Tokyo approves education guidelines that say Dokdo is Japanese territory

日 정부,초중생에 '독도 일본 땅' 의무 교육
Japan seems to have no plans to back down from its territorial claim to orea's easternmost island of Dokdo.
In its latest move, Tokyo has approved a revised set of guidelines for elementary and middle school students that say the Korea-controlled islets belong to Japan.
Connie Kim reports.

Japan is pushing forward with its claim to Korea's easternmost Dokdo Island.
The Japanese government on Friday approved a revised set of guidelines for elementary and middle school students that say Dokdo is Japanese territory.
The guidelines were posted online for public viewing last month, and will be added to the curriculum for elementary schools in 2020 and for middle schools in 2021.

In response, Seoul has strongly condemned Tokyo for the move.
Seoul's foreign ministry summoned Suzuki Hideo, a minister at the Japanese embassy in Seoul,... and issued a statement warning that future generations of Japanese children will learn false history.
The first time Japan mentioned the Dokdo row in the education arena was in 2008, when its education guidelines for middle schools stated that differences existed between Seoul and Tokyo surrounding Takeshima, Japan's name for Dokdo.
Japan's territorial claims over Korea's easternmost islands grew even stronger when Prime Minister Shinzo Abe won re-election in 2012.
In 2014, under Abe's government, Japan's education guidelines for middle and high school students... said that Seoul was illegally occupying Japanese territory, referring to Dokdo.
Last week, nearly 80-percent of the 24 new social studies textbooks approved for use in Japan... included the claim that Dokdo is Japanese territory.
Connie Kim, Arirang News.

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