A conservative Japanese group says it will erect monuments outside the South Korean embassy and consulates in Japan with inscriptions stating the Dokdo Islets belong to Japan.

This group says it submitted applications in December to local authorities on a project to establish a Takeshima monument on the street outside the South Korean embassy in Tokyo's Minami-Azabu district. Takeshima is the Japanese name for South Korea's easternmost islets of Dokdo.

The Korean embassy is currently operating at a temporary location in Shinjuku, but it will return to Minami-Azabu when renovation of the building is completed next year.

The group is also known to be planning to set up monuments outside the Korean consulates in Osaka and Kobe in line with Takeshima Day next January 22nd.

An official of the group says they are retaliating against the South Korean civic group which built a "peace monument" outside the Japanese embassy in Seoul in December. The peace monument was erected to honor Korean victims who were forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese army during World War Two.