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national interests and said, “Even if you changed your
weather forecast for Japan. To sum up, it is not easy for
nationality to Korea, you are still Japanese.” However, as my
Japanese people to have the experience of feeling Dokdo as
papers and books gradually became known, this negative
theirterritory.
publicopinionbegantochange.
Sometimes,whenaJapanesegovernment-ledpollisreleased,
First of all, I started publishing books. In 2009 and 2010,
it may appear that a very large number of Japanese people
I published books in Korean about the contents of the San
say that Dokdo is Japanese territory. However, there is a big
Francisco Treaty and the Japan-Korea Agreement. From then
problemwiththemethodologyofthesepolls.Thefirstpollon
on, the criticism of me by Japanese people who could read
Dokdo was conducted in 2013, and it is not entirely reliable
Korean began to fade away. In 2012, as I mentioned before, I
becausethereasonswhyDokdoisJapaneseterritoryaregiven
hadadebatewithYoshitakaShindo,amemberoftheLiberal
up front, and the answers are given afterward, so it is a bit
Democratic Party, who is known as Japan’s expert on Dokdo,
morelikebrainwashing.
in a KBS documentary. In the process, Shindo realized that
There are not many media outlets that openly claim that
there was a logical loophole in calling Dokdo a Japanese
“DokdoisJapaneseterritory.”ThereisaJapaneseultraright
territory. Little by little, the Japanese realized that they could
newspaper, Sankei
JAPAN
notsimplycriticizemethroughhismouth.
Shimbun. Other
OF
In2016and2021,IwroteandpublishedabookaboutDokdo
newspapers are just
GOVERNMENT
in Japanese. Because I changed the Japanese language from
reporting objectively.
pre-moderntimestomoderntimes,Ireceivedalotofattention
TheJapanesemediais
from readers. Because of this, the Japanese media asked me
well-researchedbefore
THE
for interviews. I refute the Japanese government’s claims, but
reporting, making it
ⓒ
theycannoteasilycriticizemebecauseIbasemyclaimsonall
difficult for them to
▲ “National Museum of Territory and
theevidenceanddata.
be critical of Korea’s
Sovereignty,” established in 2021, is
located in the center of Tokyo, officially
claimstotheislands.
arguing Dokdo as Japanese territory.
[ProfessorHosaka’sFactCheck]
The Argus: What is the most common basis for
Japan’sclaimthatDokdoisitsterritory,andwhat
The Argus: How do the Japanese government,
isthetruth?
Hosaka: There is a document called the “Rusk Letter,”
people,media,etc.viewDokdo?
and on August 10, 1951, a month before the Treaty of San
Hosaka: The Japanese government has maintained its
position that Dokdo is Japanese territory, especially since
Francisco, the U.S., through Dean Rusk, then the U.S.
Japan’s Abe administration, a far-right party, came to power.
SecretaryofStatesentasecretdocumenttoKorea,butnotto
Even if the current Prime Minister, Kishida, does not have
any other country, stating that “Dokdo is Japanese territory.”
ultrarightleanings,theinfluenceoftheultrarightfromtheAbe
The document is now publicly available because the U.S.
administrationisstillhardtoignore.TheJapanesegovernment
declassified it after 25 years. Japan used the Rusk letter as
continuestoassertitspositionthatDokdoisJapaneseterritory
a way to argue that the U.S. had made Dokdo a Japanese
through actions such as the “National Museum of Territory
territory.ThereisnodirectmentionofDokdointheTreatyof
and Sovereignty,” and refuses to release any documents that
San Francisco, but because the Rusk Letter, which we know
contradictit.
was the foundation of the Treaty of San Francisco, says that
Basically, there are very few people in Japan who care
DokdoisJapaneseterritory,andbecauseitinformedSyngman
about Dokdo. The majority of Japanese people do not care
Rhee’s regime at the time, that Dokdo is Japanese territory
because they hardly ever see Dokdo. In Korea, they see
under the Treaty of San Francisco, that is the core of Japan’s
Dokdo every day in the weather forecast, even indirectly,
argument.
but not in Japan. A weather forecast is made for a place
The official U.S. view at the time was that it was not part
where people from your own country live. Since there are
of the drafting of the San Francisco Treaty at all, that it was
no Japanese people living in Dokdo, there cannot be any
an independent view of the U.S. military, and that it was
22
www.theargus.org
national interests and said, “Even if you changed your
weather forecast for Japan. To sum up, it is not easy for
nationality to Korea, you are still Japanese.” However, as my
Japanese people to have the experience of feeling Dokdo as
papers and books gradually became known, this negative
theirterritory.
publicopinionbegantochange.
Sometimes,whenaJapanesegovernment-ledpollisreleased,
First of all, I started publishing books. In 2009 and 2010,
it may appear that a very large number of Japanese people
I published books in Korean about the contents of the San
say that Dokdo is Japanese territory. However, there is a big
Francisco Treaty and the Japan-Korea Agreement. From then
problemwiththemethodologyofthesepolls.Thefirstpollon
on, the criticism of me by Japanese people who could read
Dokdo was conducted in 2013, and it is not entirely reliable
Korean began to fade away. In 2012, as I mentioned before, I
becausethereasonswhyDokdoisJapaneseterritoryaregiven
hadadebatewithYoshitakaShindo,amemberoftheLiberal
up front, and the answers are given afterward, so it is a bit
Democratic Party, who is known as Japan’s expert on Dokdo,
morelikebrainwashing.
in a KBS documentary. In the process, Shindo realized that
There are not many media outlets that openly claim that
there was a logical loophole in calling Dokdo a Japanese
“DokdoisJapaneseterritory.”ThereisaJapaneseultraright
territory. Little by little, the Japanese realized that they could
newspaper, Sankei
JAPAN
notsimplycriticizemethroughhismouth.
Shimbun. Other
OF
In2016and2021,IwroteandpublishedabookaboutDokdo
newspapers are just
GOVERNMENT
in Japanese. Because I changed the Japanese language from
reporting objectively.
pre-moderntimestomoderntimes,Ireceivedalotofattention
TheJapanesemediais
from readers. Because of this, the Japanese media asked me
well-researchedbefore
THE
for interviews. I refute the Japanese government’s claims, but
reporting, making it
ⓒ
theycannoteasilycriticizemebecauseIbasemyclaimsonall
difficult for them to
▲ “National Museum of Territory and
theevidenceanddata.
be critical of Korea’s
Sovereignty,” established in 2021, is
located in the center of Tokyo, officially
claimstotheislands.
arguing Dokdo as Japanese territory.
[ProfessorHosaka’sFactCheck]
The Argus: What is the most common basis for
Japan’sclaimthatDokdoisitsterritory,andwhat
The Argus: How do the Japanese government,
isthetruth?
Hosaka: There is a document called the “Rusk Letter,”
people,media,etc.viewDokdo?
and on August 10, 1951, a month before the Treaty of San
Hosaka: The Japanese government has maintained its
position that Dokdo is Japanese territory, especially since
Francisco, the U.S., through Dean Rusk, then the U.S.
Japan’s Abe administration, a far-right party, came to power.
SecretaryofStatesentasecretdocumenttoKorea,butnotto
Even if the current Prime Minister, Kishida, does not have
any other country, stating that “Dokdo is Japanese territory.”
ultrarightleanings,theinfluenceoftheultrarightfromtheAbe
The document is now publicly available because the U.S.
administrationisstillhardtoignore.TheJapanesegovernment
declassified it after 25 years. Japan used the Rusk letter as
continuestoassertitspositionthatDokdoisJapaneseterritory
a way to argue that the U.S. had made Dokdo a Japanese
through actions such as the “National Museum of Territory
territory.ThereisnodirectmentionofDokdointheTreatyof
and Sovereignty,” and refuses to release any documents that
San Francisco, but because the Rusk Letter, which we know
contradictit.
was the foundation of the Treaty of San Francisco, says that
Basically, there are very few people in Japan who care
DokdoisJapaneseterritory,andbecauseitinformedSyngman
about Dokdo. The majority of Japanese people do not care
Rhee’s regime at the time, that Dokdo is Japanese territory
because they hardly ever see Dokdo. In Korea, they see
under the Treaty of San Francisco, that is the core of Japan’s
Dokdo every day in the weather forecast, even indirectly,
argument.
but not in Japan. A weather forecast is made for a place
The official U.S. view at the time was that it was not part
where people from your own country live. Since there are
of the drafting of the San Francisco Treaty at all, that it was
no Japanese people living in Dokdo, there cannot be any
an independent view of the U.S. military, and that it was
22
www.theargus.org
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