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A note verbale of protest from the Government of Japan to the Government of the ROK on January 28, 1952, in response to a declaration concerning maritime sovereignty by the President of the ROK, Syngman Rhee.

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Furthermore, in the proclamation the Republic of Korea appears to assume territorial rights over the islets in the Japan Sea known as Takeshima (otherwise known as Liancourt Rocks). The Japanese Government does not recognize any such assumption or claim by the Republic of Korea concerning these islets which are without question Japanese territory.

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Document title A note verbale of protest from the Government of Japan to the Government of the ROK on January 28, 1952, in response to a declaration concerning maritime sovereignty by the President of the ROK, Syngman Rhee.
Date created (Western calendar) January 28, 1952
Date created (Japanese era) January 28, Showa 27
Author(s) / Editor(s) Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Government of Japan
Publisher Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Republic of Korea
Name of publication Collections of Dokdo-related Materials (I)
The Diplomatic Correspondence (1952-76)
Content On January 18, 1952, the ROK unilaterally established the "Syngman Rhee Line", and claimed Korean fisheries jurisdiction over the vast body of water inside the line encompassing Takeshima. In response to this, Japan protested by a note verbal sent to the Government of the ROK on January 28. In the note, the Government of Japan strongly protested against the Government of the ROK, stating "in the proclamation the Republic of Korea appears to assume territorial rights over the islets in the Japan Sea known as Takeshima (otherwise known as Liancourt Rocks). The Japanese Government does not recognize any such assumption or claim by the Republic of Korea concerning these islets, which are without question Japanese territory."
In the first part of this note, the Japanese Government strongly criticized this unilateral proclamation by the President of the ROK stating, "entirely incompatible with the long internationally established principle of freedom of the high seas," and running "counter to the basic principle of international cooperation for the development and protection on an equal footing of the marine resources of the high seas."
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