Japan and Russia are also locked in a territorial dispute surrounding the Kuril Islands, which Tokyo calls its Northern ...

Japan has dispatched a surveillance plane and a navy ship after spotting a Russian submarine off the coast of a southwestern ...

the bluebook dropped the mention of the importance of Japan-Russia ties and said there was no prospect for talks of a peace treaty between the two countries to officially end World War II.

The Kuril Islands dispute has kept Japan and Russia from ever formally ending the hostilities between them during World War II. Japan's prime minister may finally have to give up hope of making ...

After the end of World War II, all of the Kuril Islands ... sanctions over the situation in Ukraine, Russia halted peace treaty negotiations with Japan and halted dialogue on joint economic ...

Russia, the main successor state to the Soviet Union, and Japan have never signed a peace treaty formally ending their hostilities during World War II, with the islands remaining the primary ...

So far, there are no signals from Tokyo that it plans to lift or “soften” any other sanctions. On November 12, Russian state media quoted Japan’s foreign minister, Takeshi Iwaya, as saying that ...

TASS/. The establishment of September 3 in Russia as a day marking not only an anniversary of the end of World War II, but also of the victory over militaristic Japan should serve as a reminder of ...