{"id":356667,"date":"2026-02-24T15:32:45","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T10:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=356667"},"modified":"2026-02-24T15:32:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T10:02:45","slug":"takeshima-dokdo-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/takeshima-dokdo-islands\/","title":{"rendered":"Takeshima \/ Dokdo Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>News: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">South Korea recently protested a Japanese government-backed \u201cTakeshima Day\u201d event, calling it an unjust assertion of sovereignty.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>About Takeshima \/ Dokdo Islands<\/h2>\n<figure style=\"width: 383px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS4MMu5YK6XyKqWMsu3ZrMti50cAFAROMKKBw&amp;s\" alt=\"Map of Dokdo-Takeshima \" width=\"383\" height=\"264\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: ResearchGate<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is located in the <\/span><b>south-western part of the Sea of Japan.<\/b><\/li>\n<li>It is <b>known as Takeshima in Japan<\/b> and <b>Dokdo in South Korea.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is <\/span><b>215 kms from mainland Korea <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><b>250 kms from Japan.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li>It has also been known as the Liancourt Rocks, named by French whalers after their ship in 1849.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a group of islands, including the<\/span><b> two main islands, Mejima (Higashijima) Island and Ojima (Nishijima) Island<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>around 30 smaller rocks.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Administration:\u00a0<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is <\/span><b>currently administered by the Republic of Korea (ROK).\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Japan claims sovereignty over islands, and it <\/span><b>remains<\/b><b> \u2060a source of tension between Japan and South Korea<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> since long time.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Strategic and economic significance:<\/b> It is located in rich fishing waters and may also contain vast reserves of natural gas hydrate.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: South Korea recently protested a Japanese government-backed \u201cTakeshima Day\u201d event, calling it an unjust assertion of sovereignty. About Takeshima \/ Dokdo Islands It is located in the south-western part of the Sea of Japan. It is known as Takeshima in Japan and Dokdo in South Korea.\u00a0 It is 215 kms from mainland Korea and&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/takeshima-dokdo-islands\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Takeshima \/ Dokdo Islands<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,164,11211],"tags":[11872,10711],"class_list":["post-356667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","category-places-in-news","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-firstpost","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}