Wednesday 09th July, 05:18 AM JST TOKYO — The education ministry is reconsidering its plan to state in an educational document that a pair of South Korean-controlled rocky islets in the Sea of Japan, called Takeshima in Japan and Dokdo in South Korea, are an ‘‘integral part of Japan,’’ government sources said Tuesday. The ministry could possibly give up on the plan, which many Japanese government officials have said could lead to deterioration in bilateral ties between Japan and South Korea, the sources said. South Korean Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Yu Myung Hwan conveyed the country’s ‘‘grave concern’’ to Japanese Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura over the Japanese plan to say that the islets are part of Japan as they met in Sapporo the same day, Japanese and South Korean...
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