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DISPUTE

Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 6, 2018
Japan and Russia seek progress on territorial dispute in Tokyo talks
Senior Japanese and Russian diplomats on Tuesday agreed to further promote negotiations over planned joint economic activities on four disputed islands off Hokkaido, Japanese officials said.
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 6, 2017
Tokyo and Beijing agree to implement hotline aimed at averting clashes over Senkakus
Japan and China largely agree on how to implement a mechanism to prevent clashes in the East China Sea amid a long-running territorial dispute over the uninhabited Senkaku Islands.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Nov 9, 2017
Manila drops South China Sea hut construction on sandbar after Beijing gripes
Philippine Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana acknowledged Wednesday that the military canceled construction of structures in a disputed area of the South China Sea after China complained about it.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 10, 2017
Japan fathoms meaning of China's Senkaku forays five years after nationalization
On the fifth anniversary Monday of Japan's nationalization of three of five Senkaku Islands in Okinawa Prefecture, Tokyo remains wary of Chinese intrusions into the surrounding waters that have seemingly become routine.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 23, 2017
Russia designates isles claimed by Japan as special economic zone
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on Wednesday signed a document designating disputed islands controlled by Moscow but claimed by Japan as a special economic zone, Interfax news agency reported.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 19, 2017
First visitation flight to disputed isles off Hokkaido canceled over poor weather
Two days of bad weather forced the cancellation Monday of what was to have been the first chartered flight by former residents to visit Kunashiri and Etorofu, two of the four Russia-held islands off northeastern Hokkaido claimed by Japan.
JAPAN
May 19, 2017
Ex-residents set to visit two of disputed isles off Hokkaido in June
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. That would mark the first time they have been allowed return to the isles by plane.
JAPAN
Feb 14, 2017
South Korea protests Japan's isle claim in school curriculum guidelines
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."
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 7, 2017
Abe renews pledge to solve territorial row with Russia
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.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Jan 12, 2017
Abe pledges ¥1 trillion aid package to Philippines for infrastructure development
Abe and Duterte also agreed to enhance maritime and security cooperation in their talks at the Malacanang Palace in Manila.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 20, 2016
Defending approach in territorial dispute, Abe eyes Russia visit early next year
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.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics / ANALYSIS
Dec 16, 2016
Putin exits onsen drama holding all the cards
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.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 19, 2016
Japan, Russia to ease visa rules, push tourism under cooperation plan
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.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 13, 2016
SDF, Coast Guard, police hold drill to keep armed fishermen off remote islands
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.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 1, 2016
Moscow 'cannot' cede islands to Japan, Russian upper house speaker says
Russia "cannot" cede the sovereignty of the Japanese-claimed islands off Hokkaido, the speaker of the Russian parliament's upper house said.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 30, 2016
Japan mulls deal to retrieve Russian-held isles by banning U.S. military from using them
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.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 28, 2016
Key Abe adviser urges 'realistic approach' to islet talks with Russia
Influential former Diet member Muneo Suzuki, an unofficial adviser to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Russian affairs, argued Wednesday that Japan should take "a realistic approach" on the reversion of four disputed islands off Hokkaido, first asking for some of the islets rather than taking an all-at-once approach.
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 1, 2016
Abe-Putin chat may clarify 'new approach' to isle row
In May the two leaders agreed to take a new tack to solving the territorial dispute over four islands off Hokkaido.
JAPAN
Aug 24, 2016
Japanese man gets OK to leave Russian-held isle
A Japanese man who was questioned by authorities on Russian-held Kunashiri Island has been cleared to return home, Japan's Foreign Ministry said Wednesday.
JAPAN / Politics
Jun 17, 2016
Japan, Russia to resume talks on disputed isles off Hokkaido next week
Tokyo and the Kremlin will on Wednesday resume negotiations on the decades-old territorial row over Russian-held islands off Hokkaido, Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida announced Friday.
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Casa del Cibo: A thriving jewel born from Tohoku’s harsh past
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Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
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