After Japan's WW2 surrender but before any deal was signed ... they lie between Hokkaido island and Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula. Tokyo has long demanded their return, so a peace deal has never ...

These include a Russia that is unwilling to cede territory to Japan, and a still-divided Korean peninsula but one in which North Korea is now a de facto nuclear state and therefore a more ...

BREAKING: Over 40 ‼️‼️Russian warplanes reportedly hit in massive Ukrainian drone strike. Ukraine’s Security Service has ...

Russia's ambassador to Tokyo blamed Japan on Friday for straining relations between the countries by imposing sanctions on Moscow over its war with Ukraine. Mikhail Galuzin also accused the United ...

Japan approved fresh sanctions over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, in a bid to show a united front with other Group of Seven nations. Tokyo applied an export ban to an additional 29 Russian ...

TOKYO — Japan's Cabinet on Friday approved additional sanctions against Russia over its war on Ukraine, including freezing the assets of dozens of individuals and groups and banning exports to ...

Japan's defeat of Russia in 1905 had ... laws and enable its forces to fight overseas for the first time since WW2. The prime minister has pushed for the changes, but polls show more than half ...

Kihara said the airspace violation could be related to a joint military exercise that Russia and China announced earlier this month. Japan scrambled an undisclosed number of F-15 and F-35 fighter ...

Japan will undertake a major military upgrade ... weapons systems from the U.S., as the apparent alignment of China and Russia has deepened Washington’s need for high-powered allies in the ...

Ewan Palmer is a Newsweek News Reporter based in London, U.K. His focus is reporting on US politics, and Florida news. He joined Newsweek in February 2018 after spending several years working at ...