The Dokdo/Takeshima controversy : study based on historical materials /

Park, Byoung-sup, 1942-

The Dokdo/Takeshima controversy : study based on historical materials / Park Byoung-sup and Naitō Seichū ; translated by the National Assembly Library, Republic of Korea. - Seoul, Korea : National Assembly Library, c2009 - 363 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

SIP1522 Originally published in Japanese (Shinkansha, 2007). Includes the original Japanese text of A Memorandum Concerning the Arrival of a Korean Boat to the Seashore in the 9th Year of the Genroku (1696).

Draws on original documents to discuss the historical background of the recurrent territorial dispute over Dokdo/Takeshima (aka Tok Island), which is geographically located between Japan and Korea but which has been controlled by Korea since the end of World War II.


Japan--foreign policy--diplomacy--history--border conflicts--South Korea--Tok Island