Japan And South Korea Dispute Ownership Over The Takeshima - Dokdo Islands

Ted Galen Carpenter, National Interest: The Island Dispute No One Is Talking About

While the South China Sea and Senkaku Island disputes are all the rage these days, South Korea and Japan's conflict could be equally consequential.

Acrimonious territorial disputes between East Asian nations involving largely uninhabited islands are nothing new, and they have received an abundance of attention from foreign policy officials and the news media. But nearly all the attention has focused on China’s quarrels with Vietnam, the Philippines, and other neighbors regarding the South China Sea, or on the even more dangerous confrontation between China and Japan over the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands in the East China Sea.

WNU Editor: They are just two small rocks jutting out from the sea .... but they obviously carry a deep symbolic and geographic importance to both countries.

More News On Japan And South Korea Disputing Ownership Of The Takeshima - Dokdo Islands

2 rocks at center of Japan, South Korea decades-old dispute -- Stars and Stripes/Bloomberg
Japan calls for return of isles from South Korea -- AFP
Japanese Ceremony Promotes Tokyo’s Claim to Islets, Angering Seoul -- WSJ
S. Korea condemns Japan's Dokdo ceremony -- Yonhap news
South Korea summons Japanese diplomat to protest Takeshima ceremony -- Japan Times