South Korea has strongly protested Japan’s renewed education guidelines for the next decade. 

The draft version of a revised guideline was posted by the Japan’s education ministry on Tokyo’s e-government website. 
One of the biggest flaw South Korea is protesting against is the guideline teaching elementary and middle students in Japan that Dokdo belongs to Japan. 

“We cannot but deplore Japan’s repeated claims to our territory, Dokdo, in its draft version of a revised guideline and we demand its immediate withdrawal,” the foreign ministry of South Korea said. 

The ministry emphasised that Dokdo is territory of South Korea historically, geographically and by international law. 
Japan has stated since 2008 that Dokdo is part of their territory.

This has been a source of tension between South Korea and Japan, causing protests and ongoing diplomatic friction. 
The ministry has lodged an official complaint to the Japanese embassy minister. 

The revised, legally binding education guideline will serve as a state-enforced standard for elementary school students from 2020 and middle school students from 2021. The guideline will be revised again 10 years later if not immediately acted upon. 

Currently all four textbooks for elementary schools in Japan and 19 textbooks for high school students claim Dokdo as Japanese territory.