You make My point exactly. When do we begin to allow that what was in the past is IN THE PAST! Or is this country going to proclamate that Mexico truly owns the Pacific Western states and England and France rightly own the East Coast and the Louisiana Basin?
Ignoring for the moment "flyover-country"...
Dokdo was never anything but Korean is the point. It is Korean now, it was Korean then. Never anything else. Japan has no “historical” claim on it whatsoever.
You have a point, I think its stupid to go back in time and say “That is ours!”, which is what Japan is trying to do.