{{The first visit of Japan’s prime minister to Russia in over a decade on Monday, leaders of the two countries expressed “firm determination to conclude a peace treaty” after 67 years of largely futile attempts to resolve the territorial row over the Kuril Islands.}}<\/p>\n
The four islands, with a total size five times the territory of Moscow, prevented Russia and Japan from concluding a peace treaty following World War II.<\/p>\n
Japan called for the disputed archipelago, which had been seized by the Soviet Union in 1945, to be returned, but Russia stayed firm in its sovereignty claims over the territory.<\/p>\n
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to “build new momentum” and “set a future course” for Russia-Japan relations.<\/p>\n
“I feel that we have established personal and trusting relations,” Abe said at a news conference after his talks with Putin, Interfax reported. “We came to the shared opinion that we should intensify contacts between our two countries’ leaders in the future.”<\/p>\n
Leaders of Russia and Japan had stalled discussions over a possible peace treaty and the Kuril Islands amid mushrooming irritants in recent years, including then-President Dmitry Medvedev’s 2010 visit to the islands and repeated allegations that Russia invaded Japanese airspace.<\/p>\n
Just last Saturday morning, Japan’s Defense Ministry said it scrambled fighter jets when two Russian Tu-142 planes flew close to its national border.<\/p>\n
Russia has denied violating Japan’s airspace.<\/p>\n
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