The dispute over the Russian-controlled Kuril Islands dates back to World War II. On Tuesday, the Japanese Foreign Ministry reiterated its commitment to a peace treaty with Russia in its 2025 ...

The Soviet Union annexed the Southern Kuril Islands at the end of World War II. In 1956, the USSR signed a peace declaration with Japan, promising to return the islands of Shikotan and Habomai once a ...

Russian authorities on Monday designated Japan’s Northern Territories Issue Association as an “undesirable organization,” ...

Newsweek's map below illustrates the earthquakes ... Other powerful earthquakes hit near the Solomon Islands, Japan, Timor Leste, Northern Mariana Islands, Kuril Islands, Indonesia, Papa New ...

There are the big fractures, where potential world wars – hot and cold – are simmering. Then there are the smaller fractures, such as those between the European Union and its neighbours: Northern ...

This is stated in the annual report on diplomacy of the Japanese Foreign Ministry published today, April 8, entitled "Blue Book", which reintroduced the wording about the "illegal occupation" of the ...

Moscow and Tokyo have been negotiating since the middle of the last century with the aim of developing a peace agreement after World War II war. The main obstacle to this remains disagreements over ...

In the outer world, in those days ... At Yalta, over a year later, Stalin bargained for Port Arthur, Dairen and the Kuril Islands in return for a promise to enter the war against Japan.

It is unlikely you'll visit just one island while vacationing on the Galápagos Islands. Each of the ... Española is the only island in the world where these critically endangered birds breed.