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In 2005, Japan’s Shimane Prefecture adopted the ‘Takeshima Day’ ordinance that designated 22 February, the day the Lian- court Rocks (Dokdo in Korean, Takeshima in Japanese) were incorporated into Japan in 1905, as a prefectural memorial day. The passage of the ordinance, the Korean reaction and the wide domestic coverage propelled Takeshima to the forefront of Ja- pan’s domestic debates on South Korea. It transformed the previ- ously obscure and unknown to most Japanese dispute into one of the main symbols in Japan’s nationalistic debates.
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