700°E / 44.100; 146.700 The Kuril Islands dispute, known as the Northern Territories dispute in Japan, is a territorial dispute between Japan and Russia...

to the ongoing Kuril Islands dispute. The disputed islands are known in Japan as the country's "Northern Territories". The name Kuril originates from...

Kuril Islands are an archipelago stretching from the Japanese island of Hokkaido to the Russian Kamchatka Peninsula. The Kurils and the nearby island...

The Invasion of the Kuril Islands (Russian: Курильская десантная операция, lit. 'Kuril Islands Landing Operation') was the World War II Soviet military...

the Kurils. It is claimed by Japan (see Kuril Islands dispute). Kunashir is separated by the Catherine Strait (Kunashiri Suido) from the island of Iturup...

been involved in the Kuril Islands dispute due to Russia's 1991 inheritance of control over the four southernmost Kuril Islands, which Japan has claimed...

peace negotiations with Japan that include talks on resolving the Kuril Islands dispute. Russian navigator Adam Laxman was sent by Catherine the Great to...

Shikotan Island, 1990. Shikotan, 1980. Lighthouse, 1980. Landscape, 1980. Pre-WW2 Shikotan Shrine. Whale bones were used for a Torii Kuril Islands dispute Soviet–Japanese...

number of disputed territories between Japan and Russia (the Kuril Islands dispute), South Korea and North Korea (the Liancourt Rocks dispute), the People's...

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