Russia and Japan have not signed a peace treaty since World War II and have a territorial dispute over what Moscow calls the Southern Kuril Islands — a set of four islets — Etorofu ...

Tokyo maintains that the four islands -- Etorofu, Kunashiri, Shikotan and the Habomai islet group -- were illegally seized by the Soviet Union soon after Japan's surrender in World War II on Aug 15, ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping plans to visit Moscow on May 9, 2025, for Victory Day events marking the 80th anniversary of the ...

Russia's defense ministry said its troops repelled Ukrainian forces who on Thursday mounted a counteroffensive in Russia's western Kursk region. The Russian report came six months to the day that ...

No danger to crew of An Yang 2 and no fuel spillage recorded, Sakhalin’s governor said, but authorities had to be prepared ...

The governor of Russia’s Pacific island region of Sakhalin has declared an emergency after a Chinese cargo ship ran aground off its southwest coast. There was no danger to the crew of the An Yang 2, ...

The Russian military flights came after Russia and its quasi-ally, China, sent their nuclear-capable bombers for a joint ...

If Russians are gripped by a yearning for an imaginary past, they will not fight for a better future.

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

Germany’s and Japan’s became their salvation. So it could be with Russia. God knows it needs ... Moscow will similarly spin it as a win. World War II was the last war of aggression fueled ...

The governor of Russia's Pacific island region of Sakhalin has declared an emergency after a Chinese cargo ship ran aground off its southwest coast.

During the war, Japan captured nearly ... Chinese, Korean, Russian and American prisoners who entered the Unit 731's camps during World War II were killed while being used as human guinea pigs ...