The participants include 60 people, mostly pupils and teachers ... According to the program, former Japanese residents of the southern Kuril Islands and persons accompanying them will make nine ...

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 ...

Along with the strange atmospheric effects, people around the world experienced ... lesser-known volcanic chains, including the Kuril Islands, which stretch between Japan and Russia.

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 ...

Russia’s defense minister intends to station a new Russian army division on the disputed Kuril Islands in 2017. The deadlock is rooted in the entrenched positions of both sides.

TASS/. Japan’s government believes that visa-free travel to the Southern Kuril Islands made on September 23-24 by their former residents and people who accompanied them helped deepen mutual ...

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.