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Japan describes Southern Kurils as occupied areas for 1st time since 2003:
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], April 22 (ANI/Sputnik): The Japanese government has described the Southern Kuril islands, known in Japan as the Northern Territories, as the area illegally occupied by Russia in its Diplomatic Bluebook for the first time since 2003, media reported on Friday.
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Magnitude 5.3 earthquake registered near Southern Kuril Islands
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Moscow [Russia], April 1 (ANI/Sputnik): A 5.3 magnitude earthquake was registered on Friday near Russia's Southern Kuril Islands, the regional branch of the Geophysical Survey of the Russian Academy of Sciences (GS RAS) told Sputnik.
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Ownership of Kuril Islands key to Japan-Russia talks on Peace Treaty: PM F
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], October 13 (ANI/Sputnik): The issue of ownership of four disputed islands, known as the Southern Kuril Islands of Iturup, Kunashir, Shikotan, and Habomai, will be at the centre of the Tokyo-Moscow negotiations on a peace accord, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on We
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Russian lawmaker says borders not subject to revision after Kishida's rema
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], October 12 (ANI/Sputnik): The Russian territory is indivisible, and the borders are not to be revised, Vladimir Dzhabarov, the first deputy chairman of the Russian upper chamber's foreign affairs committee, told Sputnik on Tuesday, commenting on Japanese Prime Minister Fumio
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Japanese Prime Minister Kishida says Japan's sovereignty extends to southe
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], October 12 (ANI/Sputnik): Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, during a debate in parliament, said his country's sovereignty extends, among other things, to the southern Kuril Islands.
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Japan lodges protest with Russia over naval drills on disputed Kuril Islan
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], June 24 (ANI/Sputnik): Tokyo has lodged a protest with Moscow via diplomatic channels over Russia's military drills in the waters of the Sea of Japan off the Sakhalin Island and the Southern Kuril Islands that Tokyo considers part of its Northern Territories, Japanese Chief Ca
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Magnitude 5.2 earthquake hits Russia's Kuril Islands
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
Kuril Islands [Russia], Jan 28 (Sputnik/ANI): A magnitude 5.2 earthquake struck on Tuesday near the southern Kuril Islands, the Sakhalin branch of the Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences told Sputnik.
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