Japan prepares to take the Takeshima issue to the ICJ despite South Korean opposition; Tokyo metropolitan govt sends investigative team to the Senkkaus
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  • Japan has decided to accelerate effort to unilaterally take its territorial dispute with South Korea over the Takeshima islands to the International Court of Justice (ICJ), although Seoul has strongly protested Tokyo’s move in this regard. 1 In the meantime, while reiterating South Korea’s sovereignty over the Dokdo (Takeshima islands), Seoul claimed as there was no territorial dispute, it could not accept Japanese government’s proposal to take up the issue at the ICJ. 2

    In another development, the Tokyo metropolitan government had recently sent a 25 member investigative team to the Senakau islands, over which Japan, China and Taiwan claims their own sovereignty. As Tokyo government plans to purchase three islands of the Senkaku islets from its private owner, the team which basically comprised of real estate appraiser and marine policy researchers, carried out investigations to determine a purchase price and evaluate how the Tokyo government could use those islands. Although Tokyo government demanded Central government’s permission to land on the islands, 3 the latter rejected that demand4 as it did not want to evoke a strong reaction from China on that issue. 5

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