A 1:2,000,000 aerial navigation map developed by the U.S. Air Force in 1954, which is kept at the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, shows a dotted line representing the Japan-South Korea border between the Takeshima islets, or Liancourt Rocks, and nearby Ullung-do island. (Provided by the Japan Institute of International Affairs)
SEOUL South Korea summoned Japan’s deputy ambassador on Tuesday to protest over a map on the Tokyo Olympics website that showed a set of South Korea-controlled islands as Japanese territory.
The small islands, called Dokdo in South Korea and Takeshima in Japan, have been at the center of a decades-long territorial dispute between the two countries.