President Vladimir Putin and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will again discuss the four controversial Kuril Islands, which Tokyo is claiming. The meeting will take place tomorrow in Singapore, and according to The Japan Times, the main topic of the conversation will be precisely the territorial claims of Japan.. Are there any specific proposals from the Russian or Japanese side, not reported. Earlier, Vladimir Putin stated that he spoke with Shinzo Abe in an informal setting, but failed to reach any decision on this issue, and conversations still come to a standstill.

On the eve of the Japanese media wrote that Shinzo Abe wants to offer the Russian president to discuss a peace treaty based on the Soviet-Japanese declaration of 1956. According to this document, the transfer of the islands of Habomai and Shikotan to Japan is allowed after the signing of a peace treaty. In addition, the USSR insisted on the neutral status of Japan during the Cold War..

But the contract was never concluded. Washington threatened Tokyo that it would not return the Ryuku archipelago with the island of Okinawa if the Japanese refuse to claim the other two islands - Kunashir and Iturup.