Russian diplomat, however, sees no possibility of resuming negotiations with Tokyo on peace treaty - Anadolu Ajansı ...

For decades, Moscow and Tokyo have been holding consultations in order to clinch a peace treaty as a follow-up to World War II. The southern Kuril Islands issue remains the key sticking point.

The Kuril Islands comprise an archipelago of four islands between Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula and the northernmost part of Japan, Hokkaido Island. Before World War II, the islands were a part of ...

ST. PETERSBURG, October 14. /TASS/. Ultimatum-sounding remarks by Japan’s newly-elected Prime Minister Fumio Kishida that Tokyo won’t agree to sign a peace treaty with Moscow without settling ...

Aman Vir created an interactive map of his favorite obscure islands. Some you may well have heard of, such as Midway, for ...

The blunt remarks by Medvedev, a former president who is deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, over what Moscow calls the Kuril ... during World War II, with the islands remaining ...

Earlier, a senior official proposed disposing of radioactive materials on Russia?s Kuril Islands, resulting in backlash Japanese Prime Min ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba issued an apology after comments were made by a senior official from Japan's Nuclear Waste Management Organiza ...