I Love… Dokdo?

Time to give you a little insight into the region where Kiko and I are living.

Japan wasn’t exactly the most popular country right after World War II. After invading the rest of Asia (to save it from the whiteys… who else?) many of the regions they had taken over were being claimed by various countries. (Mostly China, Korea etc…)

Fast forward to 2005. There is this tiny little ass island called Takeshima in Japanese, and Dokdo in Korean. Now Japan (The Country) claims it as their own island, while Korea claims it as theirs. For some unknown reason Korea got a little excited about this and made a big deal about it. After 3 Korean people cutting their fingers off, 40 Korean’s moving to the island, Korean TV Shows & Movies about Imperial Japan, and 130million Japanese people going "… we have an island called Takeshima?"  Read, learn, and become smarter here.

edited: Wow. After a little searching I found this. Koreans seem pretty excited about these rocks. Welcome to Cyber Dokdo.

I am proud to present my "I love Dokdo" shirt from my very good friends Chris and Lianne in Korea.

I wear it around Japan, but they just laugh. They cannot fathom why there are "I love Dokdo" goods selling in Korea, and the average Japanese person would be more than happy to give it back…

 … and yes those are I love Dokdo socks and a pencil case.