Former residents of Russian-held islands have attended a rally to demand the islands' early return to Japan, which calls them the Northern Territories.

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba vowed Friday to resolve a longstanding territorial dispute between Japan and Russia that has ...

Russian diplomat, however, sees no possibility of resuming negotiations with Tokyo on peace treaty - Anadolu Ajansı ...

The plan is to commit to paper possible transference of Shikotan and the Habomai islands to Japan, the agency reports TOKYO, January 20. /TASS/. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has got down to ...

Russia’s prosecutor general on April 21 announced that it had designated the league of residents of Chishima and Habomai islands as “an undesirable organization.” It was the first time any ...

Under the Soviet-Japanese Joint Declaration of 1956, the Soviets offered to transfer ownership and control of the smaller Shikotan and Habomai Islands to Japan once a peace treaty is signed.

TASS/. Shikotan Island, part of the Kuril archipelago, and a group of small islands of Habomai should be demilitarized in case of their handover to Tokyo, which needs to provide guarantees that US ...

The agreement states that the islands of Habomai and Shikotan are to be handed over to Japan upon the conclusion of a peace treaty between the two countries. Japan says there is no change to its ...

Kaigarajima island belongs to the Habomai group of islets off the coast of eastern Hokkaido. Soviet forces seized the Northern Territories at the end of World War II. Japan claims sovereignty over ...

These islands include Iturup, Kunashir, Shikotan, and the Habomai islets. The dispute arose after World War II when the ...