2 Japanese awarded honorary citizenship from S. Korea province

2 Japanese awarded honorary citizenship from S. Korea province

Shiozo Nishimori (R), former speaker of the Kochi prefectural assembly in western Japan, and Japanese journalist Masaki Tachikawa (R) receive on Oct. 20, 2015, an honorary citizen award from South Jeolla Province in southwestern South Korea in the in the provincial city of Yeongam for their efforts to promote civil exchanges between the two countries. Tachikawa deepened friendship with the late former South Korean President Kim Dae Jung who hailed from the province and reported on the country's democratization. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Japanese awarded honorary citizen status by S. Korea province

Japanese awarded honorary citizen status by S. Korea province

Shiozo Nishimori (R), former speaker of the Kochi prefectural assembly in western Japan, receives on Oct. 20, 2015, an honorary citizen award from South Jeolla Province in southwestern South Korea in the provincial city of Yeongam for his efforts to promote civil exchanges between the two countries. He has helped build a monument dedicated to Chizuko Tauchi, known as the "Japanese mother of Korean orphans," in the western Japanese city of Kochi. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Ship of Korean envoys to Japan

Ship of Korean envoys to Japan

South Korea's National Research Institute of Maritime Cultural Heritage invites people on Feb. 22, 2018, to the site where workers are reproducing a wooden ship used to send envoys to Japan by the Korean Dynasty between the 17th and 19th centuries, in Yeongam, South Korea. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Ship of Korean envoys to Japan

Ship of Korean envoys to Japan

South Korea's National Research Institute of Maritime Cultural Heritage invites people on Feb. 22, 2018, to the site where workers are reproducing a wooden ship used to send envoys to Japan by the Korean Dynasty between the 17th and 19th centuries, in Yeongam, South Korea. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Ship of Korean envoys to Japan

Ship of Korean envoys to Japan

South Korea's National Research Institute of Maritime Cultural Heritage invites people on Feb. 22, 2018, to the site where workers are reproducing a wooden ship used to send envoys to Japan by the Korean Dynasty between the 17th and 19th centuries, in Yeongam, South Korea. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo