Japan has 3 territorial problems with her neighbors: Senkaku Islands, Takeshima, and the Northern Territories. We examine their merits under international law.
If Russia continues to decline, it may no longer be able to hold onto its Far East regions. China could be waiting to swoop in when...
Russian troops, joined by counterparts from China and India, held a drill, firing weapons into the Sea of Japan, off Hokkaido.
Tokyo should make it impossible for Russian and third-country companies that would invest in the economic zone to do business with Japan.
The Putin administration has no intention of returning the Northern Territories. Japan makes it clear it will hold accountable any businesses which dare to invest in...
They say, you can’t choose your neighbors. That applies to all countries, including Japan. In recent times, the island nation of Japan has had to...
Megaquakes surpassing the strongest ones in Japan’s recorded history could be forthcoming, a string of findings released by Japan’s Cabinet Office on April 21...
How long does Russia intend to cling to the state-perpetrated crime of “illegally occupying the Northern Territories” off Japan’s northernmost major island of Hokkaido? This...
As feared earlier, Japan’s territorial negotiations with Russia have run into rough waters. In November 2018, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Russian President...
The Sankei Shimbun Now is the time for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to restructure Japan’s diplomatic stand toward Russia so that the...