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Sunday, May 07, 2006

Rocky Relations 

A feud over some barren islands reignites old tensions between South Korea and Japan

... According to a report by Peter Beck, the Northeast Asia project director for the International Crisis Group, "One would be hard pressed to find a single Korean over the age of five willing to admit that control of Dokdo does not matter." By contrast, says Hideshi Takesada, a professor of Korean politics at Japan's National Institute for Defense Studies, "most people in Japan have no knowledge of the issue," and little appreciation of how deep Korean resentment runs. ...

竹島問題の報道は、もう十分だとは思いますが、最後に、良くまとまった記事がありました。韓国では、竹島問題に無関心な五歳以上の児童(*)を探すのは難しい。一方、日本では殆どの人がこの問題について知識がないし、なぜ、韓国人がこれ程までに怒っているかをわかろうとしていない、と伝えています。(* 幼稚園で「独島はわが領土」という歌を児童に歌わせていることを言っている。)

TIME Asia Magazine

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