The 20th edition of an annual ceremony to assert Japan's claim over a group of South Korea-controlled islets in the Sea of Ja ...

Seoul strongly protested Japan's renewed territorial claim over Dokdo on Saturday, following an event held in Shimane Prefecture laying claim to South Korea's easternmost islets. Seoul's foreign ...

Protesting Japan's Dokdo sovereignty claim Civic groups hold a protest in Seoul on Feb. 22, 2025, against Japan's renewed ...

A wooden notice resembling a kosatsu (signboard that announced official edicts in feudal Japan) was recently erected outside ...

SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Xinhua) -- South Korea on Saturday protested at Japan's repeated territorial claims to the disputed islets lying halfway between the two countries, called Dokdo by South Korea and ...

was soundly defeated by Akiko Kamei of the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan on April 28. It was a historic setback for the LDP. Shimane was the only prefecture where the ...

Like many communities in rural Japan, Izumo City in Shimane Prefecture is struggling with a declining population. Many of its younger residents head off to major cities like Tokyo and Osaka and to ...

Shimane Prefecture draws visitors to Izumo Taisha, a shrine where Shinto deities gather to determine future connections.

The Japanese government is reportedly planning to dispatch a vice minister-level official to an annual ceremony celebrating Japan’s claim over Dokdo, the South Korean ...

Under the new plan, for example, the prefectural governments of Toyama, Fukushima and Shimane will send officials to Shizuoka ...