Dispute over Kurils Since the mid-20th century, Russia and Japan have been holding consultations in order to clinch a peace treaty as a follow-up to World War II. The Kuril Islands issue remains ...

New Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa noted that the issue of resuming visits to the graves of former Japanese smokers by their relatives is “one of the main priorities” of the Japanese ...

"I have heard that [the Kuril Islands] are interesting ... months ago when [Russian Foreign Minister Sergey] Lavrov said the dispute with Japan was over and that sovereignty was 'no longer ...

The dispute emerged after Russia issued South ... Russia also granted similar approval to North Korea. The Kuril islands were seized by Soviet troops in the closing days of World War II and ...

it remains widely acknowledged that Japan lacks the capability or resolve for a forceful resolution to the Kuril Islands dispute. This diplomatic episode underscores the complex dynamics in East ...

The Kuril Islands dispute has kept Japan and Russia from ever formally ending the hostilities between them during World War II. The Diplomat wants to know what you think about the U.S ...

emerged after its authors pointed out that some maps distributed in Russia dispute the "territorial affiliation" of the Crimean Peninsula and the Kuril Islands. Russia annexed Ukraine's Crimea in ...

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 War Two.

Under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, "there was an ongoing dialogue" with "about two dozen high-level meetings" aimed at settling the dispute over what Russia calls the Kuril Islands, Air Force Lt.

Moscow's push to speed up development of the islands is, in part, a jab at Tokyo over Abe's visit to Ukraine. It looks like the Kuril Islands dispute will head back to gridlock.

Japan and Russia dispute ownership of the northern Kuril Islands, where Russia plans to deploy missile defense batteries. The Bering Strait, of course, is the narrow waterway that separates Alaska ...

Russia, locked in a decades-old territorial dispute with Tokyo over a chain ... sovereignty over the chain--known in Russia as the Kuril Islands and in Japan as the Northern Territories--has ...