A Territorial Dispute over Takeshima: Points at Issue09-28-2022Author : Takashi Tsukamoto

The government of the Empire of Korea responded that there was absolutely no basis to the claim concerning the territory of Dokdo and ordered the Province to study and report the status of the island and what the Japanese were doing there; and (5) According to a document written by Yozaburo NAKAI (“Jigyo Keiei Gaiyo” (Outline of Business Management)), he traveled to Tokyo to appeal to the resident. [...] However, it is also possible that the Ministry of Home Affairs and Dajokan thought differently and the response by Dajokan did not refer to present-day Takeshima because the Ministry of Home Affairs, as the grounds of its proposal, only referred to the records of the Japan-Korean negotiations at the end of the 17th century and the subsequent prohibition of travel to Ulleungdo, and also because, in. [...] Also, in the survey conducted in 1899 by another official (U Yong-jeong), and in the proposal for the ordinance submitted by the Minister of the Interior, the target area is clearly stated in the form of length and width and Japan’s Takeshima was out of scope.20 If it were to be the case that “Seokdo” as it appears in the ordinance were in fact Takeshima, while effective possession (so-called effe. [...] These include, in addition to the stationing of military personnel, colonization, and the establishment of government offices, the application of the country’s laws and regulations to the territory in question, taxation of the land and economic activities thereon, and investigation and trial of incidents that occur therein (effective possession, effective control).26 The occupation of the land by. [...] However, Japan came to have definite territorial rights over Takeshima through the measures it took to incorporate Takeshima into Japanese territory in 1905 (the intention of possession and the ratification by the state of the act of possession by Japanese people) and the series of subsequent display of state authority, including the inclusion of Takeshima in the ledger of state-owned land (May 19.