Japan - does the Foreign Ministry employ any diplomats ?

Something odd is going on at the Japanese Foreign Ministry, a Japanese media report has quoted one 'senior Foreign Ministry official' as saying "South Koreans get easily excited about something, but easily forget it too." Nice one - wonder what the junior officials are saying. Without knowing the bakground detail it's hard to judge these stories, but the Japanese media seems to be able to regularly report what look like fairly obviously racist slurs coming from their own diplomats and top officials more from Japan Today... Perhaps there's a shortage of spin docters.