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Osaka shopping arcade gearing up for foreign tourists

OSAKA, Japan - Signs in Chinese, Hangul and English are seen in the Sennichimae Doguyasuji shopping arcade in Osaka, western Japan, on Jan. 10, 2015. The arcade and other shopping streets in Osaka are making efforts to improve customer services in anticipation of more foreign tourists.

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Tottori urges S. Koreans to submit trekking plans

OSAKA, Japan - Photo shows a document in Hangul (L) that the Tottori prefectural government sent to South Korean travel companies, telling them their clients must inform the local government of their hiking plans for Mt. Daisen in the western Japanese prefecture, amid an increase in the number of South Korean hikers. On the right is a Japanese translation of the document.

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5 bodies found in boat marked with Hangul characters

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter in the city of Sado, Niigata Prefecture, on Nov. 28, 2012, shows police officers examining a wooden boat that washed up on rocks by a beach on Sado Island in the Sea of Japan. Five bodies were found in the morning of that day in the boat marked with Hangul characters.

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5 bodies found in boat marked with Hangul characters

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter in the city of Sado, Niigata Prefecture, on Nov. 28, 2012, shows police officers examining a wooden boat that washed up on rocks by a beach on Sado Island in the Sea of Japan. Five bodies were found in the morning of that day in the boat marked with Hangul characters.

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5 bodies found in boat marked with Hangul characters

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter in the city of Sado, Niigata Prefecture, on Nov. 28, 2012, shows police officers examining a wooden boat that washed up on rocks by a beach on Sado Island in the Sea of Japan. Five bodies were found in the morning of that day in the boat marked with Hangul characters.

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More S. Koreans visit Japan to hike mountains

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - A 56-year-old South Korean hiker points at a directional sign written in Hangul characters on a trail on Mt. Karakuni in Kirishima, Kagoshima Prefecture, on Jan. 9, 2011. The number of South Korean climbers and hikers has been surging since 2007. Over 3,000 South Koreans seem to visit Japan annually to hike mountains, according to Japan National Tourism Organization and others.

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Citizens pray for peace in Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - People arrange their paper lanterns in a field in Hiroshima on Aug. 6 to form a peace mark and the character ''peace'' in Japanese (C), Hangul (R) and Arabic (L).

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Shaving head to save pure Hangul

A South Korean Hangul activist gets his head shaved in front of South Korea's Ministry of Culture and Tourism on Feb. 19 as a gesture of protest against the government policy to reintroduce Chinese characters in the written Korean language.

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N. Korea's Kim Jong Un appears at huge loyalty parade in Pyongyang

People form human letters of the name of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Hangul during a parade in Pyongyang's Kim Il Sung Square on May 10, 2016, to celebrate the end of the seventh Workers' Party of Korea congress. Kim Jong Un appeared at the parade, in which hundreds of thousands of people took part. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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More S. Koreans visit Japan to hike mountains

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - A 56-year-old South Korean hiker points at a directional sign written in Hangul characters on a trail on Mt. Karakuni in Kirishima, Kagoshima Prefecture, on Jan. 9, 2011. The number of South Korean climbers and hikers has been surging since 2007. Over 3,000 South Koreans seem to visit Japan annually to hike mountains, according to Japan National Tourism Organization and others. (Kyodo)

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Tottori urges S. Koreans to submit trekking plans

OSAKA, Japan - Photo shows a document in Hangul (L) that the Tottori prefectural government sent to South Korean travel companies, telling them their clients must inform the local government of their hiking plans for Mt. Daisen in the western Japanese prefecture, amid an increase in the number of South Korean hikers. On the right is a Japanese translation of the document. (Kyodo)

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Unidentified boat off Japan

TOTTORI, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows Japan Coast Guard officers aboard an unidentified wooden boat found in the Sea of Japan off the western Japan island of Okinoshima on Jan. 6, 2012. The coast guard said three adult men and a dead body were on the boat and that one of the men said the boat had been drifting after developing engine trouble during fishing. The small boat with Hangul characters on its hull was initially suspected of carrying defectors from North Korea. (Kyodo)

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Unidentified boat off Japan

TOTTORI, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows Japan Coast Guard officers aboard an unidentified wooden boat found in the Sea of Japan off the western Japan island of Okinoshima on Jan. 6, 2012. The coast guard said three adult men and a dead body were on the boat and that one of the men said the boat had been drifting after developing engine trouble during fishing. The small boat with Hangul characters on its hull was initially suspected of carrying defectors from North Korea. (Kyodo)

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China's border with N. Korea

Photo taken April 26, 2021, shows freight trains with North Korean geographic names in Hangul at Dandong Station in the city of Dandong on China's border with North Korea.

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Chinese border with N. Korea

Photo taken April 26, 2021, shows freight trains with North Korean geographic names in Hangul at Dandong Station in the city of Dandong on China's border with North Korea.

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S. Korea celebrates Hangul Day

Children pose in front of a statue of Sejong the Great at Gwanghawmun Square in Seoul on Oct. 9, 2018, to celebrate Hangul Day, marking the invention and proclamation of the Korean alphabet by the fourth king of the Joseon dynasty of Korea in 1446. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Citizens pray for peace in Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - People arrange their paper lanterns in a field in Hiroshima on Aug. 6 to form a peace mark and the character ''peace'' in Japanese (C), Hangul (R) and Arabic (L). (Kyodo)

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Defense Agency releases photo of suspicious ship

TOKYO, Japan - The Defense Agency released on Sept. 5 a photo taken by a Maritime Self-Defense Force P-3C patrol aircraft of a suspicious ship spotted off the Noto Peninsula in the Sea of Japan on Sept. 4. According to the agency, a North Korean national flag was painted on the ship's funnel and the ship's name was written on the stern in Korean hangul characters. (Kyodo)

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Shaving head to save pure Hangul

A South Korean Hangul activist gets his head shaved in front of South Korea's Ministry of Culture and Tourism on Feb. 19 as a gesture of protest against the government policy to reintroduce Chinese characters in the written Korean language. ==Kyodo