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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 ...
Northern Territories Day is not one of the public holidays in Japan, so government offices and businesses are open (National Foundation Day follows soon thereafter on February 11). Its date is set to February 7 each year because on February 7, 1855, Japan and Russia had signed the Treaty of Shimoda. [2]
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The subsequent Treaty of San Francisco forced Japan to give up their claims to the Kuril Islands, but since the Soviet Union refused to sign the treaty, the US still considers the Kurils as Japanese territory under Russian control. [4] In addition, Japan claims that the Northern Territories are not a part of the Kuril Islands and had officially ...
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).
Northern Territories (北方領土, Hoppō Ryōdo), a term used by Japan in territorial disputes to refer to the parts of Kuril Islands claimed by Japan and occupied by Russia. Historical name of part of Ghana, a former British Empire protectorate, itself divided into the Northern, Upper East and Upper West Regions of modern Ghana
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