In response to South Korea's ”protest,” Japan's Minister of State for Territorial Issues says ”Takeshima is Japanese territory” = South Korean media

In response to the South Korean government's protest against the expansion of the "Territory and Sovereignty Exhibition Hall" in Tokyo, a public relations facility that Japan uses to assert its sovereignty over Takeshima (known as Dokdo in Korean), a Japanese cabinet minister stated, "Takeshima is not part of our territory.