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Japan ends long-running Russia outreach as war, Western pressure and suspicions take toll

All six Japan Centres in Russia, set up after the Soviet collapse to foster trade and cultural ties, are set to close soon Tokyo will close all six of its government-funded Japan Centre offices in ...
Reuters

Russia says peace talks with Japan only possible if Tokyo abandons 'anti-Russian course'

MOSCOW, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Russia said on Thursday that any dialogue with Japan regarding a peace treaty to formally end World War Two could only begin once Tokyo abandoned what Moscow described as a ...
TASS

Under Abe, Russia and Japan made progress towards peace — Putin

The Russian president said that signing a peace treaty between Russia and Japan was a dream that Shinzo Abe chased MOSCOW, May 29. /TASS/. During former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s tenure, ...
The Diplomat

80 Years Ago, the Soviets Occupied Japan’s Northern Territories – With US Support

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, and Soviet leader Josef Stalin at the Yalta Conference, Feb. 9, 1945. Credit: UK National Archives Eight decadess ago, on ...
Foreign Affairs

How Moscow Has Rekindled Its Influence in the Post-Soviet Space

After Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, many Western analysts and scholars who study post-Soviet countries expected those countries’ governments and publics to express solidarity with Ukraine ...