At this moment, Pacific Fleet forces are moving from their bases to the designated exercise zones,” Russia’s Defense Ministry ...

By Damian Flanagan There is a curious historical footnote that tends to be forgotten about the Japanese imperial expansion of the late 19th and early ...

Russian missile troops held drills on a disputed island which both Japan and Russia claim as their own, the Interfax news agency cited Russia's Defense Ministry as saying on Thursday. Soviet troops ...

Longtime U.S. treaty ally Japan said it dispatched naval vessels to its northern and southwestern seas this week to monitor ...

Land disputes run deep. Russia and Japan’s competing claims over the four islands off the northeast coast of Hokkaido – Japan's second-largest island – date back to at least the 19th century.

Russia plans to deploy new weapons on islands that are at the center of a decades-long territorial dispute with Japan, according to former President Dmitry Medvedev, who’s the current deputy ...

MOSCOW – Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that he will definitely one day visit the Southern Kuril Islands, which are at the centre of a dispute with Japan that has lasted since World ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that he will definitely one day visit the Southern Kuril Islands which are at the centre of a dispute with Japan that has lasted since World War Two.

07/31/2023 July 31, 2023. Tokyo and Moscow have been locked in a dispute over the Kuril Islands for decades. The war in Ukraine has given some Japanese people hope that that they could be wrested ...

Russia's defense ministry stated that it has deployed mobile coastal defense missile systems on the Kuril Islands — part of a strategically located chain of islands that stretch between Japan ...