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UK: Protest Staged in London After India’s Airstrike on Pakistan

Protesters gathered outside the High Commission of India in London on Wednesday, May 7, in support of Pakistan, following India’s missile strikes in Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir.

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Japan teaching manuals

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's education minister Hakubun Shimomura holds a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 28, 2014. He announced that the education ministry has revised its teaching manuals for junior and senior high schools to describe the disputed Senkaku Islands and Takeshima islets as "integral parts of Japanese territory."

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Japan teaching manuals

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's education minister Hakubun Shimomura holds a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 28, 2014. He announced that the education ministry has revised its teaching manuals for junior and senior high schools to describe the disputed Senkaku Islands and Takeshima islets as "integral parts of Japanese territory."

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Japan teaching manuals

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's education minister Hakubun Shimomura holds a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 28, 2014. He announced that the education ministry has revised its teaching manuals for junior and senior high schools to describe the disputed Senkaku Islands and Takeshima islets as "integral parts of Japanese territory."

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Japan teaching manuals

TOKYO, Japan - A September 2012 photo shows (from front) Minamikojima, Kitakojima and Uotsuri islands of the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea. Japan's education minister Hakubun Shimomura announced on Jan. 28, 2014, that the education ministry has revised its teaching manuals for junior and senior high schools to describe the disputed Senkaku Islands and Takeshima islets as "integral parts of Japanese territory."

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Dispute between Russia, Georgia

SOCHI, Russia - A truck heads to Abkhazia, a breakaway region of Georgia recognized by Russia as an independent state, from Sochi, southern Russia, on Jan. 21, 2014. The same day, Georgia said Russia has illegally moved its borderline 11 kilometers deeper into the disputed territory on the grounds of securing safety ahead of the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi.

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Anti-China rally in Hanoi

HANOI, Vietnam - People holding flowers participate in an anti-China rally in Hanoi on Jan. 19, 2014, the 40th anniversary of a military conflict in the Paracel Islands that ended with effective Chinese control of the disputed maritime territory.

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Anti-China rally in Hanoi

HANOI, Vietnam - Demonstrators at an anti-China rally hold a banner with messages including one saying they will not forget people who died fighting China, in Hanoi on Jan. 19, 2014, the 40th anniversary of a military conflict in the Paracel Islands that ended with effective Chinese control of the disputed maritime territory.

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Takeshima row

TOKYO, Japan - Reporters rush to South Korean Ambassador to Japan Shin Kak Soo (R) as he was leaving the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Aug. 17, 2012. Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba had a meeting with the envoy on a bilateral territorial row over a group of islets in the Sea of Japan. The disputed territory is called Takeshima in Japan and Dokdo in South Korea.

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Anti-China demonstration in Vietnam

HANOI, Vietnam - People stage a demonstration in Hanoi on July 8, 2012, protesting against China over disputed territory in the South China Sea.

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Anti-China demonstration in Vietnam

HANOI, Vietnam - People stage a demonstration in Hanoi on July 1, 2012, to protest China's activities regarding disputed territory in the South China Sea.

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Uotsuri Island

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in June 2011 shows Uotsuri Island, part of the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea. Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara said April 16, 2012, that the Tokyo metropolitan government is in negotiations with the owners of the disputed islands with the aim of buying them by the end of this year to protect Japanese territory.

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Tokyo gov't wants to buy Senkaku Islands

WASHINGTON, United States - Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara says in a speech at a think tank forum in Washington on April 16, 2012, that the Tokyo metropolitan government is in negotiations with the owners of the disputed Senkaku Islands with the aim of buying them by the end of this year. Ishihara said the purchase is aimed at protecting Japanese territory, an apparent reference to China's claim to the Japanese-controlled islands in the East China Sea.

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Japan lawmakers fly over Senkakus

ISHIGAKI, Japan - Kazuhiro Haraguchi, a senior lawmaker of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, speaks to reporters on Ishigaki Island, Okinawa Prefecture, on Oct. 9, 2010, after a flight over the disputed Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea along with three other parliamentarians. Haraguchi said the flight confirmed for him that the islands are part of Japanese territory.

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Japan has much to lose from Takeshima reference: S. Korean envoy

TOKYO, Japan - South Korean Ambassador to Japan Kwon Chul Hyun (R) fields questions from reporters at the Japanese Foreign Ministry after talks with Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Mitoji Yabunaka on July 15, one day after Japan decided to mention for the first time two islets disputed with S. Korea in a teaching guideline for junior high schools to help teachers deepen students' understanding of Japan's territory.

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Japan has much to lose from Takeshima reference: S. Korean envoy

TOKYO, Japan - South Korean Ambassador to Japan Kwon Chul Hyun (R) shakes hands with Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Mitoji Yabunaka (L) at the Japanese Foreign Ministry on July 15. Kwon lodged a protest over Japan's decision to mention for the first time two islets disputed with S. Korea in a teaching guideline for junior high schools to help teachers deepen students' understanding of Japan's territory.

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S. Korean opposition head urges Koizumi to fix history issue

TOKYO, Japan - Park Geun Hye (R in white clothes), leader of South Korea's main opposition Grand National Party, hold talks with Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi at the premier's office in Tokyo on March 8. Park urged Koizumi to exercise leadership to resolve sticky bilateral issues over history and disputed territory.

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New Taiwan rep. 'cannot say' on disputed isles' ownership

TOKYO, Japan - Taiwan's new representative in Japan Koh Se-kai tells reporters in Tokyo on July 6 he ''cannot easily say'' whether the disputed Senkaku Islands belong to Japan, Taiwan or China despite Taiwan's official stance that the islands are its territory.

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Police take 7 Chinese to Okinawa after landing on Senkakus

NAHA, Japan - Seven Chinese activists who were arrested on March 24 on suspicion of entering Japanese territory illegally on Uotsurijima Island, one of the disputed Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea, disembark from a Japan Coast Guard patrol ship at Naha Port in Okinawa Prefecture on March 25.

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570 on Peace Boat set sail to visit disputed island

KOBE, Japan - A cruiser chartered by Peace Boat, a nongovernmental organization, leaves Kobe port on Aug. 15, taking some 570 passengers on a voyage to places including Kunashiri Island, despite a Foreign Ministry request not to visit the disputed territory.

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Cross-border terrorism in Kashmir has not ended: Fernandes

TOKYO, Japan - Indian Defense Minister George Fernandes tells a news conference in Tokyo on July 8 that terrorism emanating from Pakistan continues in Indian-administered Kashmir, but vowed next October's assembly elections in the disputed territory will proceed as scheduled, despite threats to disrupt them.

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S. Korean opposition head urges Koizumi to fix history issue

TOKYO, Japan - Park Geun Hye (R in white clothes), leader of South Korea's main opposition Grand National Party, hold talks with Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi at the premier's office in Tokyo on March 8. Park urged Koizumi to exercise leadership to resolve sticky bilateral issues over history and disputed territory. (Kyodo)

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Japan has much to lose from Takeshima reference: S. Korean envoy

TOKYO, Japan - South Korean Ambassador to Japan Kwon Chul Hyun (R) fields questions from reporters at the Japanese Foreign Ministry after talks with Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Mitoji Yabunaka on July 15, one day after Japan decided to mention for the first time two islets disputed with S. Korea in a teaching guideline for junior high schools to help teachers deepen students' understanding of Japan's territory. (Kyodo)

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Japan has much to lose from Takeshima reference: S. Korean envoy

TOKYO, Japan - South Korean Ambassador to Japan Kwon Chul Hyun (R) shakes hands with Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Mitoji Yabunaka (L) at the Japanese Foreign Ministry on July 15. Kwon lodged a protest over Japan's decision to mention for the first time two islets disputed with S. Korea in a teaching guideline for junior high schools to help teachers deepen students' understanding of Japan's territory. (Kyodo)

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Cross-border terrorism in Kashmir has not ended: Fernandes

TOKYO, Japan - Indian Defense Minister George Fernandes tells a news conference in Tokyo on July 8 that terrorism emanating from Pakistan continues in Indian-administered Kashmir, but vowed next October's assembly elections in the disputed territory will proceed as scheduled, despite threats to disrupt them.

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China - Dalian City

Dalian, China. The settlement was occupied by the British in 1858, returned to the Chinese in the 1880s, and then occupied by Japan in 1895 during the first Sino-Japanese War. With the unconditional surrender of Japan at the end of the Second World War, Dalian, passed to the Soviet Union, who had liberated the city in advance of the end of hostilities and governed the city until 1950, when the city was presented to the Chinese Communist government without any compensation. Date: circa 1910

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Dalian, China - The Harbour and Railway Depot

Dalian, China - The Harbour and Railway Depot, during Japanese occupation. The settlement was occupied by the British in 1858, returned to the Chinese in the 1880s, and then occupied by Japan in 1895 during the first Sino-Japanese War. With the unconditional surrender of Japan at the end of the Second World War, Dalian, passed to the Soviet Union, who had liberated the city in advance of the end of hostilities and governed the city until 1950, when the city was presented to the Chinese Communist government without any compensation. Date: circa 1920s

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China Navy ship sails near Senkakus, Japan vows to protect territory

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga speaks at a press conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on June 9, 2016. Regarding a Chinese Navy ship entering the contiguous zone just outside Japanese territorial waters around the disputed Senkaku Islands for the first time ever earlier in the day, Suga said "the government will take a resolute stance to fully protect" Japan's territory on land and at sea. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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U.S. commander mum on report of more active operations in S. China Sea

U.S. Pacific Command chief Adm. Harry Harris delivers a speech in Washington on Oct. 9, 2015. Harris declined to say whether the Navy would send ships into what China claims as its territory in disputed areas in the South China Sea, only saying he has offered President Barack Obama's administration various options to ensure freedom of navigation in the region and that he is "comfortable knowing these options are being considered." (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese people leave for Russian-held isles for year's 1st visa-free visit

Former Japanese residents of disputed islands off the northernmost main island of Hokkaido board a ship in Nemuro on the eastern tip for this year's first visit to the Russian-held territory claimed by Japan on June 5, 2015, under a visa-free exchange program. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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New Taiwan rep. 'cannot say' on disputed isles' ownership

TOKYO, Japan - Taiwan's new representative in Japan Koh Se-kai tells reporters in Tokyo on July 6 he ''cannot easily say'' whether the disputed Senkaku Islands belong to Japan, Taiwan or China despite Taiwan's official stance that the islands are its territory. (Kyodo)

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S. Koreans protest over Japan's move regarding disputed islets

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean protesters throw eggs and tomatoes at the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on July 16. They protested over Japan's decision to refer to islets disputed with South Korea in a teaching guideline for junior high schools, making it the first time such an educational document has mentioned the territory. The pair of South Korean-controlled rocky islets in the Sea of Japan is called Dokdo in South Korea and Takeshima in Japan. (Kyodo)

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S. Korean teachers stage protest in front of Japanese Embassy

SEOUL, South Korea - Members of South Korean teachers organizations demonstrate in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on July 15 in protest against Japan's decision the previous day to refer to two uninhabited islets disputed with South Korea in the Sea of Japan in a teaching guideline for junior high schools to help teachers deepen students' understanding of Japan's territory. (Kyodo)

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Japan envoy to S. Korea says islet row must not harm close ties

SEOUL, South Korea - With media representatives looking on, Japanese Ambassador to South Korea Toshinori Shigeie (L) meets with South Korean Foreign Minister Yoo Myung Hwan to hear a South Korean protest over Japan's description of two disputed islets in the Sea of Japan as part of its territory. Shigeie said the issue must not be allowed to harm bilateral ties. (Kyodo)

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S. Korea's Lee orders stern response to Japan's islet claim

SEOUL, Japan - A South Korean man protesting Japan's claim of sovereignty over the disputed Takeshima islands is stopped by security personnel from approaching the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on July 14. South Korean President Lee Myung Bak instructed his government to deal ''sternly and strictly'' with Japan after the Japanese education ministry released a new school teaching guideline on July 14 stating that the disputed islets are Japanese territory. (Kyodo)

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Uotsuri Island

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in June 2011 shows Uotsuri Island, part of the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea. Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara said April 16, 2012, that the Tokyo metropolitan government is in negotiations with the owners of the disputed islands with the aim of buying them by the end of this year to protect Japanese territory. (Kyodo)

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Tokyo gov't wants to buy Senkaku Islands

WASHINGTON, United States - Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara says in a speech at a think tank forum in Washington on April 16, 2012, that the Tokyo metropolitan government is in negotiations with the owners of the disputed Senkaku Islands with the aim of buying them by the end of this year. Ishihara said the purchase is aimed at protecting Japanese territory, an apparent reference to China's claim to the Japanese-controlled islands in the East China Sea. (Kyodo)

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Japan lawmakers fly over Senkakus

ISHIGAKI, Japan - Kazuhiro Haraguchi, a senior lawmaker of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, speaks to reporters on Ishigaki Island, Okinawa Prefecture, on Oct. 9, 2010, after a flight over the disputed Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea along with three other parliamentarians. Haraguchi said the flight confirmed for him that the islands are part of Japanese territory. (Kyodo)

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Ex-residents' trip to disputed isles canceled due to fog

Former Japanese residents of disputed isles off Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido and family members listen to an announcement on June 19, 2017, in Hokkaido's Nakashibetsu that a planned trip for them to visit the islands the same day has been canceled due to fog. It would have been the first such trip by air for the former residents to the Russian-held territory known as the Southern Kurils in Russia and the Northern Territories in Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-residents' trip to disputed isles canceled due to fog

Former Japanese residents of disputed isles off Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido and family members listen to an announcement on June 19, 2017, in Hokkaido's Nakashibetsu that a planned trip for them to visit the islands the same day has been canceled due to fog. It would have been the first such trip by air for the former residents to the Russian-held territory known as the Southern Kurils in Russia and the Northern Territories in Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Police take 7 Chinese to Okinawa after landing on Senkakus

NAHA, Japan - Seven Chinese activists who were arrested on March 24 on suspicion of entering Japanese territory illegally on Uotsurijima Island, one of the disputed Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea, disembark from a Japan Coast Guard patrol ship at Naha Port in Okinawa Prefecture on March 25. (Kyodo)

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570 on Peace Boat set sail to visit disputed island

KOBE, Japan - A cruiser chartered by Peace Boat, a nongovernmental organization, leaves Kobe port on Aug. 15, taking some 570 passengers on a voyage to places including Kunashiri Island, despite a Foreign Ministry request not to visit the disputed territory. (Kyodo)