Russia and Japan have not signed a peace treaty since World War II and have a territorial dispute over what Moscow calls the Southern Kuril Islands — a set of four islets — Etorofu ...

Tokyo maintains that the four islands -- Etorofu, Kunashiri, Shikotan and the Habomai islet group -- were illegally seized by the Soviet Union soon after Japan's surrender in World War II on Aug 15, ...

Earlier a senior official proposed disposing of radioactive materials on Russias Kuril Islands resulting in backlash Japanese ...

Russia's defense ministry said its troops repelled Ukrainian forces who on Thursday mounted a counteroffensive in Russia's western Kursk region. The Russian report came six months to the day that ...

The Russian military flights came after Russia and its quasi-ally, China, sent their nuclear-capable bombers for a joint ...

MOSCOW, Russia (AP) — The governor of Russia’s Pacific island region of Sakhalin has declared an emergency after a Chinese cargo ship ran aground off its southwest coast.

If Russians are gripped by a yearning for an imaginary past, they will not fight for a better future.

Japan's defense ministry reports responding to hundreds of Chinese and Russian aerial and maritime intrusions since April.

No, but I can say with confidence that what Russia needs now is a defeat. Germany’s and Japan’s became their salvation. So it could be with Russia. God knows it needs not more territory but a ...

Part of Russia's Pacific island region of Sakhalin is on high alert after a Chinese cargo ship ran aground off its southwest coast ...

No danger to crew of An Yang 2 and no fuel spillage recorded, Sakhalin’s governor said, but authorities had to be prepared for any situation.

During the war, Japan captured nearly ... Chinese, Korean, Russian and American prisoners who entered the Unit 731's camps during World War II were killed while being used as human guinea pigs ...