For the first time, an official map from the late Edo Period ... knowledge of Takeshima and considered the islets as Japan’s territory,” Funasugi said on Feb. 18. “The material carries ...

The islands have been a source of a longstanding territorial dispute between Japan and South Korea. The map in question shows Japanese territory in yellow and Korean territory in pink. The ...

And he's been dreaming of a return. Japan's government maintains that the four islands are an inherent part of Japanese territory, and that they have been occupied by Russia illegally since the ...

The Northern Territories issue has stood in the way of Japan and Russia concluding a peace treaty for decades. Toward the end of the war, the then-Soviet Union attacked the islands. At that time ...