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In 2002, Japan's government leased three of the disputes islands from their private owner, stating that doing so would "help prevent the illegal landing of third parties". [74]: 262 Japanese patrol ships prevented Chinese activists from landing in the islands in June 2003. [74]: 262 In August, Japanese activists landed on the islands.
In 2015, trade between Japan and Spain totaled €5.5 billion (¥729 billion). Japan's main exports to Spain include chemical products, machinery and transportation equipment. Spain's exports to Japan include transportation equipment and machinery. [22] Japanese cultural exports to Spain include anime, film, video games, and food.
The Kuril Islands are an archipelago stretching from the Japanese island of Hokkaido to the Russian Kamchatka Peninsula. The Kurils and the nearby island of Sakhalin have changed hands several times since the 1855 Treaty of Shimoda first defined the boundary between the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan; under this treaty, the border in ...
See Japan–Spain relations. Japan has an embassy in Madrid and consulates in Barcelona and Las Palmas. Spain has an embassy in Tokyo. Since 1997, every year a Japan–Spain Symposium for the cultural exchange between the two countries is held. Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs about relations with Spain Archived 3 March 2016 at the Wayback ...
The Japanese government claims that there is no territorial dispute over the Senkaku Islands. [11]: 264–265 On September 14, 2010, then-Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Seiji Maehara repeatedly asserted this standpoint. [33]
Location errors in an 1868–1870 survey to demarcate the California–Oregon border created a dispute between Oregon and California, which upon statehood had established the 42nd parallel north as its de jure border, based on the 1819 Adams–Onís Treaty between the U.S. and Spain. The dispute continues to this day, as there are about 31,000 ...
A number of territories occupied by the United States after 1945 were returned to Japan, but there are still a number of disputed territories between Japan and Russia (the Kuril Islands dispute), South Korea and North Korea (the Liancourt Rocks dispute), the People's Republic of China and Taiwan (the Senkaku Islands dispute).
The Kuril Islands dispute, known as the Northern Territories dispute in Japan, is a territorial dispute between Japan and Russia over the ownership of the four southernmost Kuril Islands. The Kuril Islands are a chain of islands that stretch between the Japanese island of Hokkaido at their southern end and the Russian Kamchatka Peninsula at ...