Korean dry cleaners in NYC using plastic bags to address claims against Japan
SOURCE: NYT (3-20-09)
“Dokdo Island is Korean territory,” the ad [printed on the plastic dry cleaning bag] declared. “The Japanese government must acknowledge this fact.”
To understand the message on the bag is to go back more than a century, to the beginning of an emotional land dispute between Japan and Korea.
The conflict is over a cluster of barely inhabitable islets and reefs in the sea between the countries — called Dokdo in South Korea and Takeshima in Japan — and much more, especially the legacy of Japan’s colonial occupation of Korea.
To understand the message on the bag is to go back more than a century, to the beginning of an emotional land dispute between Japan and Korea.
The conflict is over a cluster of barely inhabitable islets and reefs in the sea between the countries — called Dokdo in South Korea and Takeshima in Japan — and much more, especially the legacy of Japan’s colonial occupation of Korea.
Source:
NYT
Source URL:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/21/nyregion/21islands.html?scp=1&sq=fahim%20korea&st=cse
Date:
3-20-09
