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Tag: Kurile Islands

Posted inJapan

With Abe gone, Japan-Russia in a new deep freeze

by Gregory Clark August 23, 2022August 29, 2022

For almost 60 years, Moscow’s large embassy near central Tokyo has been under siege. Tokyo demands the return of some islands it lost to Moscow at the end of the war. In support of that demand, large trucks carrying World War Two uniformed ultra-rightists blast out old war songs. Abusive slogans demanding the return of […]

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Vladimir Putin inspects military exercises in the Pacific Ocean near Sakhalin island on July 16, 2013. Photo: AFP/Ria-Novosti/Alexei Nikolsky
Posted inEuropean Union, Germany, Japan, North Korea, Northeast Asia, Russia, South Asia, South Korea, World

Russia, World War II and Northeast Asia

by Robert E. McCoy August 15, 2018February 18, 2020
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe shake hands before an opening ceremony of the cross-cultural year of Russia and Japan at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow on May 26, 2018. Photo: Reuters / Maxim Shemetov
Posted inJapan, North Korea, Northeast Asia, Russia, World

Putin calls for restraint on N Korea, wants Japan treaty

by Asia Times Staff and Reuters May 27, 2018February 18, 2020
Members of Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Forces' infantry unit stand to attention. Photo: Reuters/Kim Kyung-hoon
Posted inAustralia, China, Japan, Northeast Asia, Oceania, Russia, South Asia, World

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