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The tiny islets, known as Takeshima in Japan and Dokdo in South Korea, which controls them, have long been a source of tension between the two neighbours, whose relations remain strained by disputes rooted in Japan's colonial rule of the Korean peninsula from 1910 to 1945.

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[–] Hotznplotzn@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 month ago

'Welcome to CHINA' greets Philippine officials on trip to disputed South China Sea

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[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world -3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In a statement, the foreign ministry said it strongly objected to the Takeshima Day event held by Japan's Shimane prefecture

They're upset another country had a festival...

No fun allowed in Korea.

[–] iturnedintoanewt@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sure, a country celebrating an ownership festival over some island controlled by a different country. I wonder why the other country might be upset?

[–] Siegfried@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's a little worse than that.

Imaging Germany doing a festival conmemorating retaking the polish corridor... and not as a traditional festival but as something they started doing like in 2005.