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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

pronunciation: [ɕi̥botsɯ̥toː]) is an unpopulated and uninhabited island in the Kuril Island chain, Sakhalin Oblast, Russia. Although it is administered by...

(but for the Russian guards stationed there) in the southernmost Kuril Islands. The islands have been under Soviet / Russian administration since the 1945...

southern Kurils and forcibly removed its Japanese residents. Japan continues to claim the islands and considers the northern edge of the island to be its...

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

ongoing, and long-standing, territorial dispute between Russia and Japan over the jurisdiction of the Kuril Islands. In 1811, Vasily Golovnin, a Russian...

Oblast of the Russian Federation. Kuril Islands dispute Evacuation of Karafuto and Kuriles "Kuril islands dispute between Russia and Japan". BBC News...

Francisco Treaty except for the southern Kuril islands (see Kuril Islands dispute). After 1869, the northern Japanese island was known as Hokkaido; and regional...

Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan. Japan claims the southern parts of the disputed Kuril Islands (known as the Northern Territories in Japan) as part of this subprefecture...

Foreign Affairs of Japan to spread awareness of its position on the Kuril Islands dispute. Northern Territories Day is not one of the public holidays in Japan...

required by the evolution of the law." Kuril Islands dispute Liancourt Rocks dispute Senkaku Islands dispute Satellite view of 5.55804/126.58470 League...

strait. However, Japan claims the sovereignty over these islands. (See Kuril Islands dispute.) Consequently, the cape houses a lot of monuments dealing...

Shrine Nishikubo Shrine Sakhalin Ainu language Sakhalin Koreans Kuril Islands dispute Ainu in Russia Japanese: 樺太庁 (kyūjitai: 樺太廳), Karafuto-chō later...

the Soviet Union that was declared during World War II, but the Kuril Islands dispute remains an unresolved consequence of the war. The Polish government-in-exile...

Japan claims lies on the disputed island of Iturup. Japan's claim to the three southernmost islands of the Kuril Islands is disputed by Russia, which de facto...

1943 to present) Kurilian dispute or Kuril Islands dispute – conflict between Russia and Japan over the southern Kuril Islands Kurilian Bobtail, a breed...

to the south. There is a longstanding dispute with Japan over the southern part of the Kuril islands. The dispute dates back to the Soviet Union and the...

had to leave in spring 1805. The Russians attacked Sakhalin and the Kuril islands during the following three years, prompting the bakufu to build up defences...

the Kuril Islands, provoking the Kuril Islands dispute, which is ongoing, as Russia continues to occupy the islands. Hundreds of thousands of Japanese...

Kamchatka Peninsula on the east, the Kuril Islands on the southeast, Japan's island of Hokkaido on the south, the island of Sakhalin along the west, and a...

Derevyanko, is part of Anuchina's offshore islets. Kuril Islands dispute "Kuril islands dispute between Russia and Japan". BBC News. 29 April 2013. Retrieved...

There have been a number of significant disputes between various Koreanic and Japonic states. The two regions have a long history of relations as immediate...

"four-island return" became the cornerstone for the continuation of the Kuril Islands dispute in the Soviet and post-Soviet years. On 14 November 2004, Russian...