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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 - Shoza Yawata, 84, shows materials he has collected regarding the ownership of a group of islets in the Sea of Japan, called Takeshima by Japan and Dokdo by South Korea, in the town of Okinoshima, Shimane Prefecture, on Jan. 22, 2013. Yawata's father and brother were among 11 men who became the last Japanese to travel to Takeshima to harvest seaweed in May 1954, one month before South Korea started stationing security personnel on the islets.

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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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Rescued drifters questioned on JCG ship

SAKAIMINATO, Japan - Photo taken on the morning of Jan. 7, 2012, shows the Japan Coast Guard patrol vessel Daisen anchored off Sakaiminato, Tottori Prefecture. Three North Korean men in a wooden boat found adrift off Japan's Okinoshima Island the previous day have been questioned aboard the ship.

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Tourists view gun battery ruins on war island

WAKAYAMA, Japan - Tourists view the ruins of a World War II gun battery on Okinoshima, one of a cluster of four islands in the Inland Sea off Wakayama, western Japan, on Aug. 3, 2014. The island is attracting young visitors as it looks like a floating fortress in "Laputa: Castle in the Sky," a 1986 Japanese animation film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki.

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Former WWII soldier recalls life on war island

WAKAYAMA, Japan - Hiroshi Iguchi talks about his experience as a solider of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II stationed on Okinoshima, one a cluster of four islands in the Inland Sea, off Wakayama, western Japan, in an interview in Kyoto on July 29, 2014. A gun battery and other military facilities were built on the island to counter foreign warships.

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3 N. Koreans on way home after being found drifting off Japan

SAKAIMINATO, Japan - Three North Korean men and others board a helicopter on a Japan Coast Guard vessel anchored off Sakaiminato, Tottori Prefecture, on Jan. 9, 2012, as the three make their way back to North Korea via Fukuoka and Beijing. The North Koreans were found drifting aboard a small boat with the body of a fellow crew member in the Sea of Japan off the islands of Okinoshima on Jan. 6, 2012.

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3 N. Koreans on way home after being found drifting off Japan

SAKAIMINATO, Japan - A helicopter carrying three North Korean men is taxied to a hanger at a Japan Coast Guard air base in Sakaiminato, Tottori Prefecture, on Jan. 9, 2012, as the three make their way back to North Korea via Fukuoka and Beijing. The North Koreans were found drifting aboard a small boat with the body of a fellow crew member in the Sea of Japan off the islands of Okinoshima on Jan. 6, 2012.

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ASDF begins work to salvage C-1 transport plane

HIROSHIMA, Japan - The 499-ton salvage ship Shinyo Maru (foreground) begins work July 8 to recover an Air Self-Defense Force (ASDF) transport plane that crashed in the Sea of Japan off Okinoshima Island, Shimane Prefecture, on June 28. In the background is a destroyer. The C-1 transport plane with a crew of five disappeared from radar after taking off from the ASDF Miho base in Tottori Prefecture for a 90-minute test flight. The body of one crew member was found July 4.

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Ceremony held before opening of Takeshima museum in Japan

A tape-cutting ceremony is held in the western Japan town of Okinoshima on May 29, 2016, ahead of the June 1 opening of the Kumi Takeshima History Museum devoted to South Korea-controlled islets claimed by Japan. The Sea of Japan islets are called Dokdo in South Korea and Takeshima in Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Facility to store documents related to disputed islets

Photo taken Feb. 13, 2016, in the western Japan town of Okinoshima shows a facility to store documents related to a group of South Korean-administered islets, claimed also by Japan as Takeshima, in the Sea of Japan. Seoul calls them Dokdo. The facility, which is under construction, will open to the public in May or later. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Local community asks Japan gov't to solve territorial dispute

Aiko Shimajiri (C), Japan's minister in charge of territorial issues, receives a written request in Tokyo on Feb. 17, 2016, from Kazuhisa Matsuda, the mayor of Shimane Prefecture's Okinoshima-cho, urging the government to solve the issue of South Korean-controlled islets in the Sea of Japan. Tokyo claims the islets, called Takeshima in Japanese and Dokdo in Korean, as part of Shimane. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Cabinet OKs recommendation of Fukuoka ancient sites as UNESCO heritage

File photo taken in July 2015 shows the island of Okinoshima in Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan. The government gave approval Jan. 15, 2016 for a group of ancient monuments, including the island itself, to be recommended for inclusion on the UNESCO cultural heritage list the following year. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Bid to add Munakata-Okinoshima monuments to World Heritage list

File photo taken July 25, 2015, shows a shrine pavilion in the southwestern Japan city of Munakata, part of the Munakata-Okinoshima monuments. On July 28, a government panel picked the monuments for inclusion on the UNESCO World Heritage list in 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Bid to add Munakata-Okinoshima monuments to World Heritage list

File photo taken July 25, 2015, shows a shrine pavilion in the southwestern Japan city of Munakata, part of the Munakata-Okinoshima monuments. On July 28, a government panel picked the monuments for inclusion on the UNESCO World Heritage list in 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Bid to add Munakata-Okinoshima monuments to World Heritage list

File photo taken July 11, 2015, shows Okinoshima Island in the southwestern Japan city of Munakata, Fukuoka Prefecture. The Council for Cultural Affairs decided on July 28 to pick the Munakata-Okinoshima monuments for inclusion on the UNESCO World Heritage list in 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Plan to recommend sacred island for UNESCO list sparks mixed feelings

Photo taken in November, 2015, shows the inside of Munakata Grand Shrine's Okitsu no Miya pavilion on Okinoshima Island off Fukuoka Prefecture. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Plan to recommend sacred island for UNESCO list sparks mixed feelings

Photo taken in November, 2015, shows gold-copper dragon heads, designated a national treasure, displayed at the Munakata Grand Shrine museum in the city of Munakata, Fukuoka Prefecture. They were found in the remains of ritual structures on sacred Okinoshima Island off Fukuoka. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Plan to recommend sacred island for UNESCO list sparks mixed feelings

Photo taken in November, 2015, shows Munakata Grand Shrine's Okitsu no Miya pavilion on Okinoshima Island off Fukuoka Prefecture. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Plan to recommend sacred island for UNESCO list sparks mixed feelings

Photo taken in November, 2015, shows the remains of a ritual structure on Okinoshima Island off Fukuoka Prefecture. Artifacts designated as national treasures, including gold-copper dragon heads, were found beneath the rocks. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Foot-shaped radish crops in Oki Island

MATSUE, Japan - Is he frowning on a stinking foot? No, the boy at a kindergarten on the Japan Sea island of Oki is just trying to pick up a rare foot-shaped radish brought by a local farmer who thought it might amuse the children. By courtesy of the Okinoshima Municipal Office. (Kyodo)

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Tourists view gun battery ruins on war island

WAKAYAMA, Japan - Tourists view the ruins of a World War II gun battery on Okinoshima, one of a cluster of four islands in the Inland Sea off Wakayama, western Japan, on Aug. 3, 2014. The island is attracting young visitors as it looks like a floating fortress in "Laputa: Castle in the Sky," a 1986 Japanese animation film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki. (Kyodo)

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3 N. Koreans on way home after being found drifting off Japan

SAKAIMINATO, Japan - Three North Korean men and others board a helicopter on a Japan Coast Guard vessel anchored off Sakaiminato, Tottori Prefecture, on Jan. 9, 2012, as the three make their way back to North Korea via Fukuoka and Beijing. The North Koreans were found drifting aboard a small boat with the body of a fellow crew member in the Sea of Japan off the islands of Okinoshima on Jan. 6, 2012. (Kyodo)

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3 N. Koreans on way home after being found drifting off Japan

SAKAIMINATO, Japan - A helicopter carrying three North Korean men is taxied to a hanger at a Japan Coast Guard air base in Sakaiminato, Tottori Prefecture, on Jan. 9, 2012, as the three make their way back to North Korea via Fukuoka and Beijing. The North Koreans were found drifting aboard a small boat with the body of a fellow crew member in the Sea of Japan off the islands of Okinoshima on Jan. 6, 2012. (Kyodo)

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Rescued drifters questioned on JCG ship

SAKAIMINATO, Japan - Photo taken on the morning of Jan. 7, 2012, shows the Japan Coast Guard patrol vessel Daisen anchored off Sakaiminato, Tottori Prefecture. Three North Korean men in a wooden boat found adrift off Japan's Okinoshima Island the previous day have been questioned aboard the ship. (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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Boat found in western Japan

Investigators inspect a wooden boat which was carrying four men claiming to be from North Korea in Okinoshima, Shimane Prefecture, western Japan, on Jan. 9, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Emergency drill in remote island over missile launch

Elementary school students hold their heads and keep their bodies low during an emergency drill in the western Japan town of Okinoshima on Sept. 6, 2017, in the wake of repeated missile launches by North Korea. Around 2,000 residents participated in the nation's first drill on a remote island. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Emergency drill in remote island over missile launch

Elementary school students hold their heads and keep their bodies low during an emergency drill in the western Japan town of Okinoshima on Sept. 6, 2017, in the wake of repeated missile launches by North Korea. Around 2,000 residents participated in the nation's first drill on a remote island. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Sacred Japanese island added to UNESCO heritage list

Japan's Commissioner for Cultural Affairs Ryohei Miyata (C in 2nd row) and other Japanese officials celebrate during a session of the World Heritage Committee of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in Krakow, Poland, on July 9, 2017 after the panel decided to add the island of Okinoshima and nearby reefs plus four other sites in Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan, to UNESCO's World Heritage list. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Sacred Japanese island added to UNESCO heritage list

Undated file photo shows the island of Okinoshima (back) and nearby reefs in Fukuoka Prefecture. The World Heritage Committee of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization decided on July 9, 2017 to add the island and three reefs as well as four other related sites in southwestern Japan to UNESCO's World Heritage list. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Sacred Japanese island added to UNESCO heritage list

The World Heritage Committee of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization holds a meeting in Krakow, Poland, on July 9, 2017, to discuss new additions to UNESCO's World Heritage list. The panel decided to add the island of Okinoshima and three reefs as well as four other related sites in Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan, to the list. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Sacred Japanese island seeking UNESCO heritage listing

Photo taken July 3, 2017, shows the southwestern Japan island of Okinoshima, home to Okitsu-Miya Shrine. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization will decide as early as July 8 whether to add the sacred island to the world's cultural heritage list. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Sacred Japanese island recommended for UNESCO heritage list

Hiromi Tanii (R), the mayor of Munakata, Fukuoka Prefecture, displays a poster announcing a decision by a UNESCO preliminary review panel recommending the local island of Okinoshima and reefs nearby be registered on the world's cultural heritage list, at the city hall on May 6, 2017. The island is home to Okitsu-Miya Shrine, which was used for prayer rituals during Japan's exchanges with the Asian continent in the fourth to ninth centuries. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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ASDF begins work to salvage C-1 transport plane

HIROSHIMA, Japan - The 499-ton salvage ship Shinyo Maru (foreground) begins work July 8 to recover an Air Self-Defense Force (ASDF) transport plane that crashed in the Sea of Japan off Okinoshima Island, Shimane Prefecture, on June 28. In the background is a destroyer. The C-1 transport plane with a crew of five disappeared from radar after taking off from the ASDF Miho base in Tottori Prefecture for a 90-minute test flight. The body of one crew member was found July 4.