Russian officials claimed on Sunday that a U.S. Navy Virginia-class submarine was found in Russia’s territorial waters near the Kuril Islands a day earlier. The submarine was reportedly detected by ...

Russia has reportedly decided to prohibit foreign ships from exercising the right of innocent passage—granted under an international treaty—in waters surrounding a disputed group of islands in the ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Japans Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Saturday pledged to move forward on a peace treaty to solve a territorial dispute over the Kuril Islands. p pulse Follow The ...

Dec 27 (Reuters) - An earthquake of magnitude 6.6 struck the Kuril Islands on Friday, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) said. The quake was at a depth of 145 km (90.1 miles), GFZ said.

Japan has said that while its relations with Russia are difficult, it intends to conclude a peace treaty with its maritime neighbor over the Northern Territories dispute. The dispute over the ...

Russia says it has built four new military barracks in the Kuril islands, angering Tokyo on Tuesday with whom it has been locked in a decades-long row over the archipelago in the Sea of Japan. Neither ...

TOKYO, November 10. /TASS/. Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara reprimanded the Minister for Okinawa and "Northern Territories" Affairs (as Japan refers to the southern part of the Kuril ...

Earlier, during parliamentary debates, Ishiba reiterated the government's claims to the southern part of the Kurils, which Tokyo calls the "four northern islands" TOKYO, December 2. /TASS/. The ...

Japan takes a firm stance against Russia, addressing the Ukraine conflict and Kuril Islands dispute. Exploring Fumio Kishida's strategy and Japan's evolving military policy. Donald Trump to make ...

The Russian authorities declared a state of emergency on the Kuril islands after the tsunami. They earlier reported that several tsunami waves flooded the fishing port of Severokurilsk, the main city ...