Japan holding off maritime survey seeking breakthrough with S. Korea

Japan holding off maritime survey seeking breakthrough with S. Korea

SAKAIMINATO, Japan - Photo taken at 1:20 p.m. April 20 shows the Japan Coast Guard survey vessel Kaiyo (fore), on a mission to conduct a maritime survey near the disputed islets in the Sea of Japan, standing by off Sakaiminato, Tottori Prefecture, as the government puts off the start of the survey, seeking a breakthrough with South Korea through unofficial talks to head off a confrontation.

  • Product Code
  • ILEA001114623
  • Registered date
  • 2006/4/20 00:00:00
  • Credit
  • Kyodo / Kyodo News Images
  • Media source
  • 2006 Kyodo News
  • Media size
  • 1864 × 1188 pixel
  • Resolution
  • dpi
  • Deployment size
  • 586.85(KB)*
  • Special instruction

*File size when opened in Photoshop, etc.

Similar Images & Videos
    Snow crab fishing in western Japan

    Snow crab fishing in western Japan

    A fishing vessel heads to sea from Sakai port, known for having the country's largest crab hauls, in Sakaiminato in Tottori Prefecture, western Japan, on Aug. 31, 2023, a day before the start of the 10-month fishing season for red snow crab.
      Snow crab fishing in Japan

      Snow crab fishing in Japan

      A fishing vessel leaves a port in the Tottori Prefecture city of Sakaiminato, known for having one of Japan's largest crab hauls, on Aug. 31, 2022, a day before the fishing season for red snow crab opens in the Sea of Japan.
        Snow crab fishing in Japan

        Snow crab fishing in Japan

        A fishing vessel leaves a port in the Tottori Prefecture city of Sakaiminato, known for having one of Japan's largest crab hauls, on Aug. 31, 2022, a day before the fishing season for red snow crab opens in the Sea of Japan.
          Joetsu Thermal Power Station in Niigata Pref.

          Joetsu Thermal Power Station in Niigata Pref.

          NAGOYA, Japan - Photo shows a power generating facility at the Joetsu Thermal Power Station in Joetsu, Niigata Prefecture, on June 10, 2014. Chubu Electric Power Co.'s power station, built near the Sea of Japan coast in case of a disaster on the Pacific Ocean side of Japan, has recently started general operations.
            Civic leader shows cultural transfer from S. Korea to Japan

            Civic leader shows cultural transfer from S. Korea to Japan

            MATSUE, Japan - Yutaka Mori, leader of a civilian group studying the ancient transfer of culture from the Korean Peninsula to Japan, explains a sea route from Geoje Island off the southern coast of South Korea to Tsushima Island, Nagasaki Prefecture, southwestern Japan, in this file photo taken on May 14, 2014.
              S. Korean ferry sinks

              S. Korean ferry sinks

              JINDO ISLAND, South Korea - Photo shows relatives (front) of passengers who remain missing after the sinking of a passenger ferry and a South Korean Coast Guard vessel under a search operation, at a port on Jindo Island in the southwestern part of South Korea in the early hours of April 17, 2014. The 6,800-ton Sewol, carrying a total of 462 people, many of them high school students on an overnight trip to the southern resort island of Jeju, sank the previous day.
                S. Korean ferry sinks

                S. Korean ferry sinks

                JINDO ISLAND, South Korea - Photo shows relatives of passengers who remain missing after the sinking of a passenger ferry and a South Korean Coast Guard vessel (back), at a port on Jindo Island in the southwestern part of South Korea in the early hours of April 17, 2014. The 6,800-ton Sewol, carrying a total of 462 people, many of them high school students on an overnight trip to the southern resort island of Jeju, sank the previous day.
                  Fukushima fisheries to resume trial fishing

                  Fukushima fisheries to resume trial fishing

                  SOMA, Japan - Photo shows Matsukawaura fishing port in Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, on Sept. 24, 2013. The Fukushima Prefectural Federation of Fisheries Cooperative Associations said the same day fishing off the Fukushima coast is set to resume on a trial basis Sept. 25, about a month after leaks of contaminated water into the sea at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant forced trial operations to be put on hold. According to the federation, out of 100 fish and seafood products tested, 95 were clear of radioactive substances and the remaining five contained less than one-10th of the government's limit of 100 becquerels for food products.
                    Takeshima Day protest in S. Korea

                    Takeshima Day protest in S. Korea

                    SEOUL, South Korea - Demonstrators in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on Feb. 22, 2013, rally against an event to be held later in the day in Shimane Prefecture, western Japan, known as "Takeshima Day." Japan claims two islands in the Sea of Japan, which it calls Takeshima and considers part of Shimane Prefecture, but the islands are controlled by South Korea, where they are known as Dokdo.
                      Takeshima Day protest in S. Korea

                      Takeshima Day protest in S. Korea

                      SEOUL, South Korea - Demonstrators in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on Feb. 22, 2013, rally against an event to be held later in the day in Shimane Prefecture, western Japan, known as "Takeshima Day." Japan claims two islands in the Sea of Japan, which it calls Takeshima and considers part of Shimane Prefecture, but the islands are controlled by South Korea, where they are known as Dokdo.