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People
claimingthatallthreeislands,includingDokdoandtwoother
[ProfessorHosaka’sresearch]
disputedislandsintheSenkakuIslands,areJapaneseterritory.
Itwasofficiallyopenedintimeforthe2021TokyoOlympics,
TheArgus:Whatresearchandactivitieshaveyou
when many foreigners would be visiting Japan, saying
beendoingaroundDokdo?
that “new evidence has been found that Dokdo is Japanese
Hosaka:IhavebeenresearchingDokdosince1998andhave
beendoingsofor25yearsnow.Ihavebeenresearchingboth
territory.” I am writing a paper on how wrong and distorted
theKoreanandJapanesesidesoftheDokdoterritorialclaims,
thatstatementis.
andIhavealsobeentoJapan,theU.S.,andAustralia,aswell
The Argus: In 2003, you were naturalized as a
asKorea,tofindnewdatasources.Ihavecollectedalotofold
Korean,butbeforethattime,youwereinterested
Japanese maps to see if Dokdo was ever shown on Japanese
inandresearchingDokdo.Iwouldliketoknowhowyou
mapshistorically,andifso,whoseterritoryitwas.Ihavealso
became interested in Dokdo so long ago and how you
collectedalotofimportantdocumentsfromtheU.S.archives
decidedtostartresearchingitinearnest.
to get a deeper understanding of what was at stake in the
Hosaka: My interest in Dokdo began in 1995. I was giving a
TreatyofSanFrancisco.
lecture on Japanese culture at a university in Korea, and I was
Based on our research so far, I have been giving lectures
an adjunct professor at the time. One student raised his hand
on Dokdo education at various organizations such as human
andaskedmeanoff-topicquestion,“Whatdoyouthinkabout
resource development centers and schools in Korea. I also
whether Dokdo is Japanese or Korean territory?” I think he
felt that it was necessary to educate the general public about
askedthatquestionbecausetheDokdoconflictwasverymuch
Dokdo, so I have appeared on various broadcasts, too. In
intheairatthetime.IansweredthatIdidnotknowmuchabout
particular, in a documentary special on KBS, I debated with
it,becauseIwasnotreallyinterestedinDokdo.Japanwasnot
one Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker named Yoshitaka
interested in Dokdo then, and most Japanese people are not
Shindo, who is the most prominent person who claims that
interested in Dokdo now. I promised the student that I would
DokdoisJapaneseterritory,andoverwhelmedhimwithlogic,
dosomeresearchonDokdoandgivehimananswer.Thatwas
makingthetruthofDokdoterritorialityclear.
the trigger for me to start researching Dokdo. After hearing
I have been to Dokdo about nine times to date, repeating
this story, my wife suggested that I should do some research
my observations
onDokdo.Overthenextthreeyears,Igraduallylearnedabout
Hosaka
and research. As
Dokdo through the Internet, and in 1998, I started reading
ⓒYuji
the director of the
papersandcollectingevidencetostudythedifferencesbetween
Dokdo Institute and
JapaneseandKoreanclaimstoDokdo.
a member of the
Dokdo Committee,
[ProfessorHosaka’sAttitudeTowardLife]
I feel responsible
for educating and
▲ Yuji Hosaka, an advisor to the Dokdo Task
TheArgus:Iassumeyouwillbecriticizedforyour
Force of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of
informing people
research and life by people around you and by
Korea, has been researching on Dokdo
that Dokdo is Korean
for 25 years.
Japanese public opinion. How have you responded to
territory.
suchcriticisms?
Hosaka: Until 2010, my papers and books were not widely
The Argus: What is your current research on
known. In Japan, people did not know what I was claiming
Dokdoandwhatissueshaveyoubeeninterested
that Dokdo is Korean
inlately?
Hosaka
territory was based
Hosaka:SinceMarchofthisyear,Ihavebeencollectingdata
and analyzing Japan’s claims about the “National Museum of
on, so they disliked
ⓒYuji
TerritoryandSovereignty,”whichIhavebeenfollowingsince
me quite a bit. They
its establishment in 2021. The National Museum of Territory
criticized me for
and Sovereignty was established in the center of Tokyo,
damaging Japanese
21
OCTOBER 2023
claimingthatallthreeislands,includingDokdoandtwoother
[ProfessorHosaka’sresearch]
disputedislandsintheSenkakuIslands,areJapaneseterritory.
Itwasofficiallyopenedintimeforthe2021TokyoOlympics,
TheArgus:Whatresearchandactivitieshaveyou
when many foreigners would be visiting Japan, saying
beendoingaroundDokdo?
that “new evidence has been found that Dokdo is Japanese
Hosaka:IhavebeenresearchingDokdosince1998andhave
beendoingsofor25yearsnow.Ihavebeenresearchingboth
territory.” I am writing a paper on how wrong and distorted
theKoreanandJapanesesidesoftheDokdoterritorialclaims,
thatstatementis.
andIhavealsobeentoJapan,theU.S.,andAustralia,aswell
The Argus: In 2003, you were naturalized as a
asKorea,tofindnewdatasources.Ihavecollectedalotofold
Korean,butbeforethattime,youwereinterested
Japanese maps to see if Dokdo was ever shown on Japanese
inandresearchingDokdo.Iwouldliketoknowhowyou
mapshistorically,andifso,whoseterritoryitwas.Ihavealso
became interested in Dokdo so long ago and how you
collectedalotofimportantdocumentsfromtheU.S.archives
decidedtostartresearchingitinearnest.
to get a deeper understanding of what was at stake in the
Hosaka: My interest in Dokdo began in 1995. I was giving a
TreatyofSanFrancisco.
lecture on Japanese culture at a university in Korea, and I was
Based on our research so far, I have been giving lectures
an adjunct professor at the time. One student raised his hand
on Dokdo education at various organizations such as human
andaskedmeanoff-topicquestion,“Whatdoyouthinkabout
resource development centers and schools in Korea. I also
whether Dokdo is Japanese or Korean territory?” I think he
felt that it was necessary to educate the general public about
askedthatquestionbecausetheDokdoconflictwasverymuch
Dokdo, so I have appeared on various broadcasts, too. In
intheairatthetime.IansweredthatIdidnotknowmuchabout
particular, in a documentary special on KBS, I debated with
it,becauseIwasnotreallyinterestedinDokdo.Japanwasnot
one Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker named Yoshitaka
interested in Dokdo then, and most Japanese people are not
Shindo, who is the most prominent person who claims that
interested in Dokdo now. I promised the student that I would
DokdoisJapaneseterritory,andoverwhelmedhimwithlogic,
dosomeresearchonDokdoandgivehimananswer.Thatwas
makingthetruthofDokdoterritorialityclear.
the trigger for me to start researching Dokdo. After hearing
I have been to Dokdo about nine times to date, repeating
this story, my wife suggested that I should do some research
my observations
onDokdo.Overthenextthreeyears,Igraduallylearnedabout
Hosaka
and research. As
Dokdo through the Internet, and in 1998, I started reading
ⓒYuji
the director of the
papersandcollectingevidencetostudythedifferencesbetween
Dokdo Institute and
JapaneseandKoreanclaimstoDokdo.
a member of the
Dokdo Committee,
[ProfessorHosaka’sAttitudeTowardLife]
I feel responsible
for educating and
▲ Yuji Hosaka, an advisor to the Dokdo Task
TheArgus:Iassumeyouwillbecriticizedforyour
Force of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of
informing people
research and life by people around you and by
Korea, has been researching on Dokdo
that Dokdo is Korean
for 25 years.
Japanese public opinion. How have you responded to
territory.
suchcriticisms?
Hosaka: Until 2010, my papers and books were not widely
The Argus: What is your current research on
known. In Japan, people did not know what I was claiming
Dokdoandwhatissueshaveyoubeeninterested
that Dokdo is Korean
inlately?
Hosaka
territory was based
Hosaka:SinceMarchofthisyear,Ihavebeencollectingdata
and analyzing Japan’s claims about the “National Museum of
on, so they disliked
ⓒYuji
TerritoryandSovereignty,”whichIhavebeenfollowingsince
me quite a bit. They
its establishment in 2021. The National Museum of Territory
criticized me for
and Sovereignty was established in the center of Tokyo,
damaging Japanese
21
OCTOBER 2023
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