Media of Japan are these days vying with each other to report that the number of citizens in Shimane Prefecture transferring their domicile to the islets is on the steady increase.

They assert that those citizens' transfer of domicile is a token of protest against the Japanese government which has not shown its positive stance toward "territorial dispute".

Lurking behind such actions is the Japanese reactionaries' crafty and insidious scheme to grab the islets at any cost by using the citizens as a shock brigade.

It is absurd to assert that the Japanese authorities have not taken an active hand in the issue of the islets so far.

Their active involvement is proven by the recent facts.

The Japanese authorities made public the "2010 defense white paper" stipulating that Tok islets belong to Japan. They also announced the "2010 diplomatic blue paper" which specifies Japan's "claim to Tok islets".

Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology officially adopted the "instruction manual" containing new high school curriculum guidelines, which states that the islets belong to Japan's territory. It also decided to write down Japan's "dominium over Tok islets" in all social subject textbooks for elementary schools since 2011.

Earlier, the geographical institute of Japan backed by the Ministry of National Land and Communications announced that Tok islets are marked in the same color as Japan's territory on all the maps issued in Japan, 200,000-300,000 a year.

On February 22 there was an event for commemorating "Day of Takeshima (Tok islets)" in Shimane Prefecture. Isn't this a good example to show the government's involvement?

Tok islets are an ancestral territory pertaining to Korea. This has already been proven by the historical data and geographical and legal grounds.

Such being the hard fact, Japan insists on its "claim to the islets" of no validity, attempting to make them an object of dispute.

The international community is astonished at the infamy of Japan which seeks to grab Tok islets through its citizens' transfer of domicile though it is arguing with surrounding countries over territorial issues.

In the last century Japan occupied Korea for over 40 years and imposed untold misfortune, sufferings and disasters upon the Koreans in this period. It can never be allowed to dream of staging a comeback to Korea, coveting its inviolable territory.

Japan must stop at once its reckless attempt to grab the islets.