it was stated that Moscow had informed Tokyo that it cannot coordinate any timeframes for its consultations on fishing due to Japan’s anti-Russian restrictions Japan eager to resume humanitarian ...

MOSCOW--Russian missile troops held drills on a disputed island which both Japan and Russia claim as their own, the Interfax news agency cited Russia’s Defense Ministry as saying on Thursday.

The negotiations for a peace treaty to officially terminate a state of war date back to 1956, when Russia and Japan signed the Japan-Soviet Joint Declaration. The territorial dispute over islands ...

Japan has changed its approach to Russia compared to past editions ... that Putin has no intention of ever handing any of the disputed islands back to Japanese control. Tokyo appears to be giving ...

Now, a study published last week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences pins the blame on Zavaritskii caldera, ...

Russia said on Sunday it will not hold annual talks with Japan on renewing a pact that allows Japanese fishermen to operate near disputed islands, saying Japan has taken anti-Russian measures.

Senior government officials have recently made remarks that appear to support a suggestion that Japan should select the ...

Japan's defense ministry reports responding to hundreds of Chinese and Russian aerial and maritime intrusions since April.

Japan is facing backlash over its territorial disputes with Russia and China, according to Chinese political analysts. The controversy surrounding the Kuril Islands has resurfaced recently ...

Russia and Japan have never signed an official peace treaty to end the second world war because of a dispute over the Kuril Islands. The Soviet army seized the Kurils at the end of the war in 1945 ...

Switzerland has shipped a first instalment of Leopard 2 tanks to Germany, which replaces tanks its northern neighbour is sending to Ukraine, as pledges of billions in aid from Europe and the US ...

China made the latest move in its territorial confrontation with Japan by sending surveillance vessels to the disputed islands, known as Senkaku by Japan and Diaoyu by China.