A Russian submarine passed through the waters between Japan's islands for the first time on ... The waters where the Russian vessels were seen are a disputed area, with China also claiming rights ...

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 ...

James Brown, a professor of international relations who specialises in Japan-Russia affairs at the Tokyo campus of Temple University, says Putin's plan to visit the disputed islands was "revenge ...

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 ...

one of four disputed islands, than Japan. The islands were seized by Soviet forces in the waning days of World War II. Japan and Russia have an agreement that requires both countries to provide as ...

The climate-altering eruption came from the Zavaritskii volcano on an uninhabited island in the Pacific that once hosted a ...

Scientists have identified the “mystery volcano” that erupted in 1831 and cooled Earth’s climate. They have linked it to an ...

A prominent US security analyst has called on president-elect Donald Trump to demonstrate the firm line he will take on China by resuming live-fire practice drills on disputed islands in the East ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan on Friday approved additional sanctions against Russia over its war on Ukraine, including freezing the assets of dozens of individuals and groups and banning exports to dozens ...

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 and ...