The Kuril Islands are a chain of 56 islands stretching from the southernmost tip of the far eastern Russian oblast of Kamchatka to Hokkaido, the northernmost island of Japan. ... 20,000 people, ...

Japanese people migrated north to the islands in the 18th and 19th century, ... Japan renounced "all right, title and claim to the Kuril Islands", as well as over other possessions.

Hundreds of Russians protested against a feared giveaway of strategic islands to Japan on Sunday, two days before a key summit between the countries' leaders in Moscow. Between 300 and 500 people ...

The participants include 60 people, mostly pupils and teachers ... Visa-free travel between Russia’s South Kuril Islands and Japan began in 1992 in accordance with an intergovernmental ...

On Tuesday, the leaders of Japan and Russia will hold talks on what remains one of the world’s longest-running unresolved international disputes. The Kuril Islands, referred to as the Southern ...

NEMURO, Japan — Soviet soldiers barged into Hirotoshi Kawata’s home on Sept. 4, 1945, searching for hidden Japanese soldiers and valuables. Kawata, then 11, remembers understanding only two ...

Moscowabandoned talks on a WWII peace treaty and ended visa-free visits for Japanese people to the Kuril Islands after Japan sanctioned Russia over the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

07/31/2023 July 31, 2023. Tokyo and Moscow have been locked in a dispute over the Kuril Islands for decades. The war in Ukraine has given some Japanese people hope that that they could be wrested ...

On Tuesday, the leaders of Japan and Russia will hold talks on what remains one of the world’s longest-running unresolved international disputes. The Kuril Islands, referred to as the Southern ...

As Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe holds talks in Russia with President Vladimir Putin, the BBC looks at the background to the long-standing territorial dispute between the two nations. Image ...

Hundreds of Russians protested against a feared giveaway of strategic islands to Japan on Sunday, two days before a key summit between the countries' leaders in Moscow. Between 300 and 500 people ...