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    Japan - Russia Kuril Islands dispute:

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    Post  Firebird Fri Jan 20, 2017 9:48 am

    Here's something I didn't know. THe BBC in England did a programme on it.
    Japan's big North Island, Hokkaido only recently even became Japanese. In around the 1860s it was inhabited by a completely different ethnic group, not part of Japan. They were mostly called the Ainu, and spoke a different language, had different culture even looked different to the Japanese. Anyway, the Japanese invade the Ainu's island and began to ban the language and culture. Just 5% of the Hokkaido today (it was a new Japanese name) are the original indigeneous inhabitants. With a few more, of mixed descent.

    So not only are the Kurils NOT Japanese, the whole of Hokkaido isn't really Japanese either. Infact given that Russia's ethnic groups are generally happy, you could argue that the Ainu would have been better off under Russia. Infact, Japan invaded modern day Hokaido partly because they thought it would join Russia. It also invaded Hokaido because Japan has a history of bloody imperialism.

    So it all kind of fucks up Japan's claim to the Kurils...!
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    Post  George1 Sun Nov 18, 2018 7:07 pm

    Return to 1956 declaration implies no transfer of Russian territories to Japan - Peskov

    According to the Kremlin spokesman the sides will reach a compromise that will not run counter to their interests

    MOSCOW, November 18. /TASS/. The return to the 1956 Joint Declaration in the Russia-Japan peace treaty talks in no way implies an automatic transfer of Russian territories to the Japanese side, Russian president’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov said on Sunday.

    "Over these days we have heard a great variety of different speculations, political guesses about some sort of a separate deal on the transfer of the islands and so on. This is not true and cannot be true," he told the Moscow. Kremlin. Putin program of the Rossiya-1 television channel, commenting on the Russian-Japanese agreement to continue the peace treaty talks on the basis of the 1956 declaration.

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    "Can we say that it means automatic transference of any territories? Absolutely no. This is what President [of Russia Vladimir] Putin was saying when he answered journalists’ question," Peskov said.

    According to the Kremlin spokesman, the sides will reach a compromise that will not run counter to their interests. "Naturally, a compromise will be needed. We can say it already now that this compromise will not be in conflict with the national interests of either of the sides," he said. "Obviously, having such a vast experience, Russia cannot ignore Japan’s allied relations with other countries, first of all, with the United States. It is taken into account during the talks and this matter will need a solution."

    "Despite the complexity of the topic of the peace treaty with Japan, this problem can be settled. Such difficult problems are solvable all the same, and the experience of territorial talks with China is a good example of that," Peskov stressed.

    After Putin’s meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Singapore, Peskov told journalists that the two leaders had agreed to intensify the peace treaty talks on the basis on the 1956 declaration.

    Since the mid-20th century, Russia and Japan have been negotiating a peace treaty after World War II. The main stumbling block to this is the issue of the ownership of the southern Kuril Islands. After the end of World War II, all Kuril Islands were incorporated into the Soviet Union. However, Japan challenged the ownership of Iturup, Kunashir, Shikotan islands and a number of uninhibited islands of the Lesser Kuril Ridge called the Habomai Islands in Japan.

    In 1956, the Soviet Union and Japan signed a joint declaration on ceasing the state of war. The two countries resumed diplomatic and other relations, however no peace treaty has been signed until now. The Soviet Union committed to paper in the declaration its readiness to hand over Shikotan, Habomai and a number of uninhibited small islands to Japan as a gesture of good will after the peace treaty is ultimately signed.

    However following Japan’s signing a security treaty with the United States in 1060, the former Soviet Union revoked its liabilities concerning the transference of islands. The Soviet government said back then that the islands would be handed over to Japan only when all foreign forces were withdrawn from its territory.


    More:
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    Post  zorobabel Tue Nov 20, 2018 6:16 pm

    I don't personally have a problem with a return to the 1855 border if it is part of a comprehensive peace and trade accord, including Japan's recognition of all other Russian territorial claims (including Crimea), favorable trade conditions for Russia (including potential Sakhalinsk-Hokkaido pipeline), massive Japanese payments for the relocation of those islands' populations, etc.
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    Post  magnumcromagnon Wed Nov 21, 2018 1:31 am

    zorobabel wrote:I don't personally have a problem with a return to the 1855 border if it is part of a comprehensive peace and trade accord, including Japan's recognition of all other Russian territorial claims (including Crimea), favorable trade conditions for Russia (including potential Sakhalinsk-Hokkaido pipeline), massive Japanese payments for the relocation of those islands' populations, etc.

    Trust me, never concede to screeching hyper-victims. Shinzo Abe doesn't even recognize that the Imperial Japanese committed any atrocities during WW2 (that includes the Nanking Massacre), he believes the Japanese were the victims not the perpetrators. What's even crazier is that his historical revisionism of Imperial Japanese victimhood  is being used (by the neocons) to antagonize war with China.

    Believe me you can't rationalize with the mentally ill, nevermind offering them concessions.
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    Post  Tsavo Lion Sun Jun 02, 2019 6:19 pm

    In the USSR, they foresaw the conflict around Kuriles 60 years ago
    https://lenta.ru/news/2019/06/02/japan/

    Update: https://regnum.ru/news/polit/2643363.html


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    Post  ultimatewarrior Thu Apr 30, 2020 10:54 pm

    Kurils islands has tens of thousands of Russian citizens. When Russia settled border dispute with China in 2004 Russia never gave any inhabited land to China. Giving Kuril islands to Japan will mean end of Putin. Not only that, once Japan gets Kuril islands, Japan will renounce San Francisco treaty and lay claim to Sakhalin island which used to be part of Japan which Japan took in Russia Japan war in 1904 on the basis Ainu once lived there and Japan considers all lands once inhabited by Ainu are Japanese land.
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    Post  GarryB Fri May 01, 2020 9:29 am

    As the status of the Crimea shows... you can think what you like... it does not matter... it changes nothing on the ground.
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    Post  ultimatewarrior Fri May 01, 2020 3:50 pm

    GarryB wrote:As the status of the Crimea shows... you can think what you like... it does not matter... it changes nothing on the ground.

    That's right. Kurils is nothing to Japan. Give them an inch, and they'll take a mile. If Japan gets Kurils next they ask for Sakhalin and then Kamchatka. Hell, Japan considers all lands inhabited by Asians as Japanese land.
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    Post  Tsavo Lion Fri May 01, 2020 6:43 pm

    If Japan gets Kurils next they ask for Sakhalin and then Kamchatka.
    even if not, they would allow Americans on bases there. IMO, Japanese politicians know they won't get them but keep the issue for domestic consumption. It must be a tough pill to swallow having an Emperor but not an empire anymore.

    Hell, Japan considers all lands inhabited by Asians as Japanese land.
    not true. Asians live in Europe, Australia, Oceania, Africa & the Americas, incl. the largest Japanese diaspora in Brazil- it would be stupid to claim them all as belonging to Japan.
    Don't worry, the Japanese population is aging & they will have to allow more immigration to stay in business. In a few decades, they'll become Cinicized, if not in ethnicity, in culture & political allignment.
    A case in point: after being allied with the US, the Philippines r now getting in bed with China.
    Taiwan would be given an ultimatum: join the PRC or get destroyed & raped like Nanking & Korea were.


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    Post  ultimatewarrior Fri May 01, 2020 6:47 pm

    Tsavo Lion wrote:
    If Japan gets Kurils next they ask for Sakhalin and then Kamchatka.
    even if not, they would allow Americans on bases there. IMO, Japanese politicians know they won't get them but keep the issue for domestic consumption. It must be a tough pill to have an Emperor but an empire anymore.
    Hell, Japan considers all lands inhabited by Asians as Japanese land.
    not true. Asians live in Europe, Australia, Oceania, Africa & the Americas, incl. the largest Japanese diaspora in Brazil- it would be stupid to claim them all as belonging to Japan.
    Don't worry, the Japanese population is aging & they will have to allow more immigration to stay in business. In a few decades, they'll become Cinicized, if not in ethnicity, in culture & politics.
    A case in point: after being allied with the US, the Philippines r now getting in bed with China. Taiwan would be given an ultimatum: join the PRC or get destroyed & raped like Nanking was.

    Japan considers the entire world as Japanese land. Every country does this. If there is no one left in the world except the people of a country, you can bet your ass the government will allow its citizens to settle the entire world.
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    Post  Tsavo Lion Fri May 01, 2020 7:08 pm

    That's a hypothetical scenario that has nothing to do with any possible reality.
    If some1 in Japan rally thinks that, they should be in a mental assylum. There's not enough Japanese to claim & settle the whole Earth, even if they wanted to.
    Japan being a volcanic island chain would get uninhabitable before the rest of the world, even w/o any nuclear strikes/accidents.
    Their time as "a special nation protected by gods" is over. They been adopting to survive, Westernizing, conquering & eventually losing wars/lands since the 2 Imjin Wars of 1592–1598: https://www.ancient.eu/article/1398/the-japanese-invasion-of-korea-1592-8-ce/
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_invasions_of_Korea_(1592%E2%80%931598)

    A good film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POOxe1jvKoE


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    Post  ultimatewarrior Sun May 03, 2020 1:51 am

    Japanese don't care about Kurils. Japanese want Sakhalin and Kamchatka, which were partially inhabited by Ainu whom Japanese consider as Japanese (which they are not). Getting Kurils is only a step to ask Russia for Sakhalin and Kamchatka.
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    Post  Tsavo Lion Sun May 03, 2020 5:06 am

    Is it ur best guess or do u have references to back it up? Sure, they could use those lands but I never heard that their long term goals r to get them after the S. Kurils.
    If it's no secret to u, the Russians would know it too. They'll have a constitutional amendment against giving out any territory.
    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-putin-territory/putin-wants-constitutional-ban-on-russia-handing-land-to-foreign-powers-idUSKBN20Q1DE

    Japan can forget about getting anything she claims.
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    Post  magnumcromagnon Sun Jul 05, 2020 6:57 pm

    The Kuril Islands will remain with Russia, the discussion with Japan will be closed after the entry into force of amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation - Klintsevich

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    Post  ultimatewarrior Fri Jul 10, 2020 6:24 pm

    magnumcromagnon wrote:The Kuril Islands will remain with Russia, the discussion with Japan will be closed after the entry into force of amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation - Klintsevich

    Thank god. Now we can stop listing to that stupid Japanese rant year after year. Abe won't be attending the summit in Vladivostok this year like he did every year. There's no reason for him to go.
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    Post  Tsavo Lion Thu Sep 24, 2020 11:18 pm

    Will the Americans help take the Kuril Islands for the Japanese?
    https://regnum.ru/news/polit/3071900.html
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    Post  Isos Thu Sep 24, 2020 11:42 pm

    Funny thing is that Kurils have no interests. It's the waters around that are interesting.

    Japan/US invading it would be funny because then Russia could test a small nuk on them. No reaction from anyone because they would use it against an invading force on their territory and US wouldn't answer by a nuk war.
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    Post  Tsavo Lion Fri Sep 25, 2020 12:24 am

    There is a big amount of rhenium on Iturup.
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    Post  Rodion_Romanovic Fri Sep 25, 2020 11:11 am

    Isos wrote:Funny thing is that Kurils have no interests. It's the waters around that are interesting.

    Japan/US invading it would be funny because then Russia could test a small nuk on them. No reaction from anyone because they would use it against an invading force on their territory and US wouldn't answer by a nuk war.

    Well, if Japan attacks the kurils they may end up losing even more territory... hokkaido is probably way too big, so maybe something else... Okinawa wouldn't be bad, especially if American forces participate to the raids... but it is a bit far away from Russia ... maybe with Chinese support...

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    It would be funny if after an eventual attack on the kuril island, Okinawa would end up being a mutual Russian-chinese prefecture Twisted Evil
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    Post  Hole Fri Sep 25, 2020 12:13 pm

    The local population would support them.
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    Post  Rodion_Romanovic Fri Sep 25, 2020 1:12 pm

    Hole wrote:The local population would support them.
    Local population from where? And support whom? Question
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    Post  Tsavo Lion Fri Sep 25, 2020 6:38 pm

    Japan is losing hope for the annexation of the Kuril Islands
    https://regnum.ru/news/polit/3072664.html

    IMO the Russians, Japanese, Chinese & Koreans would all benefit if Japan becomes part of Russia as an autonomy. Then the RFE will be better populated by the mixture of all 4 & in 2-3 generations Japanese militarism/revanchism will be ancient history. 
    Otherwise, there will be more wars between them & Chinese &/ Koreans.


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    Post  Tsavo Lion Sat Oct 31, 2020 4:49 pm

    Tanks to be deployed there: https://ria.ru/20201031/kurily-1582453943.html
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    Post  franco Sat Oct 31, 2020 5:03 pm

    Tsavo Lion wrote:Tanks to be deployed there: https://ria.ru/20201031/kurily-1582453943.html

    Tanks have always been there but are getting upgraded. The Japanese complain every time any improvements are made.
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    Post  Tsavo Lion Sat Oct 31, 2020 5:26 pm

    Their #s will now most probably will be increased. What will happen with the old tanks- will they be removed to the mainland & stored/scrapped?

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