Japan will continue its video propaganda campaign over a pair of South Korean-controlled islets in the Sea of Japan despite the protests and demands by Seoul that Tokyo's video on the subject be taken off a popular video-sharing website, the government said Wednesday.
"The government is doing what we must do regularly, from the viewpoint of promoting a more correct understanding of the situation surrounding our country," Foreign Ministry press secretary Kuni Sato said at a news conference, referring to a new YouTube video made by the ministry that features Japan's claims to the disputed islets, known as Takeshima in Japan and Dokdo in South Korea.
The ministry has uploaded a similar public relations video featuring Japan's administration of the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea, whose ownership is disputed by China, which calls the uninhabited islets Diaoyu, and by Taiwan, which refers to them as Tiaoyutai.