Japan will officially call the Kuril Islands "

31 March 2022, 17:29 | Policy
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Japan will now refer to the southern Kuril Islands as " This is reported by the publication " This wording was officially included in the government reference book "

Recall that the southern Kuril Islands are the territory of Japan, which was occupied by the Soviet Union in 1945.. The Japanese were forcibly evicted from there.. As a result of the Soviet-Japanese war, Russia - as the successor of the USSR - and Japan never signed a peace treaty.



Today, Japan claims four southern islands of the Kuril chain: Iturup, Shikotan, Kunashir and Habomai. Since 2011, these territories have been called the " Now the name has been changed due to Russia's aggression against Ukraine, writes "

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Earlier, the Russian Federation announced that it was stopping work on a peace treaty with Japan and abolishing visa-free travel for the Japanese in the South Kuril Islands it occupied due to " Japan opposed this decision.




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