This territorial dispute between Japan and South Korea over Takeshima is quite simple.
1. There is no historical fact that Korea had ever exercised any "effective control" over the islets prior to 1905.
2. Japan officially incorporated the islets in 1905 strictly following the procedures prescribed in the International law.
3. After the WW2, the Allies determined that Takeshima/Dokdo should remain Japanese territory in the San Francisco Peace Treaty in 1951.
4. Though the South Korean government had been informed of the determination by the U.S. government in those diplomatic documents like "Rusk documents", they ignored this international determination and started occupying the islets illegally from 1952.
Japan incorporated the islands under the administration of Okinawa. The Senkaku Islands dispute concerns a group of uninhabited islands which have been claimed by both the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China (Taiwan) since 1971. 尖閣諸島問題(せんかくしょとうもんだい)とは、正式に日本がそれらの島々を領有したが、中国(中華人民共和国)と台湾(中華民国)が、尖閣諸島に対して主権があると主張している問題である。なお日本側は領有権問題は存在しないとの立場であるが、中国および台湾側は領土問題であると主張しており、国際問題となっている。なお台湾側および中国側が尖閣諸島に対する領有権主張を公式に行ったのは1971年以降である。
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Suddenly, China was very interested in the Senkaku Islands and began insisting that the Islands belonged to China all along.
■ The Senkaku islands were not inhabited up to 1895. After a decade of deliberations, the Japanese government had decided to annex the Senkaku Islands and placed them under administrative rule by the Okinawan government on January 14, 1895. At the time, no countries had voiced their objections to the Japanese government's decision to annex the Senkaku Islands under the Okinawa rule. 尖閣諸島は1895年まで無人の諸島だった。その後1895年までの10年間、日本は注意深く尖閣列島の領有作業を行い、正式に1895年1月14日、沖縄県への編入が決まった。その頃はこの日本の行動にどの国も異を唱えなかったのである。 The geography textbooks, which had to be approved by the government, published in 1970 in Taiwan clearly showed the Senkaku Islands as a part of the Japanese territories. Then, these islands were placed under the control of the U.S. occupation forces following the Japan's surrender at the end of the WW II. In short, these islands have never been controlled by China up to present. 実際台湾の地理教科書にもこれらの島が日本の領土であると明記され、戦後の日本国とアメリカ合衆国との間の協定(沖縄返還協定)によりわが国に施政権が返還された地域の中にも、この尖閣諸島は明記されている。 In addition as another indication of this fact, the former President of the Republic of China, Lee Teng-hui, was also quoted in the Taipei Times newspaper, dated Sept. 6, 2009, that he had always considered the islands as a part of Okinawa. Then why and when China had started claiming about the islands as their own? また台湾総督府元総統である李登輝氏は、台北タイムズ(2009年9月6日)において、この尖閣諸島は日本沖縄の領土であることを述べている。では何故中国は尖閣諸島について領有権を言い出したのだろうか? It was after the UN investigation of the natural resources of the region, and their subsequent report of the findings of their investigation of the existence of abundant underground oil reservoir around Senkaku Islands in 1969.Suddenly, China was very interested in the Senkaku Islands and began insisting that the Islands belonged to China all along. 中国が尖閣諸島が自国の領土であると言い出したのは、国連の海底資源調査が1969年に行われ、海底に油田がある可能性が高いというレポートを知った後のことである。突然、中国は興味を持ち尖閣諸島は中国の領土であると強行に言い出したのである。 How can the Chinese government justify their actions to pursue the territorial rights over the Senkaku Islands completely disregarding all the historical facts of the region? If another country acted the same way like China has toward your country, how would you feel? In fact, China wants to control the East Turkistan too. Redundant China's hunger for its political and territorial control extends even to East Turkistan, where its people's struggles for independence from China continue to this day. このような中国の言い分や行動は正しいと言えるのか?もし他国がこのような手段であなたの国に接したら、あなたは実際どう思うだろうか?事実、中国は東トルキスタン、ウイグル自治区を紛れもない中国の領土だと言い張り、独立を認めず人権弾圧を行っているのだ。 There stands a building within the East Turkistan territory constructed by the Chinese earlier, which China claims to have built it during the ancient Chinese Kingdom period. Therefore, the East Turkistan belonged to China. The idea of propping up some buildings within the East Turkistan borders and professing that China had controlled the region from the ancient times to be the truth, thereby claiming that East Turkistan belonged to the Chinese is preposterous. 中国はそんな彼らの土地に建物を建て、「この建物は古来中国王朝からあった建物だ。この土地は昔から中国の支配下であった証拠である。だから、東トルキスタンは中国の領土だ」と宣言したそうだ。 However, a radiocarbon dating investigation has revealed that the same structure was constructed just 5 years ago, according to the President of the Japan Uyghur Association, Ilham Mahmut. Likewise, China's accusation of placing Japan at fault on the incidence of capturing of a Captain of a Chinese boat which occurred off shores of the Senkaku Islands on Sep. 7, 2010 has no merit. しかしながら、炭素時代測定器の計算ではたかだか5年ほど前に作られたものだと判明した。この話は日本ウイグル協会会長であるIlham Mahmut氏が語ったものである。 …………… ■The Washington Times By Bill Gertz September 15, 2010 http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/sep/15/inside-the-ring-145889960/ Inside the Ring has obtained a classified Chinese map that is likely to further muddy Beijing's territorial claims. The 1969 map, produced by the People's Republic of China map authority and labeled "confidential,"lists the islands as "Senkaku," the Japanese name, and contains a dividing line south of the islands indicating that they fall within Japanese territory. 2010年9月15日付けのワシントンタイムズ ビルゲイズ著 この汚い領土問題とも言える重要機密に属する地図を、中国で手に入れた人物がいる。1969年発行のその地図は中国政府が発行したもので、すでに「機密」という文字が入っている。そこにはこれらの諸島は、日本名でSENKAKUと書かれ、その南側に国境が引かれ、しっかりと日本の領海であることが明記されている。
William Elliot Griffis (September 17, 1843 – February 5, 1928) was an American orientalist, Congregational minister, lecturer, and prolific author.
Published works
1882 -- Corea, the Hermit Nation
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William Elliot Griffis, Corea the Hermit Nation, Kessinger, 2004.
ウィリアム・グリフィス『隠者の国・朝鮮』
This is a good specimen of Corean varnish-work carried into history. The rough facts are smoothed over by that well-applied native lacquer, which is said to resemble gold to the eyes. The official gloss has been smeared over more modern events with equal success, and even defeat is turned into golden victory. (pp. 150-151) これは朝鮮人による歴史の塗装作業の良い見本である。つらい現実には国産塗料を塗りたくり、黄金に見せかける。さらに後世の事件に対しても、公的な虚飾が巧妙に施され、敗戦すら輝かしい勝利に変えられる。
In the capital, as they had been along the road, the Dutchmen were like wild beasts on show. Crowds flocked to see the white-faced and red-bearded foreigners. They must have appeared to the natives as Punch looks to English children. The women were even more anxious than men to get a good look. Every one was especially curious to see the Dutchmen drink, for it was generally believed that they tucked their noses up over their ears when they drank. (p. 171) ソウルに護送されたオランダ人一行は、まるで見せ物の野獣のようだった。白い顔と赤い髭を持つこの外国人を見に、群衆が押し寄せた。男たちよりも女たちが、よく見える場所を確保しようと必死になった。誰もがオランダ人がものを飲むのを見たがった。西洋人はものを飲むとき、鼻を耳より上につまみ上げると信じられていたからである。
Chō-sen is represented as a human being, of whom the king is the head, the nobles the body, and the people the legs and feet. The breast and belly are full, while both head and lower limbs are gaunt and shrunken. The nobles not only drain the life-blood of the people by their rapacity, but they curtail the royal prerogative. The nation is suffering from a congestion, verging upon a dropsical condition of over-officialism. (p. 229) 朝鮮は人にたとえられ、王はその頭、貴族は胴、人民は足である。胸と腹は膨れる一方、頭と下肢はやせ細っている。貴族はその強欲で人民の生き血をすするのみならず、王の大権をも侵している。国は充血を起こし、官僚主義の浮腫を患っている。
The vocabulary of torture is sufficiently copious to stamp Chō-sen as still a semi-civilized nation. The inventory of the court and prison comprises iron chains, bamboos for beating the back, a paddle-shaped implement for inflicting blows upon the buttocks, switches for whipping the calves till the flesh is ravelled, ropes for sawing the flesh and bodily organs, manacles, stocks, and boards to strike against the knees and skin-bones. (p. 234)
After their marriage, the women are inaccessible. They are nearly always confined to their apartments, nor can they even look out in the streets without permission of their lords.So strict is this rule that fathers have on occasions killed their daughters, husbands their wives, and wives have committed suicide when strangers have touched them even with their fingers. (p. 245)
Corean architecture is in a very primitive condition. The castles, fortifications, temples, monasteries and public buildings cannot approach in magnificence those of Japan or China. The country, though boasting hoary antiquity, has few ruins in stone. The dwellings are tiled or thatched houses, almost invariably one story high. In the smaller towns there are not arranged in regular streets, but scattered here hand there. Even in the cities and capital the streets are narrow and tortuous. (p. 262)
The Corean rustic is, as a rule, illiterate. Probably only about four out of ten males of the farming class can read either Chinese or Corean, but counting in the women it is estimated that about eighty-five per cent of the people can neither read nor write, though the percentage varies greatly with the locality. (p. 444)
Corea has no samurai. She lacks what Japan has always had - a cultured body of men, superbly trained in both mind and body, the soldier and scholar in one, who held to a high ideal of loyalty, patriotism, and sacrifice for country. (p. 450)
Soon after Japan was defeated in WWII, Korean residents in Japan referred to themselves as being part of the Korean Occupation Forces, even though there was never any battle between Japan and Korea, and they committed all kind of atrocities such as rapes, violence, plunders, sudden assaults on police stations and illegal occupancy of Japanese property. There were outbreaks of similar acts in Korea.
2,000 members of the so-called Korean Occupation Forces attacked the Prime Ministers official residence in 1946. They were fully armed when they broke in. Japanese police requested help from the U.S. army, as the Japanese police were prohibited to possess guns at the time. Intense crossfire took place. Attacks on police officers were not rare occurrences at the time; for example during the Tomizaka Police attack, Koreans attacked police officers in order to break out prisoners. During the Shibuya Police office incident a policeman was killed. At the Taira incident a siege was conducted outside the police station.
30,000 Koreans stole impounded Japanese army uniforms and arms, before committing violent acts in most major cities, killing Japanese citizen indiscriminately. According to GHQ record, more than 4,000 Japanese were slain.
Without effective law and order after WWII Korean Forces acted violently. They fluently pillaged harvests, livestock, goods wagons, supermarkets and public storage utilities, stealing the goods and selling them on the black market for great profit as food and goods shortages were common at the time. They picked fights with passersby, skipped on restaurant bills, and committed rapes in broad daylight. The ordinary residents were seized with fear.
Without firearms police were sometimes unable to prevent offences. Perpetrators would say, We are the victorious nation. The defeated nation cannot do anything to us! and use violence on the policemen. One policeman who issued a warning was ganged up on by many Koreans, stripped and violated by having a nightstick inserted into his anus.
Koreans mainly controlled Ginza, Asakusa and Shinjuku. Taiwanese mainly controlled Shinbashi and Shibuya. The Government and police were distressed but struggled to act because of extraterritoriality. The US army was officially allowed to take goods from any store. Many luxury stores such as Shirakiya, a chain department store, and Seiko, a watch company, were victims. Koreans took advantage of the situation, claiming We are victorious nation. We are Korean Occupation Forces; accruing much money from steeling goods and selling them on the black market.
Only woman, children and old people were left in town as most Japanese men were on the battlefield at the time. Therefore the Koreans did whatever they wanted. They took the best commercial districts in town through surprise attack. Needless to say, they raped the woman who lived there, banishing them and occupying their land. When the Japanese began to take a dislike to them, then changed their names to Japanese ones in order to deny their origin.
For these reasons, they could occupy the most affluent areas and public places, setting up pachinko parlors, pubs and brothels in front of major public transport stations, registering the occupied property in their names.
Today 80% of pachinko parlors are Korean owned. It is said that the pachinko industry is worth three million yen annually, larger than the car industry. Owners often evade tax and send the money to the North Korea illegally. This is inexpedient for Japan. In fact, Kim Yong-il said We have nothing to worry about as long as pachinko parlors are in Japan. The reason why owners could behave like this and still do is because the police and politicians are bribed.
By 1950, martial law was finally proclaimed as the Koreans violence escalated extensively throughout Japan. The excuse they claimed was that General Douglas MacArthur closed down Korean organizations and schools when the GHQ left Japan. This wide-scale riot was not recorded in Japanese history. Even though martial law was declared, some Japanese were still murdered. The scene was similar to a battlefield in Tochigi or Asakusa.
However, these events are recorded in Korean school text books. They promote this as a great victory against the Japanese in protesting against racism and protecting Korean schools.
Douglas MacArthur said Korea is not a victorious nation, just a third party (Sangokujin). Although Korean resident in Japan often claim Sangokujin is a racist phrase, it is not racist at all. In fact, most Japanese believe that Sangokujin is not an appropriate word for them.
The Korean Occupation Forces created the Yakuza and Chongryon, the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, as the manager or controller of Korean organizations. Some members have entered politics under the communist party.
After GHQ left, the Koreans allied themselves with communism and forged history using money and intimidation over the Japanese mass media. They spread propaganda such as, we were forcibly taken. Our land was robbed by Japanese. We have been discriminated against. For this reason, the young Japanese generations, who are unaware of the Korean Occupation Force, have begun to have misplaced feelings of guilt for them.
A lot of Koreans have successfully infiltrated TV and newspaper companies. The pachinko industry pays large sums of money to TV Company for favorable publicity. Today, the Japanese mass media is not trustworthy, but the facts can be uncovered through research.