Japan’s island-shaped curry inflames tensions with Korean neighbours

Restaurant plants Japanese flag in seafood dish moulded in shape of islands that are also claimed by South Korea

A simple bowl of curry is at the centre of the latest row in a long-running territorial dispute between Japan and the Koreas.

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 the Takeshima islands, which Koreans refer to as Dokdo.