Four months later, with this massive military assistance from the U.S., the Soviet Union landed on the Kuril Islands, ...

Yes, a peace treaty was never signed, and the dispute over the Kuril Islands has persisted for more than 70 years. So that begs the question if Russia’s war against Ukraine could follow a ...

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 ...

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.

TASS/. The Japanese authorities’ stance on sovereignty over the southern Kuril Islands reveals that the Japanese political establishment suffers from historical amnesia and is adamantly ...

The Atoll company will build a mini-hotel with 15 rooms and a cafe on the island of Iturup as part of the special tax regime of the Kuril Islands (CORFU), which exempts businesses from taxes for 20 ...

The Japanese Foreign Ministry said in its 2024 annual report that despite strained relations with Russia, it remains committed to signing a peace treaty in hopes of reclaiming the southern Kuril ...

MOSCOW, January 22. /TASS/. Two emergency monitoring and assessment centers will be built on Russia’s Far Eastern Kuril Islands in 2019, Marina Dedyushko, a deputy minister for the development ...

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 ...

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 ...

The report also noted that 18 hours after a magnitude-7.0 earthquake hit off Etorofu island in the Kuril Islands in 1963, another quake of 8.5 magnitude struck. Although an earthquake of 8.0 ...