The Japanese government has been evaluated as strengthening its territorial claims over Dokdo, the Kuril Islands (Northern Territories in Japanese), which are under Russia's effective control, and the ...

Moscow's harsh reaction to the rhetoric of Japan's new leadership has sent a clear signal to Tokyo amid tensions between ...

(Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences via AP) A tsunami sent powerful waves toward coastal areas of Russia’s Kuril Islands, Japan and Hawaii and Alaska after a powerful, ...

According to the Russian Foreign Ministry, the Southern Kuril Islands were transferred to Russia on legal grounds following the results of World War II, as enshrined in the UN Charter MOSCOW, August 4 ...

MOSCOW, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Russia said on Thursday that any dialogue with Japan regarding a peace treaty to formally end World War Two could only begin once Tokyo abandoned what Moscow described as a ...

Natalya Nikonorova also addressed recent Japanese claims, saying that their statements about the events of August 1945 distort historical facts MOSCOW, August 8. /TASS/. Russia’s sovereignty over the ...

HONOLULU (AP) — Fears of a devastating tsunami across the Pacific faded Wednesday after one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded struck off a sparsely populated Russian peninsula, but ...

For Japan, the Sino-Russian alignment in wartime narratives is more than a contest over memory – it generates real geopolitical effects. Russian President Vladimir Putin (left), Chinese President Xi ...