韓国船、竹島周辺で調査か　ＥＥＺ内、外務省が抗議

　外務省は１８日、島根県・竹島（韓国名・独島）周辺の日本の排他的経済水域（ＥＥＺ）内で、韓国の調査船がワイヤ状のものを海中に投入していたと発表した。日本の事前同意を得ずに海洋調査を実施したとみられ、船越健裕アジア大洋州局長が駐日韓国次席公使に「受け入れられない」と抗議し、即時中止を求めた。（2022/08/18-23:50）

Japan has made a protest against a suspected marine survey by South Korea in its exclusive economic zone around the Takeshima Islands in the Sea of Japan.
   A South Korean survey ship was seen dropping a wire-shaped object into the sea in the EEZ around the Shimane Prefecture islands in what appeared to be a marine survey initiated without Japan's consent, the Foreign Ministry said Thursday.
   The Japan Coast Guard asked the vessel what it was doing, but the ship refused to say, arguing that South Korea holds sovereignty over the islands, according to the ministry.
   Takehiro Funakoshi, director-general of the ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, protested to a minister at the South Korean Embassy in Tokyo, demanding an immediate halt to the activity.
   The Japanese-claimed islands are effectively controlled by South Korea, where they are called Dokdo.