More than 20 earthquakes have hit central and southeast Asia in the last 24 hours, with one of the most powerful in 75 years ...

The Kalibr cruise missile, which has a range of up to 1,550 miles, has seen extensive use in strikes against Ukraine.

The Kuril Islands comprise an archipelago of four islands between Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula and the northernmost part of Japan, Hokkaido Island. Before World War II, the islands were a part of ...

TOKYO, May 23. /TASS/. A group of citizens of southern Kuril Islands arrived on Thursday in northern Japan under a visa-free exchange program, authorities of the Nemuro port in the Hokkaido ...

ST. PETERSBURG, October 14. /TASS/. Ultimatum-sounding remarks by Japan’s newly-elected Prime Minister Fumio Kishida that Tokyo won’t agree to sign a peace treaty with Moscow without settling ...

The blunt remarks by Medvedev, a former president who is deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, over what Moscow calls the Kuril islands are likely to anger Japan which lays claim to four ...

MOSCOW--Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that he will definitely one day visit the Southern Kuril Islands which are at the centre of a dispute with Japan that has lasted since World War Two.

Japan's prime minister may finally have to give up hope of making progress on a long-standing territorial dispute.

They developed their own distinct language, history and culture, which were quite different from Japanese, and also lived in northern Honshu, Sakhalin and the Kuril islands. The Ainu people hunted ...