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With the Japan–Korea Treaty of 1876, Japan decided to expand their initial settlements and acquired an enclave in Busan.In the Sino-Japanese War of 1894–95, Japan defeated the Qing dynasty, and had released Korea from the tributary system of Qing China by concluding the Treaty of Shimonoseki, which compelled the Qing to acknowledge Yi Dynasty Korea as an independent country.
The Japan–Korea Undersea Tunnel, or Korea–Japan Undersea Tunnel, is a proposed tunnel project to connect Japan with South Korea via an undersea tunnel crossing the Korea Strait that would use the strait islands of Iki and Tsushima, a straight-line distance of approximately 128 kilometers (80 mi) at its shortest.
The islands were first incorporated by the Empire of Japan in 1905 during the Russo-Japanese War, claiming that the land was terra nullius; Japanese victory in the war resulted in the Japan–Korea Treaty of 1905, making the Korean Empire a protectorate of Japan, and ultimately the annexation of Korea five years later with the Japan–Korea ...
China's premier agreed Monday to revive three-way cooperation with South Korea and Japan in the face of shared challenges, but issued a veiled rebuke against the two countries' expanding security ...
North Korea’s growing arsenal of nuclear-capable missiles poses a major security threat to South Korea and Japan. But China, North Korea’s last major ally and biggest source of aid, is ...
South Korea, Japan and China held 16 rounds of official negotiations over a three-way FTA after they first kicked off in 2012. At their last negotiation in November 2019, the three countries ...
Heaven Lake. The border between China and Korea has been a contentious issue since antiquity. [2] [3] [4] Although the practice of using the Yalu and Tumen rivers as the border became largely established by the 15th century, [2] [5] the rivers' changing locations and ambiguous status especially near their origins on Paektu Mountain provided an enduring source of friction.
Rounds of disputes about island ownership in the East China Sea have triggered both official and civilian protests between China and Japan. [11] The dispute between PRC and South Korea concerns Socotra Rock, a submerged reef on which South Korea has constructed a scientific research station. While neither country claims the rock as territory ...