The Japanese government has been evaluated as strengthening its territorial claims over Dokdo, the Kuril Islands (Northern Territories in Japanese), which are under Russia's effective control, and the ...

Read full article: Man who killed 3 women, shot himself in Hilliard home dies days after being on life support A tsunami has hit coastal areas of Russia’s Kuril Islands and Japan’s large northern ...

A tsunami has hit coastal areas of Russia’s Kuril Islands and Japan’s large northern island of Hokkaido after a powerful, 8.8-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Russia early Wednesday. Tsunami ...

A tsunami has hit coastal areas of Russia’s Kuril Islands and Japan’s large northern island of Hokkaido after a powerful, 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Russia early Wednesday Credit ...

Russia says it has built four new military barracks in the Kuril islands, angering Tokyo on Tuesday with whom it has been locked in a decades-long row over the archipelago in the Sea of Japan. Neither ...

Hundreds of Russians protested against a feared giveaway of strategic islands to Japan on Sunday, two days before a key summit between the countries' leaders in Moscow. The protestors was organised by ...

Moscow's harsh reaction to the rhetoric of Japan's new leadership has sent a clear signal to Tokyo amid tensions between ...

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, and Soviet leader Josef Stalin at the Yalta Conference, Feb. 9, 1945. Credit: UK National Archives Eight decadess ago, on ...