiming the undisputed Japanese territory of Tsushima as Korean land, of course! From the Japan Times:
NAGASAKI (Kyodo) The city assembly of Tsushima, Nagasaki Prefecture, adopted a unanimous resolution Thursday demanding the South Korean city of Masan repeal its ordinance that claims Japan’s Tsushima Islands as South Korean territory.
In March 2005, the municipal assembly of Masan in South Gyeongsang Province designated June 19 as “Daemado Day,” commemorating the dispatch of Korean forces to Tsushima on that day in 1419. The Japanese islands lying between the two countries are known as Daemado in Korean.
Although Tsushima has stayed silent over the matter, some assembly members have begun voicing their concerns amid strained bilateral ties between Japan and South Korea in part over former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi’s visits to the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine, assembly members said.
Masan’s ordinance came as a tit-for-tat step shortly after the Shimane Prefectural Assembly in March 2005 designated Feb. 22 as “Takeshima Day” to press Japan’s claims to South Korean-held rocky outcroppings known by the South as Dokdo, stirring outrage in South Korea.
Skipping the part about Takeshima/Dokdo, here’s the rest:
Some Tsushima assembly members have been cautious about their resolution, however, hoping it will not further complicate bilateral strains, they said.
The Masan ordinance says it is designed to have people at home and abroad recognize that Tsushima is South Korean territory with common historic and cultural backgrounds and hence a territorial right, but the Japanese city sees no historical grounds in the claim, city officials said.
The Tsushima resolution says the claim in the Masan ordinance is groundless and an imprudent view.
One city official expressed concern that the assembly’s move may have a negative impact on tourism to the islands.
Yeah, asserting that one’s own island, which has been Japanese territory since the 6th century, is not Korean, is a risky move! Watch out guys!
If you haven’t read them, be sure to check out my posts about Japanese media coverage of Koreans & Tsushima. (Part One and Part Two).
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Don’t be silly. Koreans don’t actually believe Tsushima is Korean. This is just to spite those who support “Takeshima Day.”
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Koreans are idiots.. they think they are the center of the universe.. they need to wake up.. just another move in a long line of stupid things they think and do…
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All of Japan is Korean territory, because all Japanese are descended from Koreans and Koreans invented everything ever invented.
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Most of Japanese are proved to be from Central Asia by DNA analysis. Certainly, Koreans invented something. It’s history!
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No Japanese have a mixture of genetic background… some did come from Central asia but also east asia, and later it seems that several thousand years before the present, a small number of proto-Korean Y-chromosome patrilines crossed from Korea into the Japanese Archipelago, where they now comprise a very significant fraction of the male lineages extant among the Japanese and Ryukyuan populations. These patrilines seem to have experienced extensive genetic admixture with the long-established Jomon Period populations of Japan. So the Japanese do have a lot of Korean lineage.
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