The Kuril Islands comprise an archipelago of four islands between Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula and the northernmost part of Japan, Hokkaido Island. Before World War II, the islands were a part of ...

GORKI, July 23. /TASS/. The Russian authorities are planning to restore both the civilian and defense infrastructure of the Kuril Islands off Russia’s Pacific coast as part of the targeted ...

Medvedev, who styles himself as one of the Kremlin’s most hardline anti-Western hawks, said Japan would also have to accept that Russia would develop the Kuril islands and station new weapons there.

Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi said that bilateral relations were "in a difficult situation" and that nothing concrete could be said about consultations on the peace treaty New ...

MOSCOW--Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that he will definitely one day visit the Southern Kuril Islands which are at the centre of a dispute with Japan that has lasted since World War Two.

Japan's prime minister may finally have to give up hope of making progress on a long-standing territorial dispute.