A simple bowl of curry is at the center of the latest row in a long-running territorial dispute between Japan, North Korea and South Korea.
Media in North and South Korea reacted angrily after an online media report about a seafood curry sold in Japan that includes mounds of rice shaped to resemble Takeshima, which Koreans refer to as Dokdo.
The rocky islets, which lie roughly equidistant between Japan and the Korean Peninsula, are administered by South Korea, but Japan insists they are an integral part of its territory.
The dish features a Japanese flag planted in one of the mounds of rice,
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