Japan has lodged a protest with South Korea as flags hoisted during an exhibition match by the unified Korean women's ice hockey team for the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics showed a pair of Japanese-claimed islets, the government's top spokesman said Monday."We cannot accept the flag in light of Japan's stance over the sovereignty of Takeshima and it is extremely regrettable," Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told a press conference, referring to the South-Korean controlled, Japanese-claimed islets, which are known as Dokdo to Koreans.Suga said Tokyo will continue to urge Seoul to take "…READ FULL ARTICLE
