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 ...

It is likely that there will not be a peace agreement between Ukraine and Russia this year — or ever one at all. If ...

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 ...

Japan has periodically expressed unease about Russia beefing up its military infrastructure on the disputed island chain.

The negotiations for a peace treaty to officially terminate a state of war date back to 1956, when Russia and Japan signed the Japan-Soviet Joint Declaration. The territorial dispute over islands ...

Furthermore, the Russian president does not rule out a U.S. troop presence on the disputed islands if controlled by Japan. Russia’s defense minister intends to station a new Russian army ...

The Kuril Islands dispute has kept Japan and Russia from ever formally ending the hostilities between them during World War II. Japan's prime minister may finally have to give up hope of making ...

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 ... tip of Russia’s Kamchatka ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba vowed Friday to resolve a longstanding territorial dispute between Japan and Russia that has prevented ...

Their two countries have been in dispute for seven decades over ... sovereignty over the islands, known in Russia as the Kurile islands and in Japan as the Northern Territories.

The dispute over the ... part of the Soviet Union. But Japan does not agree that the islands of Iturup, Kunashir, Shikotan and the Habomai island group belong to Russia. Tokyo calls the islands ...

With growing threats from China and North Korea, Japan is accelerating its hypersonic weapons program. This month, Japan’s Ministry of Defense (MOD) announced that it had successfully conducted ...