Japan has protested to Russia over the alleged temporary suspension of the right of passage of foreign vessels in the area of ...

Japan’s government sent Russia a formal letter of protest over the closure of sea navigation around the Kuril Islands, ...

The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs lodged a strongly-worded protest note with the Japanese Embassy in Moscow on Thur ...

The blunt remarks by Medvedev, a former president who is deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, over what Moscow calls the Kuril islands are likely to anger Japan which lays claim to four ...

In response to questions from journalists, Iwai stated that Japan had received a notification from Russia about planned live-fire drills near the Kunashir, Shikotan, and Habomai islands, set to occur ...

Tokyo had announced plans for conducting the missile drills in June on Hokkaido Island - the northernmost prefecture of Japan, near the disputed Kuril Islands. Equipped with Type-88 missiles, SSM-1 ...

The man lives on Kunashiri island, one of four disputed islands administered by Russia but also claimed by Japan which Japan ... authorities of the Southern Kuril District of the Russia’s ...

In Japan, officials had recorded an “orphan ... He remembered that following a big 1994 seafloor quake off Russia’s Kuril Islands, surfers in Hawaii headed for the beaches.

Japan said Thursday it has lodged a protest with Russia over its move to temporarily restrict the passage of foreign military and government ships in waters around the Russian-held, Japanese-claimed ...

This photo taken in November 2019 from a Mainichi airplane 'Kibou' shows Russian-held, Japanese-claimed islands off Hokkaido, known as the Northern Territories in Japan.(Mainichi) TOKYO (Kyodo ...