Senior government officials have recently made remarks that appear to support a suggestion that Japan should select the disputed Northern Territories as the final disposal site for high-level nuclear ...

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

In late September, a US HC-103J Super Hercules spotted four foreign vessels operating about 440 miles southwest of St.

Russia--Russia will offer tax breaks to stimulate business on a disputed Pacific island chain and make them available to foreign investors including from Japan, President Vladimir Putin said on ...

By analyzing sulfur and volcanic ash entrained in ice cores, researchers pinpointed a caldera in the remote Kuril Islands as ...

“an extremely remote volcano” on Simushir Island in the Kuril archipelago, a disputed territory between Russia and Japan. “For many of Earth’s volcanoes, particularly those in remote ...

It is situated on Simushir Island, a part of the Kuril Islands archipelago -- a disputed area by Russia and Japan. As per their analysis, the last eruption from Zavaritskii was in 800 BC.

which is part of the disputed Kuril Islands between Russia and Japan. During the Cold War, the Soviet Union used a flooded volcanic crater on Simushir as a secret nuclear submarine base ...