Tokyo protests to Seoul over South Korean lawmaker's visit to Takeshima

The Japanese government lodged a protest Tuesday with South Korea over a visit by a South Korean lawmaker to Takeshima, a group of islets in the Sea of Japan controlled by Seoul but claimed by Tokyo.The visit Sunday to the islets called Dokdo in South Korea by the opposition lawmaker was timed for the 76th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II in 1945, which ended Tokyo's colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula from 1910.The lawmaker made the visit despite Tokyo's request in advance not to do so, the Japanese Foreign Ministry said.Takehiro Funakoshi, director general of the Japanes…READ FULL ARTICLE