RUSSIA & JAPAN
QUARREL OVER
THE KURIL ISLANDS/
NORTHERN TERRITORIES
SAKHALIN MUSEUM
YUZHNOSAKHALINSK, RUSSIA
(FORMER GOVERNOR'S MANSION
UNDER THE JAPANESE)
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has ordered a stepped-up military presence on the Kuril Islands, once ruled by the Japanese and claimed by Tokyo as the "Northern Territories." These islands and islets north of Japan's Hokkaido island and east of Russia's Sakhalin island have kept Russia and Tokyo from ever signing a treaty ending World War II between them. [to be continued]
For more on the history and the politics, see Chapter II of "RUSSIA REDUX."
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