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

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 ...

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 ...

In the declaration, the Soviet Union expressed its readiness to transfer to Japan the Habomai Islands and the island of Shikotan from the Lesser Kuril Chain, on the condition that the actual ...

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 ...

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

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 ...