Monday, March 3rd, 2014
China has collected detailed topographic information and images of all its islands using aerial remote sensing, a method allowing the capture of data about objects from a distance. The completion of the project marks the country's first...
Monday, January 27th, 2014
Five old maps have gone on display in the southern Japanese city of Matsue, supposedly providing fresh evidence that islands held by South Korea and known as Dokdo are in fact Japanese territory. Tokyo claims the two...
Tuesday, November 6th, 2012
A group of Korean activists protested in front of the headquarters of Google and Apple in California on Friday against the two IT giants' policy on identifying Dokdo on their map services. The group of self-appointed "cyber diplomats,"...
Sunday, October 28th, 2012
South Korea said Sunday it would rename peaks on islands disputed with Japan in an attempt to reassert its sovereignty over the territory after a decades-long dispute flared up again this summer. The two main peaks at the...
Friday, October 26th, 2012
South Korea on Thursday lashed out at Google for changing the name of an isolated set of islands at the centre of a territorial dispute with Japan on its English-language web mapping service. The protest came as Seoul...
Monday, September 3rd, 2012
A team of Japanese surveyors yesterday sailed to a group of disputed islands in the East China Sea, the Diaoyutais, that the nationalistic governor of Tokyo wants to buy, with Beijing lodging a “serious protest” at the...
