Japan has periodically expressed unease about Russia beefing up its military infrastructure on the disputed island chain.
The negotiations for a peace treaty to officially terminate a state of war date back to 1956, when Russia and Japan signed the Japan-Soviet Joint Declaration. The territorial dispute over islands ...
Tokyo appears to have finally realized that Putin has no intention of ever handing any of the disputed islands back to Japanese control. Japan’s sanctions on Russia could spell the end of ...
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 ...
part of the Kuril Islands archipelago, an area disputed by Russia and Japan. Before the scientists’ findings, Zavaritskii’s last known eruption was in 800 BC. “For many of Earth’s ...
Japan on Friday approved additional sanctions against Russia over its war on Ukraine, including freezing the assets of dozens ...
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.
Russia’s military also recently deployed coastal defense missile systems, the Bastion, near disputed islands off the northern coast of Hokkaido. Japan was disarmed after its WW II defeat.
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 ...
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 ...
Japan on Thursday formally inaugurated an independent mission to the NATO military alliance as Tokyo and NATO seek to bolster cooperation amid escalating tension from Russia, China and North Korea.