The man lives on Kunashiri island, one of four disputed islands administered by Russia but also claimed by Japan which Japan calls the Northern Territories, off the northeast coast of Hokkaido.

China and Japan are two of Asia’s most powerful nations and the region’s biggest trading partners. Yet centuries of intense ...

Russia and Japan have never signed an official peace treaty to end the second world war because of a dispute over the Kuril Islands. The Soviet army seized the Kurils at the end of the war in 1945 ...

It is situated on Simushir Island, a part of the Kuril Islands archipelago -- a disputed area by Russia and Japan. As per their analysis, the last eruption from Zavaritskii was in 800 BC.

The islands have been characterised by a territorial dispute between Russia and Japan, which dates back to the end of World War Two when Soviet troops seized them from the Japanese. The row has ...

China claims the self-ruled island of Taiwan ... and leaders from Japan, South Korea, India, Australia and New Zealand. ASEAN has treaded carefully on the sea dispute with China, which is the ...

The volcano is located on Simushir Island, in the Kurils chain of islands – a disputed territory between ... of Kuril Islands off the coast of Russia and Japan. Scientists say that during ...

EAM S Jaishankar said that India's approach with regards to some relationships like US, China, Pakistan and Israel has been with "far greater realism." He said that India has been able to overcome ...

which is part of the disputed Kuril Islands between Russia and Japan. During the Cold War, the Soviet Union used a flooded volcanic crater on Simushir as a secret nuclear submarine base ...

which is part of the Kuril Islands – a disputed territory between Russia and Japan. They also discovered the eruption occurred sometime during spring or summer. The moment in the lab when we ...