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TAKESHIMA

Japan Times
JAPAN / CHUBU CONNECTION
Apr 4, 2016
Friendly employees have visitors flocking to Takeshima Aquarium in Aichi
Visitors to Takeshima Aquarium in Gamagori, Aichi Prefecture, have increased sharply thanks to a number of innovative ideas and strategies implemented by its staff.
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 22, 2016
Government rep attends 'Takeshima Day' event to stress Japan's claim on islets
The central government sent a representative Monday to the "Takeshima Day" ceremony, which highlights Japan's sovereignty claims over a pair of outcroppings in the Sea of Japan controlled by South Korea.
JAPAN / Politics
Jan 22, 2016
South Korea raps Japan's renewed claim over disputed islets
South Korea on Friday rapped Japan for renewing its territorial claim over a pair of South Korea-controlled islets in the Sea of Japan.
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 4, 2015
South Korea to hold naval exercise near Japan-claimed islets next week
South Korea's navy plans to hold the second part of a biannual exercise next week, which it carries out around a pair of islets it controls, but which are claimed by Japan, a Defense Ministry official said Wednesday.
JAPAN / Politics
Apr 7, 2015
Tokyo rejects South Korean, Chinese protests over textbook changes
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga on Tuesday dismissed criticism by China and South Korea of the latest revisions to school textbooks, saying the changes reflect a fair assessment of expert views on topics that relate to ongoing territorial disputes.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 23, 2015
South Korea summons Japanese diplomat to protest Takeshima ceremony
South Korea's Foreign Ministry on Monday summoned a senior Japanese diplomat to lodge a complaint over Tokyo's dispatch of a government representative to an annual ceremony in Shimane Prefecture pressing Japan's claim to a pair of South Korean-administered islets.
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 22, 2015
Abe dispatches envoy to Takeshima Day ceremony in Shimane
As Shimane holds its annual ceremony for the Takeshima Day ceremony, a central government representative promises to find a peaceful resolution to a territorial dispute with South Korea over the islets.
JAPAN
Feb 17, 2015
High-ranking official to attend Takeshima Day ceremony
The government is sending a high-ranking official to the ceremony this Sunday commemorating the day of Japan's incorporation of the Takeshima islets, despite the organizer's request for a Cabinet member.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 17, 2015
How two small rocks stop Japan and South Korea from getting along
They were once a source of fortune for Japanese fishermen hunting sea lions and abalone, but now the pair of remote rocks in the Sea of Japan are preventing Japan and South Korea from getting along.
JAPAN
Feb 10, 2015
Senior government official to attend Takeshima Day ceremony
The government plans to send a senior official to a ceremony this month commemorating the designation of two islets controlled by South Korea as Japanese territory.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 29, 2015
Lee decided before becoming South Korean president to visit disputed islets
Then-South Korean President Lee Myung-bak decided to visit a pair of South Korean-controlled islets in 2012 that lie at the center of a dispute with Japan — the first ever by a South Korean head of state — before he took office, according to his memoir, which hit shelves on Monday.
JAPAN / Politics
Jan 21, 2015
South Korea protests Takeshima status in Japanese defense paper
South Korea on Wednesday lodged a protest over Japan's distribution of a Korean-language version of its defense white paper depicting the South Korean islets of Dokdo as Japanese territory, the Yonhap News Agency reported.
JAPAN
Dec 26, 2014
Interest in Japan-South Korea isle dispute on wane in Japan: poll
Public interest in the sovereignty dispute involving a tiny pair of Korean-controlled outcroppings Japan claims as the Takeshima Islands but South Korea calls Dokdo has fallen to 66.9 percent from 71.1 percent in June, a Cabinet Office survey said Thursday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 23, 2014
U.S. shies away from Takeshima/Dokdo dispute in response to online petitions
Washington has urged Tokyo and Seoul to settle their sovereignty dispute over a pair of South Korea-controlled, Japan-claimed islets, an issue that has damaged ties between the two U.S. allies.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 13, 2014
Barren rocks fuel South Korean passions in islet spat with Japan
Holding a notepad full of questions, 15-year-old Ko Yu-jeong rushes up to a South Korean diplomat after his speech, asking how she can better argue the case for her country's control of a set of islets also claimed by Japan.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Jun 19, 2014
S. Korea plans live-fire drill near Takeshima
Seoul tells Tokyo that a maritime 'firing drill' will be held near two disputed rocks it controls even though the firing zone overlaps an area claimed by Japan.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 10, 2014
Korean buys on Tsushima rouse rightists' fears
South Korean businesses are increasingly acquiring real estate around the Maritime Self-Defense Force's base on Tsushima Island, arousing speculation that some of the purchases are related to espionage by Seoul.
JAPAN / Politics
Apr 4, 2014
Seoul blasts textbook plan
South Korea on Friday criticized a move by Japan to include the government's territorial claims to two tiny South Korean-held islands in elementary school textbooks.
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 22, 2014
VIP attends Takeshima ceremony
A senior government official attended a ceremony Saturday commemorating the "incorporation" of two tiny islets at the center of a territorial dispute with South Korea.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 21, 2014
Shimane locals ambivalent on disputed islets
Shimane Prefecture residents and historical researchers have expressed mixed feelings ahead of Takeshima Day, designated by local ordinance in 2005 and set to be marked Saturday under considerable scrutiny because of its link to a territorial row with South Korea.
Weak yen fattens tourist wallets in Japan
People visit the Ameya Yokocho market in Tokyo's Ueno district during the Golden Week holiday on Tuesday.
Number of vacant homes in Japan hits record high of 9 million
A vacant house in Tokyo is seen demolished in January 2020.
'So hot you can't breathe': Extreme heat hits the Philippines
A pedestrian cools himself with a folding hand fan as he waits for a ride along a road in Manila on Wednesday, as extreme heat hit the Philippines.
Kishida sets sights on energy and climate in South America trip
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will use a policy speech in Sao Paulo to set out his vision for ties between Japan and South America, almost 10 years after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe advocated for stronger ties between the two in the same city.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.
Kishida sets sights on energy and climate in South America trip
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will use a policy speech in Sao Paulo to set out his vision for ties between Japan and South America, almost 10 years after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe advocated for stronger ties between the two in the same city.
Yellow sand allergy: A health issue made worse by climate change
A screenshot of the Meteorological Agency's satellite image of clouds and yellow sand (in pink) on Sunday.
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
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Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.

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