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Comment: Russia’s policy towards Japan

  • UPSC 1993
  • 20 marks
  • Recent Developments in Indian Foreign Policy

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Russia's policy towards Japan has been shaped for eight decades by one unresolved question: the southern Kuril Islands, which Japan calls the Northern Territories (Iturup, Kunashir, Shikotan and the Habomai group). Soviet forces seized them in 1945, and the dispute has prevented a peace treaty ever since. Moscow has repeatedly sought Japanese capital and technology…

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