it was stated that Moscow had informed Tokyo that it cannot coordinate any timeframes for its consultations on fishing due to Japan’s anti-Russian restrictions Japan eager to resume humanitarian ...

The Tokyo-based group advocates for Japan’s claim over Russia’s Kuril Islands — known in Japan as the Northern Territories — whose disputed status has prevented the two countries from ...

Dispute over Kurils Since the mid-20th century, Russia and Japan have been holding consultations in order to clinch a peace treaty as a follow-up to World War II. The Kuril Islands issue remains ...

part of the disputed chain known as the Kuril Islands in Russia and the Northern Territories in Japan, on August... Former Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev meeting with air force pilots ...

April 16, 1945 marked the start of the top-secret U.S.-Soviet operation “Project Hula,” and a Japan-Soviet territorial ...

Japan refers to the four southernmost Kuril Islands — Kunashir, Shikotan, Iturup, and the Habomai islets — as its “Northern Territories” and continues to dispute Russia’s sovereignty over them. The ...

Russia said ... the return of a disputed island chain annexed by Moscow during World War II, amid simmering tensions with Tokyo. The archipelago, known in Russian as the Kuril Islands and in ...

Japan's prime minister may finally have to give up hope of making progress on a long-standing territorial dispute.

The blunt remarks by Medvedev, a former president who is deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, over what Moscow calls the Kuril islands are likely to anger Japan which lays claim to four ...

Russia withdrew from peace treaty talks with Japan and froze joint economic projects related to the disputed Kuril Islands because of Japanese sanctions over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

The archipelago, known in Russia as the Kuril Islands and in Japan as the Northern Territories ... teaching material to children about the dispute using a puffin mascot named "Erika-chan." ...