{"id":41314,"date":"2026-02-22T09:04:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T09:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=41314"},"modified":"2026-02-22T09:04:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T09:04:26","slug":"south-korea-protests-japanese-event-over-disputed-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=41314","title":{"rendered":"South Korea protests Japanese event over disputed islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>South Korea on Sunday protested a Japanese government event commemorating a cluster of disputed islands between the two countries, calling the move an unjust assertion of sovereignty over its territory.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the foreign ministry said it strongly objected to the Takeshima Day event held by Japan&#8217;s Shimane prefecture and to the attendance of a senior Japanese government official, urging Japan to abolish the ceremony immediately.<\/p>\n<p>The tiny islets, known as Takeshima in Japan and Dokdo in South Korea, which are controlled by them, have long been a source of tension between the two neighbours, whose relations remain strained by disputes rooted in Japan&#8217;s colonial rule of the Korean peninsula from 1910 to 1945.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dokdo is clearly South Korea&#8217;s sovereign territory historically, geographically and under international law,&#8221; the ministry said, calling on Japan to drop what it described as groundless claims and to face history with humility.<\/p>\n<p>Read: South Korea probes civilians for sending drones to north, straining ties<\/p>\n<p>The ministry summoned a top Japanese diplomat to the ministry building in Seoul to protest.<\/p>\n<p>A person at Japan&#8217;s foreign ministry said no one was available on Sunday to comment. A call to the Prime Minister&#8217;s Office went unanswered. The government sent a vice-minister from the Cabinet Office, not a cabinet minister, to the ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>Seoul has repeatedly objected to Japan&#8217;s territorial claims over the islands, including a protest issued on Friday over comments by Japan&#8217;s foreign minister during a parliamentary address asserting Tokyo\u2019s sovereignty over the islets.<\/p>\n<p>The territory lies in fertile fishing grounds and may sit above enormous deposits of natural gas hydrate that could be worth billions of dollars, Seoul has said.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea on Sunday protested a Japanese government event commemorating a cluster of disputed islands between the two countries, calling the move an unjust assertion of sovereignty over its territory. In a statement, the foreign ministry said it strongly objected to the Takeshima Day event held by Japan&#8217;s Shimane prefecture and to the attendance of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}