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 ...

Now, a study published last week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences pins the blame on Zavaritskii caldera, ...

Senior government officials have recently made remarks that appear to support a suggestion that Japan should select the disputed Northern Territories ... is geographically closest to the four islands ...

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 ...

Japan is facing backlash over its territorial disputes with Russia ... between the two nations, including territorial disputes. Beijing, for instance, views Tokyo's jurisdiction over the Diaoyu ...

The volcano is located on Simushir Island, in the Kurils chain of islands – a disputed territory between Russia and ... 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 ...