Former residents of the four Japan-claimed islands that were seized by Russia at the end of World War II may soon fly to two of them on June 18, as plans are now being finalized, according to multiple reports quoting government sources on Friday. ...
Seoul has formally protested Japan’s claims over a pair of South Korean-controlled islets, after the education ministry unveiled curriculum guidelines that for the first time urge elementary and junior high schools to teach students the islets are “integral parts of Japanese territory.” The protest ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday renewed his pledge to settle a dispute with Russia over four islands off Hokkaido despite failing two months earlier to produce any visible progress during a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin. At an annual event used as ...
Abe and Duterte also agreed to enhance maritime and security cooperation in their talks at the Malacanang Palace in Manila.
The Japan Coast Guard will devote 27 percent of its fiscal 2017 budget to ramping up patrols near the disputed Senkaku Islands, the draft approved by the Cabinet said Thursday. The Japan Coast Guard has a ¥210.6 billion budget for fiscal 2017, and ¥57.8 ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says he plans to visit Russia to continue negotiations on the territorial dispute over the four Japan-claimed islands off Hokkaido.
The summit talks between Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Russian President Vladimir Putin did not end in hikiwake, or a draw, as Putin once phrased it. Abe scored no tangible points in a diplomatic judo match over the sovereignty of the four disputed islands ...
Japan and Russia have agreed to promote tourism and ease visa requirements for each other’s citizens under an economic cooperation plan proposed by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in May, government officials said Friday. Some other aspects of the eight-point action plan — such as ...
The Self-Defense Forces, Coast Guard and police have conducted their first joint drill to cope with illegal entry of armed fishermen on a remote island, a government source said. The exercise, which wasn’t announced to the media, was held Friday on an island in ...
Russia “cannot” cede the sovereignty of the Japanese-claimed islands off Hokkaido, the speaker of the Russian parliament’s upper house said. Valentina Matviyenko, speaker of the Federation Council, told a news conference in Tokyo on Tuesday that Japan is welcome to participate in joint economic ...
Tokyo might promise Moscow that returning the disputed islands off Hokkaido to Japan will not mean that U.S. military forces will be stationed there in line with Japan-U.S. security arrangements, diplomatic sources have said. Tokyo believes such a promise will facilitate negotiations on the ...
Four Chinese vessels sailed into territorial waters around the disputed Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea during the weekend, as the government attempts to engage with Beijing to press North Korea over its latest nuclear test. The four coast guard vessels sailed into ...
