Japan's prime minister will be in Moscow Tuesday, amid speculation that Russia and Japan might be about to sign a peace treaty. The two countries have still not officially ended World War II.

In the wake of World War II, ... The dispute continues until today, meaning Russia and Japan still have no official document of peace that reconciles their post-war relationship.

During the Russian Civil War in 1919, Japan sent 70,000 troops to support the anti-Communist White Army. The Imperial Japanese forces nearly annexed Siberia before withdrawing.

Russia and Japan have still not formally ended World War II hostilities because of the standoff over islands just off Japan’s northernmost island of Hokkaido, known in Russia as the Kurils and ...

In fact, while most of Washington watched the World War II-era’s Western Front, the Eastern Front has suddenly sparked some concern. And with recent events between Japan and Russia, Biden may ...

Japan and Russia never signed a peace treaty at the end of World War II, with Soviet troops left occupying remote islands to the north of the Japanese mainland when the fighting stopped.

For Russia, they are the justly earned spoils of war. For Japan, the southern Kurile Islands are stolen territory, lost to Soviet aggression and Western interference. More than 70 years after the ...

Putin with Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi One of the most paradoxical results of World War II is the fact that Russia and Japan still have not signed a peace treaty ending the conflict.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine has led to warnings from Moscow and Washington that one false move could precipitate a catastrophic global conflict.. But while the threat of World War Three remains a ...

Japan reacted angrily on Tuesday after Russia withdrew from peace treaty talks with Japan and froze joint economic projects related to the disputed Kuril Islands because of sanctions imposed by ...