일본의 아시아외교, 영토 그리고 독도문제

Abstract

This article analyzes Japan’s Asian foreign policies after World War Ⅱ and the Dokdo Problem between the Republic of Korea and Japan.Many countries including the South Korea in the region often criticize Japan's failure to accept responsibility for its imperial past. Increasingly anti-Japanese protests in China was an expression of discontents with a disputed junior high school history textbooks recently approved by the Japanese government, and Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi’s visit to the Yasukuni Shrine. This is a symbol of historical perception gaps on the past between Japan and its Asian neighbors’s.This year marks the 40th anniversary of the normalization of relations between Korea and Japan. Therefore, after enacting “Takeshima Day” ordinance by Shimane Prefecture, South Korean people marched to the Japanese Embassy in Seoul to protest, and at the same time Korean government announced a set of new principles to deal with Japan. As already examined in this research, Korea's sovereignty over the Dokdo is complete, and it is not an object of diplomatic negotiation. President Roh made it clearly in his letter to the people, it is necessary to respond to Japan’s illegal claims coolly, and to prepare plans for persuading international society minutely.