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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 ...
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Japan maintains a claim to the three islands of Kunashir, Iturup, and Shikotan, and the Habomai rocks, together called the Northern Territories. In addition, the Japanese government claims that the Kuril Islands, other than the Northern Territories and South Karafuto, are undetermined areas under international law because the San Francisco ...
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The map of the Russian Federation with a white-blue-white flag is the title of the image. If you want to publish a map without the Kurils, publish it, but add "without disputed... 12:06, 4 January 2023: 1,039 × 604 (48 KB) Giorgi Balakhadze: This is not about Kremlin views, those 4 islands are Japanese sovereign territory: 20:18, 3 January 2023
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
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 ...