Analysis of Research Tendency on Dokdo in the Field of History Korea and Japan had several times of heated dispute with Dokdo issue. It first occurred when Korea declared Peace Line in 1952. Second was with the Peace Agreement in 1965. Discussion on international law of the sea concerning 200 Nautical Mile Exclusive Economic Zone came at third. The purpose of this study is to review existing studies of Japanese scholars. I also explored what changes, to keep pace with times, could be made on the existing arguments. For now, Japanese scholars have same opinion as Japanese Foreign Ministry on the territorial claims. 'Japanese scholars' here means nationalist scholars. In 1951 Japan studied on territorial sovereignty for the first time. Korea's declaration of Peace Line invited Japan to do that. Japan argued Dokdo was Japanese territory in either historically or in international law. Japan totally ignored any grounds which pointed Dokdo as Korean territory. Japan deliberately fabricated basis to paint Dokdo as Japanese territory. Kawakami Kenzo and Tamura Seizaburo can be named as representative scholars. They were the first ones to misrepresent the truth on Dokdo territorial sovereignty. Japanese government accepted their argument as it was. Despite of the 50 years of time, Japan's territorial claim has never changed. Even though new findings lead new theories, their studies were different from Dokdo's historical ground essentially. It was distorted history of Dokdo.
Analysis of Research Tendency on Dokdo in the Field of History
Korea and Japan had several times of heated dispute with Dokdo issue. It first occurred when Korea declared Peace Line in 1952. Second was with the Peace Agreement in 1965. Discussion on international law of the sea concerning 200 Nautical Mile Exclusive Economic Zone came at third. The purpose of this study is to review existing studies of Japanese scholars. I also explored what changes, to keep pace with times, could be made on the existing arguments. For now, Japanese scholars have same opinion as Japanese Foreign Ministry on the territorial claims. 'Japanese scholars' here means nationalist scholars.
In 1951 Japan studied on territorial sovereignty for the first time. Korea's declaration of Peace Line invited Japan to do that. Japan argued Dokdo was Japanese territory in either historically or in international law. Japan totally ignored any grounds which pointed Dokdo as Korean territory. Japan deliberately fabricated basis to paint Dokdo as Japanese territory. Kawakami Kenzo and Tamura Seizaburo can be named as representative scholars. They were the first ones to misrepresent the truth on Dokdo territorial sovereignty. Japanese government accepted their argument as it was. Despite of the 50 years of time, Japan's territorial claim has never changed. Even though new findings lead new theories, their studies were different from Dokdo's historical ground essentially. It was distorted history of Dokdo.