Perhaps it seemed to me not only the short news of the London Olympics, pbs newshour youtube when a member of the South Korean football team punished, not to stand on the podium and received the bronze medal, which his team won (in addition to being against Japan). The reason that caught my attention was that at the end of the game someone from the audience gave him a billboard that he - rather than later testified - without pbs newshour youtube reading it hold up to millions of viewers have seen. The board said: "Dokdo is ours", and since the olimpiákról banned from politics for decades, the careless driver with a megszégyenítéssel pbs newshour youtube punished.
"Dokdo" pbs newshour youtube is a name of the island in the Sea of Japan, the Korean peninsula, height, roughly halfway between Japan and South Korea. Is not an island, but two large and many small, uninhabited piece of land, a tiny archipelago. Since the affiliation issue for decades, and in recent years this highly political debate has flared up between the two countries. The islands are Japanese Takeshimának ("bamboo island") are called the major Western member Otoko-jima (Male = island), is named after the East-jima Onna (Woman = island).
You do remember ismertetőmre on the Senkaku Islands from? Takeshima situation like this, but perhaps even more complex situation. (A third such issue archipelago in the Kuril Islands, which affiliation Japan and Russia debate, maybe someday also reached record pbs newshour youtube ...) The problem with these islands is that - as it is quite small - long before the sailors were not able to accurately identify them, so to speak-up about them. Without getting too complex into details (the substance found in the Japanese Foreign Ministry's website, available for download in several languages pdf format), as shown on the map, there are three smaller islands mingle here for centuries, moreover, all of them under another name in Japanese and Korean. The closer to Korea, or Ulleung Utsuryo definitely part of Korea as well as Japan closer Oki Islands. The problem is that, as the old sailors were not able to navigate accurately, it is Utsuryo (Korean Ulleung-do) called Takeshimának, today's Takeshima is Matsushimának. It maps made by Europeans then (in the 17-18, but the 19-th century) pbs newshour youtube appeared regularly mixed. (Or, given a new name, the "Liancourt Rocks" into an in 1849 he was shipwrecked French whaling ship, "Le Liancourt" to.) The discussion thus between the two islands, pbs newshour youtube halfway Japan Today known as Takeshima, pbs newshour youtube Dokdo is the Korean name archipelago.
The Japanese historical records are eager to prove that, in spite of European admixture they are always properly separated Utsuryot and Takeshima, former recognized pbs newshour youtube the latter, however, since the Meiji-era Japan's Shimane prefecture belonging considering Korea's part. Utsuryo to have the time shogunate in the 17th Since the beginning of the century Japanese fishermen were not allowed to go because of the aliens (particularly Koreans) live. However pbs newshour youtube Takeshimára (Matsushimának what it was called) in the Tsushima clan given permission kijárni and continued fishing activities there in two Japanese families.
After World War II Japan was under American control, when used in the Allied bombing Takeshima as a training ground until 1953. The 1951 San Francisco Peace Treaty (which forced Japan to Korea to return the occupied territories), not on Takeshima, it just west of the islands. In 1952, however, the Korean Prime Minister of the Sea of Japan, the so-called arbitrarily pulled. "Syngman Rhee Line," which Takeshimától to east of the island to Korea unilaterally attached. Then the Koreans and a permanent military post of lighthouse established in the Eastern islands, Onna-jima. pbs newshour youtube Since 1991, a Korean couple poliphalász to live as permanent residents on the island.
Japan outset quietly but firmly and consistently oppose the Korean "invasion", and constantly pbs newshour youtube trying to two-sided, and a higher international fora (such as the International Court of Justice) to challenge the one-sided Korean position. Without success, Korea's very own force represented by legal means unwilling to clarify the situation.
But why is this important to a small set of islands, some barren rock affiliation? Beyond the ideological and historical justice, economic considerations are not negligible: around Takeshima by the sea is rich in fish, and the cells are large natural gas reserves under the sea ...
The 37-piece, considered to be stable islet area of slightly more than 18 acres, the highest point (the Western Isles) 169 meters. Probably of volcanic origin, and about 4.5 million years ago may have occurred. Lejtőiket steep, rocky walls of their major forest or vegetation not covered with a soil layer is very thin, mostly covered with moss. Nevertheless, 49 species of plants, 93 species of insects, 107