TASS/. The authorities of Russia’s Sakhalin region and Japan’s prefecture of Hokkaido have been discussing joint economic activities in the South Kuril Islands, the Sakhalin regional ...

MOSCOW, August 15. /TASS/. Japan and Russia are considering the possibility of organizing cruises for tourists around the South Kuril Islands as part of joint economic activities in the area ...

The archipelago, known in Russian as the Kuril Islands and in Japanese as the Northern Territories, lies off the northeast coast of Japan ... of Chishima and Habomai Islands, which organized ...

A view shows a military vehicle of the Bastion coastal missile system that went on duty on the Kuril island of Paramushir, Russia, which is one of the islands claimed by Japan and also known as ...

This photo taken in November 2019 from a Mainichi airplane 'Kibou' shows Russian-held, Japanese-claimed islands ... Habomai islet group -- were illegally seized by the Soviet Union soon after ...

KYIV — Starting in May or June, we may see negotiations for a Ukraine-Russia peace ... Treaty (1951): Japan officially renounced its claims to the Kuril Islands and South Sakhalin.

Russia has informed Japan that it will conduct shooting drills in waters north of Shikotan, one of the four Russian-held islands off Hokkaido claimed by Japan, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa ...

Tokyo maintains that the four islands -- Etorofu, Kunashiri, Shikotan and the Habomai islet group -- were illegally seized by the Soviet Union soon after Japan's surrender in World War II on Aug. 15, ...