Local community asks Japan gov't to solve territorial dispute

Aiko Shimajiri (C), Japan's minister in charge of territorial issues, receives a written request in Tokyo on Feb. 17, 2016, from Kazuhisa Matsuda, the mayor of Shimane Prefecture's Okinoshima-cho, urging the government to solve the issue of South Korean-controlled islets in the Sea of Japan. Tokyo claims the islets, called Takeshima in Japanese and Dokdo in Korean, as part of Shimane. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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