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Fatal accident off Japan's southernmost island

TOKYO, Japan - File photo take in April 2005 shows Okinotori Island, Japan's southernmost territory. Five construction workers have died and two remain missing after a floating pier they were building overturned on March 30, 2014, and they fell into the sea off the island, the land ministry said.

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Japan's Okinotori Island

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in April 2005 shows Japan's Okinotori Island, nearly 1,800 kilometers south of Tokyo. Japan plans to begin building facilities on the island in fiscal 2011 to develop marine resources.

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Japan plans to put lighthouse on disputed Pacific isle

TOKYO, Japan - The Japan Coast Guard has decided to build a lighthouse on Okinotori Island (photo taken in April 2005), Japan's southernmost island, government officials said Aug. 25. China disputes Japan's territorial claim, saying Okinotori is not an island but merely a rock.

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Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara visits Okinotori Island

OKINOTORI ISLAND, Japan - Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara holds a Japanese flag on Higashikojima islet of Okinotori Island on May 20. The uninhabited island is located some 1,700 kilometers south of Tokyo. (Pool photo)

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(1)Boat returns after fishing near disputed Okinotori Island

TOKYO, Japan - A Japanese fishing boat heads home from waters near Okinotori Island, some 1,700 kilometers south of Tokyo, on April 19 after operating in the area to assert it is in Japan's exclusive economic zone, though China says otherwise. The fishing operations in the waters near the uninhabited island were in response to a request by Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara.

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(2)Boat returns after fishing near disputed Okinotori Island

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a chartered Kyodo News plane on April 19 shows Okinotori Island, some 1,700 kilometers south of Tokyo, where a Japanese fishing boat conducted fishing operations in response to a request by Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara to assert it is in Japan's exclusive economic zone, though China says otherwise.

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(1)Japan asks China to halt maritime survey within Japan's EEZ

TOKYO, Japan - A Chinese maritime research ship is spotted within Japan's exclusive economic zone near Okinotori Island in the Pacific on Dec. 7. The photo was provided by the Defense Agency's Maritime Staff Office. (Kyodo)

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Chinese vessel again spotted in Japan's economic waters

TOKYO, Japan - A Chinese maritime survey vessel is spotted in Japan's exclusive economic zone around its southernmost island of Okinotori in the Pacific on Dec. 10. Photo provided by the Maritime Self-Defense Force. (Kyodo)

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(2)Boat returns after fishing near disputed Okinotori Island

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a chartered Kyodo News plane on April 19 shows Okinotori Island, some 1,700 kilometers south of Tokyo, where a Japanese fishing boat conducted fishing operations in response to a request by Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara to assert it is in Japan's exclusive economic zone, though China says otherwise. (Kyodo)

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(1)Boat returns after fishing near disputed Okinotori Island

TOKYO, Japan - A Japanese fishing boat heads home from waters near Okinotori Island, some 1,700 kilometers south of Tokyo, on April 19 after operating in the area to assert it is in Japan's exclusive economic zone, though China says otherwise. The fishing operations in the waters near the uninhabited island were in response to a request by Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara. (Kyodo)

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Japan plans to put lighthouse on disputed Pacific isle

TOKYO, Japan - The Japan Coast Guard has decided to build a lighthouse on Okinotori Island (photo taken in April 2005), Japan's southernmost island, government officials said Aug. 25. China disputes Japan's territorial claim, saying Okinotori is not an island but merely a rock. (Kyodo)

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Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara visits Okinotori Island

OKINOTORI ISLAND, Japan - Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara holds a Japanese flag on Higashikojima islet of Okinotori Island on May 20. The uninhabited island is located some 1,700 kilometers south of Tokyo. (Pool photo)(Kyodo)

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Japan's Okinotori Island

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in April 2005 shows Japan's Okinotori Island, nearly 1,800 kilometers south of Tokyo. Japan plans to begin building facilities on the island in fiscal 2011 to develop marine resources. (Kyodo)

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Japan to protest China survey near southern isle

TOKYO, Japan - Sources said May 9 Japan plans to officially protest China's continued oceanographic surveying in Japan's exclusive economic zone around Okinotori Island in the Pacific (photo taken in 1999 and provided by the land ministry). (Kyodo)