Doh See-hwan

This year marks the 80th anniversary of liberation, when Korea regained its sovereignty after Japan's 1910-45 colonial occupation, and the 60th anniversary of the normalization of diplomatic relations between Korea and Japan. However, Japan's provocation of encroachment on Dokdo, a symbol of Korea's territorial sovereignty, is still ongoing. The Japanese “Takeshima Issue Research Group,” which has been sending out Japan's claim to Dokdo, has begun to denigrate the 1877 Daijokan Directive of the Meiji government, which recognized Korea's sovereignty over Dokdo, and the Japanese Territorial Sovereignty Exhibition Hall is currently undergoing a large-scale remodeling project with a budget of 10 billion won ($6.96 million).

The background to this trend is that 2025 is the 120th anniversary of Japan's invasion of Dokdo, and the 20th anniversary of the enactment of "Takeshima Day" in Shimane Prefecture, Japan, which was founded to commemorate the 100th anniversary in 2005. Moreover, the seriousness of the problem is revealed in that Japan's attempt to invade Dokdo based on its imperialist aggression in 1905 has been openly expanded and reproduced to the present day, 120 years later, running counter to the establishment of a community of peace in Northeast Asia.

Under such awareness of the problem, I looked deeply into the essential problem of the distortion of the principles of international law in Japanese claims to Dokdo raised by mobilizing international law. Through this, I tracked and identified the problems that the Japanese colonialism inherent in the title study of international law at the Japanese Society of International Law, which has established the policy foundation of the Japanese government's claims, and the "violence and greed" in the Cairo Declaration, which first declared Korea's independence in 1943, are not only being coincident as an essential substance but also leading to result in the distortion........

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