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Does Putin Have a Kuril Islands Plan?
As a I reported this week, Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Russia's President Vladimir Putin enjoyed what could be [...]
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World War II: Not Over For Japan and Russia
An odd historical fact: Japan and Russia at the end of the World War II never signed a formal peace [...]
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East Asia’s Islands Challenge
Last week, the Center for Naval Analysis published the fifth in a series of reports on the current status of [...]
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Did Russian Jets Violate Japanese Airspace?
Japan scrambled fighter jets after two Russian Su-27 fighter jets entered Japanese airspace over the territorial waters of Rishiri Island [...]
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China’s Restrained Nationalism
Many countries in East Asia are facing the same dilemma: how to manage a groundswell of nationalist sentiment. It’s a [...]
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Time for a Kurils Deal?
Last month, Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba restarted a round of “half-in” strategic dialogue with his Russian counterpart during the [...]
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Dokdo Row Flares Again
Japan’s historical dispute with South Korea over the Dokdo islets (known as Takeshima to the Japanese) has been reignited, with [...]
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Japan, Russia Trade Kurils Barbs
Japan’s long running territorial dispute with Russia over the Kuril Islands (which the Japanese refer to as the Northern Territories) [...]
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Tricky Kuril Ties
Following is a guest post from new Flashpoints contributor J. Berkshire Miller Iturup, Kunashir, Shikotan, Khabomai—to most observers these are [...]
