Japanese government presents ¡°The Revised Complete Map of Japanese Lands and Roads¡± as proof for its claim that Japan has long recognized Dokdo as Japanese territory. However Dokdo and Ulle ungdo are located outside the longitudinal and latitudinal lines of the grid in the 1846 edition of this map and in the original edition completed in 1779.
Official Japanese government documents also clearly show that Japan had not recognized Dokdo as its territory until its illegal incorporation of the island in 1905.
The Geographical Appendix to the Veritable Records of King Sejong (Sejong sillok jiriji, 1454) states, ¡°Usan [that is, Dokdo] and Mureung [that is, Ulleungdo]are located in the middle of the sea, due east of this county.
A Japanese document from the mid-seventeenth century, ¡°Records on Observation in Oki Province¡± (Inshu shicho goki, 1667), states that the Oki Islands mark the northwestern boundary of Japan. This indicates that Japan had not perceivedUlleungdo and Dokdo as its land.