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TOKYO (AP) - Japan's education minister Friday defended the government's approval of a civics textbook supporting Tokyo's claim to a cluster of islands held by South Korea, despite protests by Seoul.
The junior high school book states that the Sea of Japan islets — called Takeshima in Japan and Dokdo in Korea — are illegally occupied by South Korea.
Japan has refused South Korean demands to change the book, and Education Minister Nariaki Nakayama said the handling of the textbook was "properly conducted."
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