South Korea Japan Disputed Islands
South Korean protesters with a Japanese wartime flag shout a slogan during a rally against Japan's sovereignty claims over South Korea's Dokdo islets...
South Korean protesters with a Japanese wartime flag shout a slogan during a rally against Japan's sovereignty claims over South Korea's Dokdo islets, known as Takeshima in Japan, in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Sept. 10, 2010. South Korea on Friday expressed "deep regrets" over Japan's latest claim to South Korea's easternmost islets of Dokdo in its annual defense document, saying the Japanese position won't be helpful to bilateral relations. The Japanese letters on a banner read "The aggressor nation Japan should discard its defense white paper (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
South Korea Japan Disputed Islands
South Korean protesters with a Japanese national and wartime flag shout a slogan during a rally against Japan's sovereignty claims over South Korea's...
South Korean protesters with a Japanese national and wartime flag shout a slogan during a rally against Japan's sovereignty claims over South Korea's Dokdo islets , known as Takeshima in Japan, in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Sept. 10, 2010. South Korea on Friday expressed "deep regrets" over Japan's latest claim to South Korea's easternmost islets of Dokdo in its annual defense document, saying the Japanese position won't be helpful to bilateral relations. The Japanese letters on a banner read "The aggressor nation Japan should discard its defense white paper(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
Protesters in South Korea's capital tried to burn the Japanese flag in a show of anger over Japan's renewed claim to islets at the center of a long-running territorial dispute between the neighbors.
About 100 South Koreans rallied outside the Japanese Embassy on Friday over the islets, called Dokdo in Korean and Takeshima in Japanese.
Earlier, Japan's government issued an annual defense report describing the islets, which are under South Korean control and located about halfway between the countries, as an "integral" part of Japanese territory.
South Korea's Foreign Ministry demanded that Japan withdraw the latest claim.
