An archival collection of over 1,400 pages based on original documents detailing information of Japanese germ warfare units have been published for the first time in China.
Wednesday, 2 June 2021
The Korean Sport and Olympic Committee (KSOC) has sent a letter to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to pressure Japan to remove a reference to South Korea-controlled islands as Japanese territory on the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games website.
The KSOC has sent a letter asking the IOC to actively mediate the ongoing dispute.
Known neutrally as the Liancourt Rocks - as named by French whalers in 1849 - Japan and South Korea both claim the islands as their own territory, as well as North Korea.
South Korea controls the islands, which are known as Dokdo in the country, while Japan refers to them as Takeshima.
On my mother’s side (Japanese), my grandfather is Nisei (second generation) while my grandmother is Sansei (third generation). On my father’s side (Filipino), my grandparents are first generation to the U.S.; so depending on the grandparent, that makes me,