enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Kuril Islands dispute - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuril_Islands_dispute

    The whole island of Iturup belongs to Japan and the whole island Urup and the other Kuril Islands to the north constitute possessions of Russia". The islands of Kunashiri, Shikotan and the Habomai Islands, all lying to the south of Iturup, are not explicitly mentioned in the treaty and were understood at the time to be a non-disputed part of Japan.

  3. Sakhalin - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakhalin

    An island of the West Pacific, Sakhalin divides the Sea of Okhotsk to its east from the Sea of Japan to its southwest. It is administered as part of Sakhalin Oblast and is the largest island of Russia, [3] with an area of 72,492 square kilometres (27,989 sq mi).

  4. Invasion of the Kuril Islands - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_the_Kuril_Islands

    On 23 August, the 20,000-strong Japanese garrisons on the islands were ordered to surrender as part of the general surrender of Japan. However, some of the garrison forces ignored this order and continued to resist Soviet occupation. [7] From 22 to 28 August, troops of the Kamchatka Defense Area occupied the Kuril Islands from Urup north.

  5. Russia holds military drills on disputed island near Japan ...

    www.aol.com/news/russia-holds-military-drills...

    Soviet troops took control of the four islands off Japan's Hokkaido - known in Russia as the Kurils and in Japan as the Northern Territories - at the end of World War Two and they have remained in ...

  6. Japan–Russia border - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JapanRussia_border

    The former land border on Sakhalin (Russia in yellow, Japan in red) The existing de facto (and, from the Russian point of view, also de jure) Russian-Japanese border follows several sea straits: the La Pérouse Strait, the Nemuro Strait, and Izmeny Strait (Notsuke Strait) and the Sovietsky Strait, which separate Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands from the Japanese island of Hokkaido.

  7. Territorial disputes of Japan - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_disputes_of_Japan

    The rest of the Kuril Islands came under Japanese rule after the 1875 Treaty of Saint Petersburg and the end of the Russo-Japanese War in 1905. They would remain under the Japanese until the end of World War II, when the Soviet Union annexed the islands as the result of a military operation which took place during and after the Surrender of ...

  8. Kuril Islands - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuril_Islands

    The main Russian force stationed on the islands is the 18th Machine Gun Artillery Division, which has its headquarters in Goryachiye Klyuchi on the Iturup Island. There are also Border Guard Service troops stationed on the islands. In February 2011, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev called for substantial reinforcements of the Kuril Islands ...

  9. Russian-occupied territories - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian-occupied_territories

    The Kuril Islands dispute is a territorial dispute between Japan and the Russian Federation over the ownership of the four southernmost Kuril Islands. The four disputed islands, like other islands in the Kuril chain that are not in dispute, were annexed by the Soviet Union following the Kuril Islands landing operation at the end of World War II ...