The disputed Kunashiri, Etorofu, Shikotan and Habomai islands of the Kuril Island chain were seized by the Soviet Union at ...

Igor Samarin and his colleagues study the site of an Imperial Japanese Army airfield near Lake Toro-numa (Lake Sopochnoe) on Etorofu island in September 2020. Slabs of concrete used for the runway ...

Aug. 13), when Russian Foreign Minister Dmitry Shepilov brusquely refused to consider a treaty which would return to Japan the small southern Kuril islands of Kunashiri and Etorofu, the Japanese ...

Some stayed on Kunashiri, while others headed to the island of Etorofu. The flight to Etorofu took 35 minutes. In the town of Rubetsu, local residents had mowed the grass around the graves on a ...

Disputed islands Out of these three islands claimed by Japan, only the Senkakus are held by Tokyo at present, while Takeshima is controlled by South Korea, and the Northern Territories (Etorofu ...

The report also noted that 18 hours after a magnitude-7.0 earthquake hit off Etorofu island in the Kuril Islands in 1963, another quake of 8.5 magnitude struck. Although an earthquake of 8.0 ...

Etorofu, and Shikotan. The four islands (known as the Southern Kurils in Russia) had been Japanese-owned since 1855, when Russia and Japan agreed in the Treaty of Shimoda that they belonged to Japan.

Plans include finishing the construction of 392 buildings and facilities in the Itrurup and Kunashir islands (known as Etorofu and Kunashiri in Japan) by the end of this year. Shoigu also revealed ...

The disputed Kunashiri, Etorofu, Shikotan and Habomai islands of the Kuril Island chain were seized by the Soviet Union at the end of World War II. Japan claimed them as its "Northern Territories ...