TOKYO, August 16. /TASS/. The first trip to the southern Kuril Islands, organized for Japanese tourists, will last six days, the Kyodo news agency reported on Friday, adding that up to 35 people ...

TOKYO, May 23. /TASS/. A group of citizens of southern Kuril Islands arrived on Thursday in northern Japan under a visa-free exchange program, authorities of the Nemuro port in the Hokkaido ...

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.

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 ...

Japan lays claim to the Russian-held southern Kuril islands that Tokyo calls the Northern Territories, a territorial row that dates back to the end of World War Two when Soviet troops seized them ...