A growing number of Japanese people are reportedly moving their legal residential address to the South Korean Dokdo Islets.

The Sankei Shimbun daily and Kyodo News say that 69 people have completed such transfers of residences as of January.

Most of those who have done so are known to be residents of Shimane Prefecture who claim that the islets are Japan's and call them by the Japanese name “Takeshima.”

A group of those who believe Dokdo belongs to Japan designated February 22nd as Takeshima Day six years ago.

Some 500 Japanese on the Kuril Islands, involved in a similar territorial dispute with Russia, are also believed to have transferred their legal residences to Kuril.