For the first time in recent years, Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has toughened his rhetoric on the problem of the ...

Read also First organized visit of Japanese tourists to Kuril Islands to take place on October 11-16 According to the earlier announced plan, a group of 50 people, including tourists, diplomats ...

an indigenous people who now live mostly on Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost island, but whose lands once spanned from northern ...

They developed their own distinct language, history and culture, which were quite different from Japanese, and also lived in northern Honshu, Sakhalin and the Kuril islands. The Ainu people hunted ...

With a creak, not always according to plan, but many of Trump's undertakings are still moving forward, bringing amazing ...

"And, most importantly, the local people see it too ... made in 1991 on visa-free travel between Russia’s South Kuril Islands and Japan, as well as the1999 agreement on simplified travel ...

while those captured Japanese soldiers were interned in Siberia and many didn’t return home until 1950.... Since the end of the Second World War seventy-five years ago, the Kuril Islands have ...

The local people have been looking forward ... around 468 million dollars in what they call the Kuril Islands, some of which are claimed by Japan. But official documents released in December ...

The unresolved clash over who has sovereignty over the chain--known in Russia as the Kuril Islands and in Japan as the Northern ... every Feb. 7 to remind people of its claim.

The 30th resident of a unique preferential treatment appeared on the Kuril Islands, which zeroes taxes for 20 years. Ettulangi Travel Company is implementing a project of glamping and sea cruises on ...

The Kuril Islands still remain a mystery to the rest of the world The popular science film Land of the People rediscovers the unique territory of the Kuril Islands with their unique human and ...

Crops failed, and people starved. Until now ... and no such eruption occurred in 1831. That left the Kuril Islands between Japan and Russia. Though currently under Russian control, their ownership ...