Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev visited islands claimed by both Russia and Japan on Tuesday, provoking an angry reaction from Tokyo. He held a meeting with the governor of Sakhalin and ...

On Tuesday, the leaders of Japan and Russia will hold talks on what remains one of the world’s longest-running unresolved international disputes. The Kuril Islands, referred to as the Southern ...

TOKYO — Japan describes four disputed islands as “illegally occupied by Russia” in the latest version of a diplomatic report released Friday, using stronger language to describe the ...

TOKYO — A diplomatic clash between Japan and Russia over disputed islands intensified on Tuesday when Japan summoned home its ambassador to Moscow, a day after President Dmitri A. Medvedev of ...

Because of the dispute, Russia and Japan have not yet signed a peace treaty to end World War II. Deported Japanese people migrated north to the islands in the 18th and 19th century, including ...

NEMURO, Japan — In late November 1941, a Japanese fleet that included six aircraft carriers launched from what was one of Japan’s northernmost points — Etorofu Island’s Hitokappu Bay ...

While Japan is still embroiled in noisy territorial spats with China and South Korea over who rightfully owns certain islands, another dispute with its giant northern neighbor, Russia, may be ...

On Tuesday, the leaders of Japan and Russia will hold talks on what remains one of the world’s longest-running unresolved international disputes. The Kuril Islands, referred to as the Southern ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan describes four islands whose ownership it disputes with Moscow as “illegally occupied by Russia” in the latest version of a diplomatic report released Friday, using ...

On Tuesday, the leaders of Japan and Russia will hold talks on what remains one of the world’s longest-running unresolved international disputes. The Kuril Islands, referred to as the Southern ...