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 ...

Japanese fighter aircraft intercepted a Russian spy plane over the waters west of the nation on Tuesday, while a suspected ...

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

MOSCOW, Russia — The governor of Russia’s Pacific island region of Sakhalin has declared an emergency after a Chinese cargo ...

The Kuril Islands issue remains the sticking point since after WWII the islands were handed over to the Soviet Union while Japan laid claims to the four southern islands TOKYO, July 20.

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 ...

Japan and Russia signed a treaty that stipulated Japanese sovereignty over four islands that later came under Russian control since the end of WWII. Follow our coverage of the war on the ...

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 ...

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