FILE PHOTO: A police officer stands guard near Japan and South Korea national flags at hotel, where South Korean embassy in Japan is holding the reception to mark the 50th anniversary of normalisation of ties between Seoul and Tokyo, in Tokyo June 22, 2015. REUTERS/Toru Hanai
TOKYO/SEOUL (Reuters) - A war of words over ownership of a group of tiny islands in the sea between Japan and South Korea spilled over to the Olympics on Wednesday as Tokyo criticised Seoul's complaint over a map of Japan on the Tokyo Games website.
Ties between Japan and South Korea have often been fraught over their shared history, stemming from Japan's often brutal colonisation of the Korean peninsula between 1910 and 1945, and over the disputed islands known as "Dokdo" in Korea and "Takeshima" in Japan.
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