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South Koreans rally against Japan

2012-03-29 16 Dailymotion

(ROUGH CUT ONLY - NO REPORTER NARRATION)<br/> <br />South Korean demonstrators rallied on Thursday (March 29) to protest against Japan's new high school textbook that contains a territorial claim to disputed islands called Dokdo in Korea and Takeshima in Japan.<br/> <br />The Japan's education ministry approved new school textbooks on Tuesday (March 27) .<br/> <br />The question of sovereignty has long been a sore point in relations between the two neighbours, after Japan colonised the Korean peninsula from 1910 to 1945.<br/> <br />Japan and South Korea have both claimed historical rights to the cluster of rocks which have little obvious economic value but are in the midst of fishing grounds and may sit above valuable deposits of natural gas hydrate.

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