Japanese diplomat summoned over Dokdo claim

Hirotaka Matsuo, deputy head of mission at the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, enters the foreign ministry in the capital on Feb. 20, 2026. The ministry called him in to lodge a protest over Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi's reiteration the same day of Tokyo's territorial claim to South Korea's easternmost islets of Dokdo. (Yonhap)

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