The Japanese government lodged a protest with the South Korean government on Friday as Seoul began streaming images from a pair of South Korean-controlled islets in the Sea of Japan that are claimed by Japan.Takehiro Funakoshi, director general of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, protested to Kim Yong Gil, a counselor at the South Korean Embassy in Tokyo, that the islets, called Takeshima in Japan and Dokdo in South Korea, are an "inherent part" of Japanese territory, and demanded that the live webcast be halted immediately. In Seoul, a senior official at …READ FULL ARTICLE
