SKorea reacts to Japan's assertion of island claims
(22 Feb 2017) South Korea on Wednesday strongly condemned Japan for sending a high level official to an event celebrating the disputed Dokdo islets, known as Takeshima in Japanese.
In a briefing in Seoul, South Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman Cho June-hyuck stressed that the islets are a South Korean territory and urged the Japanese government stop its futile attempts to claim sovereignty over them.
The ministry called in Hideo Suzuki, a minister at the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, to lodge an official complaint about Japan's dispatch of Shunsuke Mutai, parliamentary vice minister of the Cabinet Office, to a celebratory event called 'Takeshima Day' in Matsue, Shimane prefecture, Japan.
In 2005, Japan's western Shimane Prefecture declared 22 February 'Takeshima Day' and annually holds a ceremony claiming Japan's dominion over the islets amid strong objections from South Korea.
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Shimane Prefecture
Shimane Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūgoku region on the main Honshu island. The capital is Matsue. It is the second least populous prefecture in Japan, after its eastern neighbor Tottori. The prefecture has an area elongated from east to west facing the Chūgoku Mountain Range on the south side and to the Sea of Japan on the north side. It is divided into the Izumo Region in the East, the Iwami Region in the West and the Oki Region, a small group of islands off the northern coast. Most of the cities are near the shoreline of the Sea of Japan. Izumo Taisha in Izumo City is one of the oldest Shinto shrines in Japan. The Oki Islands in the Sea of Japan are also part of Shimane Prefecture, which also claims to have jurisdiction over the South Korea-controlled island of Liancourt Rocks, Japanese: Takeshima(竹島)).
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