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TANZANIA-ZANZIBAR-DAILY LIFE

(240102) -- ZANZIBAR, Jan. 2, 2024 (Xinhua) -- People entertain themselves at seaside in Zanzibar, Tanzania, Dec. 31, 2023. Zanzibar consists of two large coral islands - Zanzibar and Pemba, and more than 20 adjacent islets. For nearly 10 centuries, Zanzibar has blended the diverse cultures of Africa, Asia and Europe, becoming an important cultural attraction and holiday destination in East Africa. (Xinhua/Wang Guansen)

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TANZANIA-ZANZIBAR-DAILY LIFE

(240102) -- ZANZIBAR, Jan. 2, 2024 (Xinhua) -- People enjoy leisure time in the Stone Town of Zanzibar, Tanzania, Dec. 31, 2023. Zanzibar consists of two large coral islands - Zanzibar and Pemba, and more than 20 adjacent islets. For nearly 10 centuries, Zanzibar has blended the diverse cultures of Africa, Asia and Europe, becoming an important cultural attraction and holiday destination in East Africa. (Xinhua/Wang Guansen)

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TANZANIA-ZANZIBAR-DAILY LIFE

(240102) -- ZANZIBAR, Jan. 2, 2024 (Xinhua) -- People enjoy leisure time in the Stone Town of Zanzibar, Tanzania, Dec. 30, 2023. Zanzibar consists of two large coral islands - Zanzibar and Pemba, and more than 20 adjacent islets. For nearly 10 centuries, Zanzibar has blended the diverse cultures of Africa, Asia and Europe, becoming an important cultural attraction and holiday destination in East Africa. (Xinhua/Wang Guansen)

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TANZANIA-ZANZIBAR-DAILY LIFE

(240102) -- ZANZIBAR, Jan. 2, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Vendors sell food at a night market in Zanzibar, Tanzania, Dec. 31, 2023. Zanzibar consists of two large coral islands - Zanzibar and Pemba, and more than 20 adjacent islets. For nearly 10 centuries, Zanzibar has blended the diverse cultures of Africa, Asia and Europe, becoming an important cultural attraction and holiday destination in East Africa. (Xinhua/Wang Guansen)

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TANZANIA-ZANZIBAR-DAILY LIFE

(240102) -- ZANZIBAR, Jan. 2, 2024 (Xinhua) -- A woman walks past a church in the Stone Town of Zanzibar, Tanzania, Dec. 30, 2023. Zanzibar consists of two large coral islands - Zanzibar and Pemba, and more than 20 adjacent islets. For nearly 10 centuries, Zanzibar has blended the diverse cultures of Africa, Asia and Europe, becoming an important cultural attraction and holiday destination in East Africa. (Xinhua/Wang Guansen)

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TANZANIA-ZANZIBAR-DAILY LIFE

(240102) -- ZANZIBAR, Jan. 2, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Tourists watch a turtle on an island of Zanzibar, Tanzania, Dec. 29, 2023. Zanzibar consists of two large coral islands - Zanzibar and Pemba, and more than 20 adjacent islets. For nearly 10 centuries, Zanzibar has blended the diverse cultures of Africa, Asia and Europe, becoming an important cultural attraction and holiday destination in East Africa. (Xinhua/Wang Guansen)

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TANZANIA-ZANZIBAR-DAILY LIFE

(240102) -- ZANZIBAR, Jan. 2, 2024 (Xinhua) -- People enjoy leisure time on a beach of Zanzibar, Tanzania, Dec. 31, 2023. Zanzibar consists of two large coral islands - Zanzibar and Pemba, and more than 20 adjacent islets. For nearly 10 centuries, Zanzibar has blended the diverse cultures of Africa, Asia and Europe, becoming an important cultural attraction and holiday destination in East Africa. (Xinhua/Wang Guansen)

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Local assembly members land on Senkaku Islands

ISHIGAKI, Japan - Hitoshi Nakama (C), a member of the municipal assembly of Ishigaki in Okinawa Prefecture, returns to Ishigaki Island on the evening of Jan. 3, 2012, after landing on one of the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea, a group of islets controlled by Japan and claimed also by China and Taiwan. Two assembly members including Nakama landed on Uotsuri Island that day.

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Abe, Putin meet at APEC to discuss islets row, other issues

SYDNEY, Australia - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (L) talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin at a hotel in Sydney on Sept. 8. The two leaders met on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum summit.

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Japan, Russia hold talks on disputed islets

MOSCOW, Russia - Japan's Deputy Foreign Minister Shinsuke Sugiyama (L) and Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Igor Morgulov shake hands at the outset of their talks in Moscow on Aug. 19, 2013. They met to effectively resume negotiations aimed at resolving a long-standing territorial dispute that has prevented the two countries from signing a post-World War II peace treaty.

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Japan, S. Korea agree to improve ties

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Brunei - Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida (L) leads the way prior to holding talks with his South Korean counterpart Yun Byung Se (R) in Bandar Seri Begawan, the capital of Brunei, on July 1, 2013. In the first talks in nine months between the foreign ministers of the two countries, they agreed to cooperate closely in developing bilateral relations that have been strained over Japan's perception of wartime history and a dispute over a pair of islets controlled by Seoul which are claimed by Tokyo in the Sea of Japan.

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Japan, S. Korea agree to improve ties

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Brunei - Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida (L) and his South Korean counterpart Yun Byung Se shake hands prior to holding talks in Bandar Seri Begawan, the capital of Brunei, on July 1, 2013. In the first talks in nine months between the foreign ministers of the two countries, they agreed to cooperate closely in developing bilateral relations that have been strained over Japan's perception of wartime history and a dispute over a pair of islets controlled by Seoul which are claimed by Tokyo in the Sea of Japan.

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Japan, S. Korea agree to improve ties

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Brunei - Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida (far R) and his South Korean counterpart Yun Byung Se (far L) hold talks in Bandar Seri Begawan, the capital of Brunei, on July 1, 2013. In the first talks in nine months between the foreign ministers of the two countries, they agreed to cooperate closely in developing bilateral relations that have been strained over Japan's perception of wartime history and a dispute over a pair of islets controlled by Seoul which are claimed by Tokyo in the Sea of Japan.

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Japan, S. Korea agree to improve ties

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Brunei - Combination photo shows Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida (R) and his South Korean counterpart Yun Byung Se while holding talks in Bandar Seri Begawan, the capital of Brunei, on July 1, 2013. In the first talks in nine months between the foreign ministers of the two countries, they agreed to cooperate closely in developing bilateral relations that have been strained over Japan's perception of wartime history and a dispute over a pair of islets controlled by Seoul which are claimed by Tokyo in the Sea of Japan.

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Japan, S. Korea agree to improve ties

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Brunei - Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida (L) and his South Korean counterpart Yun Byung Se shake hands prior to holding talks in Bandar Seri Begawan, the capital of Brunei, on July 1, 2013. In the first talks in nine months between the foreign ministers of the two countries, they agreed to cooperate closely in developing bilateral relations that have been strained over Japan's perception of wartime history and a dispute over a pair of islets controlled by Seoul which are claimed by Tokyo in the Sea of Japan.

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Japan, S. Korea agree to improve ties

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Brunei - Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida (L) and his South Korean counterpart Yun Byung Se shake hands prior to holding talks in Bandar Seri Begawan, the capital of Brunei, on July 1, 2013. In the first talks in nine months between the foreign ministers of the two countries, they agreed to cooperate closely in developing bilateral relations that have been strained over Japan's perception of wartime history and a dispute over a pair of islets controlled by Seoul which are claimed by Tokyo in the Sea of Japan.

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Seoul protests Japan ceremony

SEOUL, South Korea - Cho Tai Young, a South Korean foreign ministry spokesman, releases a statement in Seoul on Feb. 22, 2013, protesting the ''Takeshima Day'' ceremony held in Japan the same day to promote its claim to islets situated about halfway between the two countries in the Sea of Japan. South Korea controls the islets and calls them Dokdo, while Japan claims the islands are part of Shimane Prefecture and calls them Takeshima.

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Seoul protests Japan ceremony

SEOUL, South Korea - Takashi Kurai, deputy chief of mission at the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, leaves the South Korean foreign ministry on Feb. 22, 2013, after being summoned by Park Jun Yong, director general of Northeast Asian affairs in the ministry, to lodge a protest against the ''Takeshima Day'' ceremony held in Japan the same day to promote its claim to islets situated about halfway between the two countries in the Sea of Japan. South Korea controls the islets and calls them Dokdo, while Japan claims the islands are part of Shimane Prefecture and calls them Takeshima.

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Seoul protests Japan ceremony

SEOUL, South Korea - South Koreans protest the ''Takeshima Day'' ceremony held in Japan to promote its claim to islets situated about halfway between the two countries in the Sea of Japan, in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on Feb. 22, 2013. South Korea controls the islets and calls them Dokdo, while Japan claims the islands are part of Shimane Prefecture and calls them Takeshima.

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Heiwado reopens China stores

CHANGSHA, China - Shoppers enter a supermarket of Japanese retailer Heiwado Co. in Changsha, Hunan Province, on Oct. 27, 2012. The company the same day reopened two of its supermarkets in Changsha damaged by anti-Japan demonstrations in September following Japan's nationalization of uninhabited islets in the East China Sea claimed by Beijing.

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Heiwado reopens China stores

CHANGSHA, China - Photo shows a supermarket of Japanese retailer Heiwado Co. in Changsha, Hunan Province, on Oct. 27, 2012. The company the same day reopened two of its supermarkets in Changsha damaged by anti-Japan demonstrations in September following Japan's nationalization of uninhabited islets in the East China Sea claimed by Beijing.

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FM Gemba on Takeshima issue

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba holds a press conference at the ministry in Tokyo on Aug. 24, 2012, on Japan's flaring dispute with South Korea over islets between the two countries.

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"Defend Diaoyu" activists' boat returns to H.K.

HONG KONG, China - Activists wave Aug. 22, 2012, from the vessel that carried them to Japanese-controlled islets in the East China Sea to assert Chinese sovereignty over the islands. The fishing boat, pictured as it returned to Hong Kong, was impounded by Japanese authorities on Aug. 15 after seven Chinese activists landed on one of the disputed islands in the East China Sea, known as Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China. The vessel was allowed to leave two days later.

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"Defend Diaoyu" activists' boat returns to H.K.

HONG KONG, China - The vessel that carried a group of Chinese activists to Japanese-controlled islets in the East China Sea to assert Chinese sovereignty over the islands arrives back in Hong Kong on Aug. 22, 2012. The fishing boat was impounded by Japanese authorities on Aug. 15 after seven Chinese activists landed on one of the disputed islands, known as Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China. The vessel was allowed to leave two days later.

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10 Japanese land on disputed Senkakus

TOKYO, Japan - People unfurl Japanese flags on Uotsuri Island, the largest of a chain of islets known as the Senkaku Islands in Japan, in the East China Sea on the morning of Aug. 19, 2012. Two are seen hoisted on a lighthouse. Ten Japanese nationals landed earlier that morning on the island in the uninhabited chain, which is at the center of a territorial row with China.

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S. Korea rejects Japan's proposal on islets

SEOUL, South Korea - Cho Tai Young, a spokesman for South Korea's Foreign Ministry, speaks at the ministry in Seoul on Aug. 17, 2012 about Japan's proposal that the two countries jointly take their dispute over a pair of sparsely inhabited islands to the International Court of Justice. South Korea rejected the Japanese proposal.

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S. Korea refuses entry to 3 Japanese lawmakers

TOKYO, Japan - Yoshitaka Shindo, a lawmaker of the main opposition Liberal Democratic Party, speaks with reporters at Haneda airport in Tokyo on Aug. 1, 2011, after returning to Japan with two other fellow LDP lawmakers from Seoul's Gimpo International Airport, where they were refused entry by South Korea earlier in the day due to their plan to visit a South Korean island near a pair of disputed islets.

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Japanese lawmakers refused entry into S. Korea

SEOUL, South Korea - Members of a conservative group protest against the planned entry of Japanese Diet members at Seoul's Gimpo International Airport on Aug. 1, 2011, holding coffins bearing the lawmakers' photos. Yoshitaka Shindo and other two parliamentarians, who planned to visit a South Korean island near a pair of disputed islets, were refused entry into South Korea upon their arrival at the airport the same day.

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Japan lodges protest over Korean geographical names in WSJ ad

NEW YORK, United States - Photo shows an advertisement for the Korea Cup International Yacht Race that appeared in The Wall Street Journal on April 26, 2011. Japan lodged a protest with the paper's publisher, Dow Jones & Co., as the advertisement uses the South Korean name of ''Dokdo'' to refer to a group of islets disputed by the two countries and refers to the ''Sea of Japan'' as the ''East Sea.''

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S. Korea slams Japan's approval of textbooks making claim to islets

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean foreign minister Kim Sung Hwan (R) summons Japanese Ambassador to South Korea Masatoshi Muto (L) to lodge a protest over Tokyo's approval of textbooks containing territorial claims to South Korean-controlled islets that lie halfway between the two countries.

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Japan's envoy escapes injury in stone-throwing incident

SEOUL, South Korea - Security officials seize a man (C) who threw a stone at Japanese Ambassador to South Korea Toshinori Shigeie during a question-and-answer session after an address by Shigeie in Seoul on July 7, 2010. The man was found to be carrying leaflets of a political group that asserts South Korea's sovereignty over a pair of islets disputed between the two countries.

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S. Korea envoy returns to Japan after protesting islets claim

TOKYO, Japan - South Korean Ambassador to Japan Kwon Chul Hyun speaks to reporters at Haneda airport in Tokyo after he returned to his Tokyo post on Aug. 5, three weeks after he was recalled to Seoul in protest against Japan's claim to sovereignty over two South Korean-controlled islets in a teaching guideline for junior high schools.

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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. Korea, Japan start EEZ demarcation talks amid islets row

SEOUL, South Korea - Ichiro Komatsu (L), director general of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's International Legal Affairs Bureau, and Park Hee Kwon, director general of the Treaties Bureau of South Korea's Foreign Affairs and Trade Ministry, pose for a photo at the start of a two-day meeting on demarcation of their countries' exclusive economic zones in Seoul on Sept. 4.

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S. Korea, Japan start EEZ demarcation talks amid islets row

SEOUL, South Korea - Japanese and South Korean delegates begin a two-day meeting on demarcation of their countries' exclusive economic zones in Seoul on Sept. 4.

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Japan, S. Korea hold EEZ demarcation talks amid islets row

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese and South Korean delegates begin a two-day meeting aimed at demarcating their exclusive economic zones at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on June 12. (Pool photo)

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Japan, S. Korea hold EEZ demarcation talks amid islets row

TOKYO, Japan - Ichiro Komatsu (R), head of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's International Legal Affairs Bureau, and Park Hee Kwon, director general for the Treaties Bureau of the South Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, pose for a photo at the start of a two-day meeting aimed at demarcating their exclusive economic zones at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on June 12. (Pool photo)

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2 survey ships leave for Tokyo after Japan-S. Korea row settlement

YONAGO, Japan - Two Japan Coast Guard survey ships, the Kaiyo (fore) and the Meiyo (back), leave for Tokyo on April 23 a day after Japan agreed with South Korea to drop its plan to carry out a maritime survey near a group of disputed islets in the Sea of Japan.

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Japan agrees to withdraw maritime survey plan near disputed islets

SEOUL, South Korea - Yu Myung Hwan (L), South Korean first vice minister for Foreign affairs and trade, and Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Shotaro Yachi (R) speak at separate press conference in Seoul on April 22 at the end of two-day talks on Japan's plan to carry out a maritime survey near disputed islets. Japan agreed to withdraw its plan for a survey near while Korea agreed to cancel plans to name seafloor topography near the islets at an international conference scheduled for June in Germany.

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Japan agrees to withdraw maritime survey plan near disputed islets

SEOUL, South Korea - Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Shotaro Yachi speaks at a press conference after two days of talks with Yu Myung Hwan, South Korea's first vice minister for foreign affairs and trade, in Seoul on April 22. Japan agreed to withdraw its plan for a survey near while Korea agreed to cancel plans to name seafloor topography near the islets at an international conference scheduled for June in Germany.

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Japanese survey ships stand by off Tottori Pref.

TOTTORI, Japan - Two Japan Coast Guard survey ships remain on standby in the Sea of Japan off Sakaiminato, Tottori Prefecture, April 21. Japan is seeking a breakthrough in a row with South Korea over Tokyo's plan to conduct a maritime survey near disputed islets.

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Japan wants S. Korea to 'understand' survey near disputed isles

TOTTORI, Japan - Two Japan Coast Guard survey vessels docked off Sakaiminato in Tottori Prefecture on the Sea of Japan coast on April 19 as Japan called on South Korea to ''understand'' its planned maritime survey near the disputed South Korean-controlled islets, called Dokdo in Korea and Takeshima in Japan.

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Japan Coast Guard vessels to conduct survey near disputed isles

YONAGO, Japan - Two Japan Coast Guard vessels are berthed at Sakai port, Tottoti Prefecture, on April 19. The ships arrived at the port earlier in the day to conduct a maritime survey near the South Korean-controlled islets in the Sea of Japan also claimed by Japan.

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Japan wants S. Korea to 'understand' survey near disputed isles

TOTTORI, Japan - Two Japan Coast Guard survey vessels docked off Sakaiminato in Tottori Prefecture on the Sea of Japan coast on April 19 as Japan called on South Korea to ''understand'' its planned maritime survey near the disputed South Korean-controlled islets, called Dokdo in Korea and Takeshima in Japan. (Kyodo)

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Japanese survey ships stand by off Tottori Pref.

TOTTORI, Japan - Two Japan Coast Guard survey ships remain on standby in the Sea of Japan off Sakaiminato, Tottori Prefecture, April 21. Japan is seeking a breakthrough in a row with South Korea over Tokyo's plan to conduct a maritime survey near disputed islets. (Kyodo)

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Japan agrees to withdraw maritime survey plan near disputed isle

SEOUL, South Korea - Yu Myung Hwan (L), South Korean first vice minister for Foreign affairs and trade, and Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Shotaro Yachi (R) speak at separate press conference in Seoul on April 22 at the end of two-day talks on Japan's plan to carry out a maritime survey near disputed islets. Japan agreed to withdraw its plan for a survey near while Korea agreed to cancel plans to name seafloor topography near the islets at an international conference scheduled for June in Germany. (Kyodo)

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Japan agrees to withdraw maritime survey plan near disputed isle

SEOUL, South Korea - Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Shotaro Yachi speaks at a press conference after two days of talks with Yu Myung Hwan, South Korea's first vice minister for foreign affairs and trade, in Seoul on April 22. Japan agreed to withdraw its plan for a survey near while Korea agreed to cancel plans to name seafloor topography near the islets at an international conference scheduled for June in Germany. (Kyodo)

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2 survey ships leave for Tokyo after Japan-S. Korea row settleme

YONAGO, Japan - Two Japan Coast Guard survey ships, the Kaiyo (fore) and the Meiyo (back), leave for Tokyo on April 23 a day after Japan agreed with South Korea to drop its plan to carry out a maritime survey near a group of disputed islets in the Sea of Japan. (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)