The tiny islets, known as Takeshima in Japan and Dokdo in South Korea, which controls them, have long been a source of tension between the two neighbours, whose relations remain strained by disputes rooted in Japan’s colonial rule of the Korean peninsula from 1910 to 1945.

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    2 days ago

    Sure, a country celebrating an ownership festival over some island controlled by a different country. I wonder why the other country might be upset?

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      It’s a little worse than that.

      Imaging Germany doing a festival conmemorating retaking the polish corridor… and not as a traditional festival but as something they started doing like in 2005.