Japan produced `Sea of Japan video` in additional seven different languages

It has been confirmed that the Japanese government has recently made a video contending in seven different languages that Korea’s “East Sea” is the “Sea of Japan” and distributed it on the internet.

On May 14, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan has uploaded a video on its website and Youtube, insisting that the “Sea of Japan is internationally accepted term in Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish. Last year, the country made and distributed the video of same argument in Korean, Japanese and English.

The Abe administration has stressed that Japan should aggressively inform its stance on the territory concerned to the international community.

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