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Charles wrote:Why move to a deserted tropical island when you could have a fully developed commercial property all to yourself, like Gunkanjima?
FG Lurker wrote: There is English text about it here:
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/saiga/yuji/gallary/gunsu/g-text-e.html
Weird place.
Watcher wrote:I first learned of that island from some very bizarre Twilight-Zone-ish J-Drama a few years ago. Did anyone else watch it? Never quite made it out to Nagasaki so never got to the ghost island (looks like travel there is banned anyway).
Watcher wrote:I first learned of that island from some very bizarre Twilight-Zone-ish J-Drama a few years ago. Did anyone else watch it? Never quite made it out to Nagasaki so never got to the ghost island (looks like travel there is banned anyway).
Charles wrote:Why move to a deserted tropical island when you could have a fully developed commercial property all to yourself, like Gunkanjima?
washtimes.com wrote:While Tokyo and Seoul have an overriding interest in disarming North Korea's nuclear program they also have their differences -- none so bitter as the dispute over "Tok-do" island, referred to by the Japanese as "Takeshima." ... [Japanese Ambassador to South Korea] Takano will brief Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's government on Seoul's position on the issue and the deteriorating atmosphere in South Korea. ... While the Korean government hopes the Japanese ambassador might play a constructive role, analysts don't place much hope on Takano's trip since he claimed that Tok-do was "Japanese territory" on Feb. 23. Seoul can take cold comfort in the fact that Tokyo is also disputing possession of the Kurile Islands with Russia and the Senkaku Islands with China and Taiwan ... more
SMH wrote:Not happy, Japan ... South Korean protesters throw paper planes at the Japanese embassy in Seoul. Japanese lawmakers passed a bill on March 16 claiming a small island chain controlled by South Korea, in defiance of Seoul's warnings that the dispute had set back reconciliation between the two countries.
Photo: AFP
kurohinge1 wrote:SMH wrote:Not happy, Japan ... South Korean protesters throw paper planes at the Japanese embassy in Seoul. Japanese lawmakers passed a bill on March 16 claiming a small island chain controlled by South Korea, in defiance of Seoul's warnings that the dispute had set back reconciliation between the two countries.
Photo: AFP
Be Alert But Not Alarmed. There may be squadrons of Korean paper planes grouping off the coast ...
dimwit wrote: Does anyone have a good backgrounder on the history of that rock (Senkaku)? How do the Japanese and Chinese claims look in terms of legitamacy?
LA Times via Newsday.com wrote:A Cluster of Rocks Erupts Into a Mountain of Emotion in S. Korea
The barren islets are claimed by two nations. Japan's latest move has some Koreans seething.
The Los Angeles Times, March 17, 2005 SEOUL
<snip> ... "On the face of it, this is a silly, silly issue, but it is really a needle that reaches into a very deep place in the Korean psyche," said Michael Breen, author of the book "The Koreans." "There is a feeling that the Japanese still haven't done what is necessary to distance themselves from their colonial past."
Almost everything about the islets is contentious, starting with the name. South Korea calls them Dokdo]..more...[/url]
26 Japanese register Takeshima 'domicile'
By REIJI YOSHIDA
Twenty-six Japanese have registered their family domicile origins on a group of disputed islets in the Sea of Japan under South Korea's control, the government revealed Tuesday.
Seoul has lodged a protest with Tokyo over the move. It claims the islets, known as Takeshima in Japan and called Tok-do by South Korea, are part of South Korean territory.
The "honseki" family domicile origin is the place where the family register is recorded on paper at the local government level. Unlike resident registration, a Japanese national can choose any address for honseki, regardless of their current place of residence...the government also revealed Tuesday that another 18 Japanese have registered as their domicile origin the Senkaku chain in the East China Sea.
The uninhibited islets are controlled by Japan but are claimed by China and Taiwan.
Separately, 122 Japanese registered domicile origins on Okinotorishima Island, the nation's southernmost territory, the government said in a written answer to Iwakuni.
dimwit wrote: ... In fact, I think that they should be forced to live there as it is there place of residence. Tips for Okinotorishima - bring your lifejacket. My guess is that if you forced them to live there the streets of many a Japanese Metropolis would be quieter due to lack of rightists being able to staff their trucks.
China Thursday expressed anger with several Japanese citizens' registration of permanent addresses on the Diaoyu Islands, saying that China "will never accept" any of Japan's unilateral moves on the islands.
The Japanese government announced Tuesday that 18 Japanese citizens have registered permanent addresses on the islands, a group of islets in the East China Sea.
Asked to comment on the issue, Kong said China's stance on the Diaoyu Islands was "clear and consistent."
"I reiterate that the Diaoyu and surrounding islands have been parts of the Chinese territory since ancient times. China holds indisputable historical and lawful evidence on the issue," he said.
He said any unilateral move taken by Japan on the Diaoyu Islands is a serious infringement on China's territorial sovereignty and is "unlawful and invalid."
"China firmly opposes such moves and will never accept them," Kong told a regular press briefing.
(Full Story)
Most South Koreans distrust Japan, fond of China - poll
Reuters India
ABC Asia Pacific wrote:Japan is reportedly preparing to send a boat to conduct a survey around a group of islands that are also claimed by South Korea.
The Kyodo news agency says a coast guard vessel will leave Japan on Thursday for the disputed islets, called Dokdo in South Korea and Takeshima in Japan.
The Japanese coast guard has not confirmed the report.
South Korea has warned it would prevent any Japanese vessel from entering its exclusive economic zone without approval.
Kyodo says the vessel is currently on its way to the port of Sakaiminato, in southeast Japan, from where it will depart for the islands in the Sea of Japan.
It says the boat will take measurements for creating a hydrographic map of the survey area near the disputed islands.
An anti-Japan protester, Yang Bong-ho, stabs himself in the stomach with a kinfe to commite suicide demanding Japan abandon a plan to conduct a maritime survey near disputed islets, at a park in Seoul, Wednesday, April 19, 2006. Yang's condition was unknown after being taken to hospital.
Mulboyne wrote:... AP via Yahoo... An anti-Japan protester, Yang Bong-ho, stabs himself in the stomach with a kinfe to commite suicide demanding Japan abandon a plan to conduct a maritime survey near disputed islets ...
kurohinge1 wrote:
Oppose your enemy by ... killing yourself?
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