Tucked away in the basement of this northern Japanese city’s local history museum is a small exhibit devoted to one of World War II’s most enduring territorial disputes. Known as the “Northern ...

MOSCOW, Feb 20 (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Friday that relations with Japan had been reduced to zero over Tokyo's "unfriendly" stance towards Russia, and there was no ongoing dialogue towards ...

The country’s postwar history was a remarkable story of national rebirth. Now the assumptions that underpinned the last 80 years of policy are being stressed to the limit. Japanese Prime Minister ...

When Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 it did more than redraw the map of Europe: it pulled at the frayed seam that has separated Tokyo and Moscow for decades. Since ...

Sept. 2 marks the 80th anniversary of Japan's formal World War II surrender. The capitulation was by design forceful and imposing, an absolutely made for Hollywood event -- as in Hollywood documentary ...

According to the Russian Foreign Ministry, the Southern Kuril Islands were transferred to Russia on legal grounds following the results of World War II, as enshrined in the UN Charter MOSCOW, August 4 ...

"The results of the Second World War in the Pacific, including the Japanese Surrender Act, were an integral part of the post-war Yalta-Potsdam world order," the Russian top diplomat recalled MOSCOW, ...

Japan’s new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi warned that the country is facing its “most severe and complex security environment” since World War II, pointing to China’s expanding military activities ...