TASS/. The Japanese government’s position on the attribution of the "four northern islands" (that is what Japan calls Russia’s South Kuril Islands - TASS) has not changed, Japan’s Chief ...

Visa-free travel between Russia’s South Kuril Islands and Japan began in 1992 in accordance with an intergovernmental agreement aimed at improving mutual understanding between the two countries ...

As long as Japan maintains its anti-Russia stance, negotiations on a peace treaty between the two countries can not be held, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Rudenko said."They can talk about ...

The Japanese Foreign Ministry said in its 2024 annual report that despite strained relations with Russia, it remains committed to signing a peace treaty in hopes of reclaiming the southern Kuril ...

Then several agreements were attempted: • The San Francisco Peace Treaty (1951): Japan officially renounced its claims to the Kuril Islands and South Sakhalin. But the Soviet Union did not sign ...

A view shows a military vehicle of the Bastion coastal missile system that went on duty on the Kuril island of Paramushir, Russia, which is one of the islands claimed by Japan and also known as ...

The archipelago, known in Russia as the Kuril Islands and in Japan as the Northern Territories, lies off the northeast coast of Japan. The four islands were captured by the Soviet military during ...

The Kalibr cruise missile, which has a range of up to 1,550 miles, has seen extensive use in strikes against Ukraine.

South Korea’s foreign ministry has summoned a senior official from the Japanese Embassy in Seoul to protest the reopening of a museum in Tokyo that misrepresents the Dokdo islets ...

The blunt remarks by Medvedev, a former president who is deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, over what Moscow calls the Kuril islands are likely to anger Japan which lays claim to four ...

The archipelago, known in Russian as the Kuril Islands and in Japanese as the Northern Territories, lies off the northeast coast of Japan.