By BURT HERMAN
Associated Press Writer
March 18, 2005
The territorial dispute between South Korea and Japan over uninhabited islets in the Sea of Japan escalated Friday when a South Korean city council passed a resolution staking Seoul's claim to other islands controlled by its neighbor.
The move by the Masan city council came two days after a Japanese regional government asserted Tokyo's claims to the Korean-held outcroppings - called Dokdo in Korean and Takeshima in Japanese. <snip>
The Japanese embassy in central Seoul has become a venue for daily demonstrations. On Friday, a man poured paint thinner on himself and jumped into a fire where protesters were burning Japanese flags and boxes symbolizing Japanese goods, police said. He was hospitalized but his life was not in danger, police said.
Earlier this week, two protesters cut off their own fingers. <snip>
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