2 in 3 Japanese remain interested in South Korea-held Takeshima islets

Roughly two in three Japanese remain interested in the territorial dispute over a pair of South Korea-controlled, Japan-claimed islets in the Sea of Japan, little changed from 2019, a recent government survey showed.The remote islets, called Takeshima in Japanese and Dokdo in Korean, drew interest from 63.6 percent in the survey conducted between November and December of last year, compared with 63.7 percent in the previous survey conducted between September and October of 2019.The latest poll found older people were more likely to pay attention to the rocky islets, whose ownership has been…READ FULL ARTICLE