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Event in Japan to push claim for islets

MATSUE, Japan, Feb. 22 Kyodo - Shimane Gov. Tatsuya Maruyama speaks at an annual event to mark Shimane Prefecture-designated "Takeshima Day" in Matsue, western Japan, on Feb. 22, 2025, held to push Japan's claim to a group of South Korea-controlled islets in the Sea of Japan. (Kyodo)

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Event in Japan to push claim for islets

Eriko Imai, a Japanese Cabinet Office parliamentary vice minister, speaks at an annual event to mark Shimane Prefecture-designated "Takeshima Day" in Matsue, western Japan, on Feb. 22, 2025, held to push Japan's claim to a group of South Korea-controlled islets in the Sea of Japan.

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Event in Japan to push claim for islets

Shimane Gov. Tatsuya Maruyama speaks at an annual event to mark Shimane Prefecture-designated "Takeshima Day" in Matsue, western Japan, on Feb. 22, 2025, held to push Japan's claim to a group of South Korea-controlled islets in the Sea of Japan.

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Event in Japan to push claim for islets

An annual event to mark Shimane Prefecture-designated "Takeshima Day" is held in Matsue, western Japan, on Feb. 22, 2025, to push Japan's claim to a group of South Korea-controlled islets in the Sea of Japan.

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Event in Japan to push claim for islets

Police officers stand guard in Matsue, western Japan, on Feb. 22, 2025, around the venue of an annual event to mark Shimane Prefecture-designated "Takeshima Day" to push Japan's claim to a group of South Korea-controlled islets in the Sea of Japan.

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Event in Japan to push claim for islets

Police officers stand guard in Matsue, western Japan, on Feb. 22, 2025, around the venue of an annual event to mark Shimane Prefecture-designated "Takeshima Day" to push Japan's claim to a group of South Korea-controlled islets in the Sea of Japan.

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[Breaking News]Event in Japan to claim S. Korea-held islets

MATSUE,SHIMANE, Feb. 22 Kyodo -Police officers stand guard in Matsue, western Japan, on Feb. 22, 2024, around the venue of an annual event to mark Shimane Prefecture-designated "Takeshima Day" to push Japan's claim to a group of South Korea-controlled islets in the Sea of Japan.(Kyodo)

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Event in Japan to claim S. Korea-held islets

An annual event to mark Shimane Prefecture-designated "Takeshima Day" is held in Matsue, western Japan, on Feb. 22, 2024, to push Japan's claim to a group of South Korea-controlled islets in the Sea of Japan.

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Event in Japan to claim S. Korea-held islets

Police officers stand guard in Matsue, western Japan, on Feb. 22, 2024, around the venue of an annual event to mark Shimane Prefecture-designated "Takeshima Day" to push Japan's claim to a group of South Korea-controlled islets in the Sea of Japan.

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Event in Japan to claim S. Korea-held islets

Police officers stand guard in Matsue, western Japan, on Feb. 22, 2024, around the venue of an annual event to mark Shimane Prefecture-designated "Takeshima Day" to push Japan's claim to a group of South Korea-controlled islets in the Sea of Japan.

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Event in Japan to claim S. Korea-held islets

Police officers stand guard in Matsue, western Japan, on Feb. 22, 2024, around the venue of an annual event to mark Shimane Prefecture-designated "Takeshima Day" to push Japan's claim to a group of South Korea-controlled islets in the Sea of Japan.

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Event in Japan to claim S. Korea-held islets

An annual event to mark Shimane Prefecture-designated "Takeshima Day" is held in Matsue, western Japan, on Feb. 22, 2024, to push Japan's claim to a group of South Korea-controlled islets in the Sea of Japan.

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Aging Japanese seek return of Takeshima from S. Korea

MATSUE, Japan - Yumiko Sugihara, 69, holds a picture book she has completed in the town of Okinoshima, Shimane Prefecture, on Jan. 22, 2013. The book tells the story of infant sea lions that were hunted near Takeshima, a group of islets in the Sea of Japan now controlled by South Korea, which calls them Dokdo.

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Aging Japanese seek return of Takeshima from S. Korea

MATSUE, Japan - Photo taken Jan. 23, 2013, shows Katsumi Iwataki (L), 88, and Wahei Hara, 94, in the town of Okinoshima, Shimane Prefecture. Iwataki and Hara are among the very few Japanese people still alive who have visited Takeshima, a group of islets in the Sea of Japan now controlled by South Korea, which calls them Dokdo.

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Local assembly members land on Senkaku Islands

ISHIGAKI, Japan - Hitoshi Nakama (C), a member of the municipal assembly of Ishigaki in Okinawa Prefecture, returns to Ishigaki Island on the evening of Jan. 3, 2012, after landing on one of the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea, a group of islets controlled by Japan and claimed also by China and Taiwan. Two assembly members including Nakama landed on Uotsuri Island that day.

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Local assembly members land on Senkaku Islands

ISHIGAKI, Japan - Hitoshi Nakama (R), a member of the municipal assembly of Ishigaki in Okinawa Prefecture, answers reporters' questions upon returning to Ishigaki Island on the evening of Jan. 3, 2012, after landing on one of the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea, a group of islets controlled by Japan and claimed also by China and Taiwan. Another assembly member, Tadashi Nakamine (L), also landed on Uotsuri Island the same day.

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Chinese beer takes on name of disputed isles

SHANGHAI, China - Cans of Diaoyudao Beer sold in southern China by a brewery in Guangzhou since 2012 show the slogan "Diaoyudao, Territory of China," as seen in this photo taken on Dec. 9, 2014. Diaoyudao or Diaoyu Islands is the Chinese name for the Senkaku Islands, a set of uninhabited, Japanese-controlled islets in the East China Sea which China also claims.

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Russian senior official visits Etorofu

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - Sergei Ivanov (front), chief of staff of Russia's Presidential Executive Office, inspects a newly constructed dock on Sept. 24, 2014, on Etorofu Island -- one of the four islets off Japan's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido, claimed by Tokyo but controlled by Moscow. In Tokyo, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said the development is "extremely regrettable."

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Russian senior official visits Etorofu

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - Sergei Ivanov (C), chief of staff of Russia's Presidential Executive Office, inspects a newly constructed airport on Sept. 24, 2014, on Etorofu Island -- one of the four islets off Japan's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido, claimed by Tokyo but controlled by Moscow. In Tokyo, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said the development is "extremely regrettable."

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Russian senior official visits Etorofu

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - Sergei Ivanov (C), chief of staff of Russia's Presidential Executive Office, inspects a newly constructed airport on Sept. 24, 2014, on Etorofu Island -- one of the four islets off Japan's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido, claimed by Tokyo but controlled by Moscow. In Tokyo, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said the development is "extremely regrettable."

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Takeshima meeting

TOKYO, Japan - Cross-party Japanese lawmakers and officials and fishermen from Shimane Prefecture hold a meeting in Tokyo on June 5, 2014, aiming for the swift resolution of the territorial issue over the South Korea-controlled islets in the Sea of Japan known as Takeshima in Japan and Dokdo in South Korea.

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Takeshima meeting

TOKYO, Japan - Masazumi Gotoda, senior vice minister of the Cabinet Office, speaks at a meeting of cross-party Japanese lawmakers and officials and fishermen from Shimane Prefecture in Tokyo on June 5, 2014, aiming for the swift resolution of the territorial issue over the South Korea-controlled islets in the Sea of Japan known as Takeshima in Japan and Dokdo in South Korea.

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Book on Takeshima

MATSUE, Japan - Photo shows a book intended to provide expositions on the South Korean-controlled islets known as Takeshima in Japan and Dokdo in South Korea, written in the style of 100 questions and 100 answers. Shimane Prefecture published the book on Feb. 14, 2014, before "Takeshima Day" on Feb. 22. Japan claims that the islands are part of the prefecture.

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1 year after Japan purchased Senkaku islets

MIYAKOJIMA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News airplane shows Uotsuri (front), one of the five main islands in the Japanese-controlled Senkaku group, in the East China Sea on Sept. 11, 2013, a year after the Japanese government purchased some of the islets, which are claimed by China and Taiwan.

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Chinese vessels near Senkakus

MIYAKOJIMA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News airplane shows Uotsuri (back), one of the five main islands in the Japanese-controlled Senkaku group, in the East China Sea on Sept. 11, 2013, a year after the Japanese government purchased some of the islets, which are claimed by China and Taiwan. The Japan Coast Guard patrol ship Hayato is seen in the front. Four Chinese patrol vessels sailed in the so-called contiguous zone just outside Japanese territorial waters.

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S. Korea lodges protest with Japan

SEOUL, South Korea - Takashi Kurai, deputy chief of mission at the Japanese Embassy in South Korea, arrives at the Foreign Ministry in Seoul on July 9, 2013. The ministry called in Kurai to deliver a protest against Japan for describing South Korea-controlled islets in the Sea of Japan, known as Dokdo in Korean and Takeshima in Japanese, as Japanese territory in the Defense White Paper for 2013 released earlier in the day.

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S. Korea lodges protest with Japan

SEOUL, South Korea - Takashi Kurai (C), deputy chief of mission at the Japanese Embassy in South Korea, leaves the Foreign Ministry in Seoul on July 9, 2013. The ministry called in Kurai to deliver a protest against Japan for describing South Korea-controlled islets in the Sea of Japan, known as Dokdo in Korean and Takeshima in Japanese, as Japanese territory in the Defense White Paper for 2013 released earlier in the day.

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Japan, S. Korea agree to improve ties

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Brunei - Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida (L) leads the way prior to holding talks with his South Korean counterpart Yun Byung Se (R) in Bandar Seri Begawan, the capital of Brunei, on July 1, 2013. In the first talks in nine months between the foreign ministers of the two countries, they agreed to cooperate closely in developing bilateral relations that have been strained over Japan's perception of wartime history and a dispute over a pair of islets controlled by Seoul which are claimed by Tokyo in the Sea of Japan.

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Japan, S. Korea agree to improve ties

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Brunei - Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida (L) and his South Korean counterpart Yun Byung Se shake hands prior to holding talks in Bandar Seri Begawan, the capital of Brunei, on July 1, 2013. In the first talks in nine months between the foreign ministers of the two countries, they agreed to cooperate closely in developing bilateral relations that have been strained over Japan's perception of wartime history and a dispute over a pair of islets controlled by Seoul which are claimed by Tokyo in the Sea of Japan.

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Japan, S. Korea agree to improve ties

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Brunei - Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida (far R) and his South Korean counterpart Yun Byung Se (far L) hold talks in Bandar Seri Begawan, the capital of Brunei, on July 1, 2013. In the first talks in nine months between the foreign ministers of the two countries, they agreed to cooperate closely in developing bilateral relations that have been strained over Japan's perception of wartime history and a dispute over a pair of islets controlled by Seoul which are claimed by Tokyo in the Sea of Japan.

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Japan, S. Korea agree to improve ties

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Brunei - Combination photo shows Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida (R) and his South Korean counterpart Yun Byung Se while holding talks in Bandar Seri Begawan, the capital of Brunei, on July 1, 2013. In the first talks in nine months between the foreign ministers of the two countries, they agreed to cooperate closely in developing bilateral relations that have been strained over Japan's perception of wartime history and a dispute over a pair of islets controlled by Seoul which are claimed by Tokyo in the Sea of Japan.

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Japan, S. Korea agree to improve ties

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Brunei - Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida (L) and his South Korean counterpart Yun Byung Se shake hands prior to holding talks in Bandar Seri Begawan, the capital of Brunei, on July 1, 2013. In the first talks in nine months between the foreign ministers of the two countries, they agreed to cooperate closely in developing bilateral relations that have been strained over Japan's perception of wartime history and a dispute over a pair of islets controlled by Seoul which are claimed by Tokyo in the Sea of Japan.

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Japan, S. Korea agree to improve ties

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Brunei - Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida (L) and his South Korean counterpart Yun Byung Se shake hands prior to holding talks in Bandar Seri Begawan, the capital of Brunei, on July 1, 2013. In the first talks in nine months between the foreign ministers of the two countries, they agreed to cooperate closely in developing bilateral relations that have been strained over Japan's perception of wartime history and a dispute over a pair of islets controlled by Seoul which are claimed by Tokyo in the Sea of Japan.

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Anti-Japan protest in China

BEIJING, China - People stage a demonstration in front of the Japanese Embassy in Beijing on Sept. 17, 2012, to protest Japan's purchase on Sept. 11 of three islets of the Japan-controlled Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea, called the Diaoyu Islands in China which claims them. Anti-Japan demonstrations have taken place in Beijing for seven consecutive days since Japan's nationalization of the islets.

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Anti-Japan protest in China

BEIJING, China - People stage a demonstration in front of the Japanese Embassy in Beijing on Sept. 17, 2012, to protest Japan's purchase on Sept. 11 of three islets of the Japan-controlled Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea, called the Diaoyu Islands in China which claims them. Anti-Japan demonstrations have taken place in Beijing for seven consecutive days since Japan's nationalization of the islets.

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Anti-Japan protest in U.S.

WASHINGTON, United States - Residents of Chinese descents stage a rally in front of the Japanese Embassy in Washington on Sept. 16, 2012, to protest Japan's purchase of three islets of the Japan-controlled Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea, called the Diaoyu Islands in China which claims them.

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Anti-Japan protest in U.S.

NEW YORK, United States - Residents of Chinese descents stage a rally in front of the Japanese Consulate General in New York on Sept. 16, 2012, to protest Japan's purchase of three islets of the Japan-controlled Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea, called the Diaoyu Islands in China which claims them.

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Japan-China territorial row

NAHA, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News aircraft shows the Chinese marine surveillance ship Haijian 51 in Japanese territorial waters near the Japan-controlled Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea on Sept. 14, 2012. China also claims the islets and calls them the Diaoyu Islands.

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Japan-China territorial row

NAHA, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News aircraft shows the Chinese marine surveillance ship Haijian 51 (bottom) and the Japan Coast Guard patrol ship Ishigaki in Japanese territorial waters near Uotsuri Island, part of the Japan-controlled Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea, on Sept. 14, 2012. China also claims the islets and calls them the Diaoyu Islands.

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Japan-China territorial row

NAHA, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News aircraft shows the Chinese marine surveillance ship Haijian 51 (L) and the Japan Coast Guard patrol ship Ishigaki (R) in Japanese territorial waters near Uotsuri Island (in background), part of the Japan-controlled Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea, on Sept. 14, 2012. China also claims the islets and calls them the Diaoyu Islands.

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Japan-China territorial row

NAHA, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News aircraft shows the Chinese marine surveillance ship Haijian 51 and a P3C patrol aircraft of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force in Japanese territorial waters near Uotsuri Island, part of the Japan-controlled Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea, on Sept. 14, 2012. China also claims the islets and calls them the Diaoyu Islands.

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Japan-China territorial row

NAHA, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News aircraft shows the Chinese marine surveillance ship Haijian 51 (front) in Japanese territorial waters near the Japan-controlled Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea on Sept. 14, 2012. China also claims the islets and calls them the Diaoyu Islands. At back is a patrol ship of the Japan Coast Guard.

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Japan-S. Korea territorial row

SEOUL, South Korea - Visitors view exhibitions at a museum featuring a group of disputed isles in the Sea of Japan as the facility opened in Seoul on Sept. 14, 2012. The group of South Korean-controlled islets claimed by Japan is called Takeshima in Japan and Dokdo in South Korea.

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Japan-China territorial row

NAHA, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News aircraft shows the Chinese marine surveillance ship Haijian 51 (front) in Japanese territorial waters near the Japan-controlled Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea on Sept. 14, 2012. China also claims the islets and calls them the Diaoyu Islands. At back is a patrol ship of the Japan Coast Guard.

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Japan-S. Korea territorial row

SEOUL, South Korea - Visitors view exhibitions at a museum featuring a group of disputed isles in the Sea of Japan as the facility opened in Seoul on Sept. 14, 2012. The group of South Korean-controlled islets claimed by Japan is called Takeshima in Japan and Dokdo in South Korea.

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Japan-China territorial row

NAHA, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News aircraft shows a crew member watching out aboard the Chinese marine surveillance ship Haijian 51 in Japanese territorial waters near the Japan-controlled Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea on Sept. 14, 2012. China also claims the islets and calls them the Diaoyu Islands.

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Japan-China territorial row

NAHA, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News aircraft shows the Chinese marine surveillance ship Haijian 51 in Japanese territorial waters near the Japan-controlled Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea on Sept. 14, 2012. China also claims the islets and calls them the Diaoyu Islands.

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Japan to bring Senkakus under state control

NAHA, Japan - Photo taken from an airplane chartered by Kyodo News on Sept. 2, 2012, shows (from front) Minamikojima, Kitakojima and Uotsuri islands, part of a group of Japanese-controlled islets in the East China Sea known as Senkaku in Japan, Diaoyu in China and Tiaoyutai in Taiwan. The Japanese government has agreed with the family that owns the three islands in the Senkaku Islands group on its plan to bring them under state control, government sources said on Sept. 5.

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Japan to bring Senkakus under state control

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken Sept. 2, 2012, shows (from front) Minamikojima, Kitakojima and Uotsuri islands, part of the Japanese-controlled islets in the East China Sea, known as Senkaku in Japan, Diaoyu in China and Tiaoyutai in Taiwan. The Japanese government has agreed with the family that owns the Senkaku Islands on its plan to bring the three islands under state control, government sources said on Sept. 5.

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Tokyo survey ship to Senkakus

ISHIGAKI, Japan - A ship chartered by the Tokyo metropolitan government for a planned survey of the Senkaku Islands from nearby waters enters a port on Ishigaki Island, Okinawa Prefecture, on Sept. 1, 2012. The metropolitan government plans to buy the islets controlled by Japan but claimed by China and Taiwan.