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Tokyo exploits global anti-Russia sentiment to announce Kremlin-controlled Kuril Islands belong to Japan
City AM ^ | 3.9.2022 | Michiel Willems

Posted on 03/15/2022 11:22:50 AM PDT by libh8er

Fumio Kishida, Japan’s prime minister, said that southern Kuril Islands are a sovereign part of his country, and not part of Russia, which has controlled the group of islands since 1945.

Speaking in the Diet earlier this week, Kishida told lawmakers the Kuril Islands are “original territories of Japan”.

The islands have been a point of controversy between Japan and the Russia for decades. Moscow took control of the islands after World War II in 1945.

In recent years, the Japanese government had refrained from referring to the islands as its “original territories” in order to avoid upsetting the Russian government.

However, following the global anti-Moscow sentiment since the invasion of Ukraine, the Japanese government has reinstated its historic claim on the silands.

“The Northern Territories belong to Japan. They are the territory on which Japan has sovereignty,” Kishida said.

In fact, on 29 February, on the second day of the Russian invasion, Japan’s foreign minister, Hideki Uyama, even went so far to say that Russia had “occupied” the southern part of the Kuril Islands, thereby violating international law.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: japan; kuril; kurilislands; morekeywordkarens; moreoldnews; russia
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1 posted on 03/15/2022 11:22:50 AM PDT by libh8er
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To: libh8er

Tonight we’re gonna party like it’s 1905.


2 posted on 03/15/2022 11:23:25 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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3 posted on 03/15/2022 11:25:23 AM PDT by throwthebumsout
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To: libh8er

Well the three islands DO belong to japan.


4 posted on 03/15/2022 11:26:07 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: KC_Lion

Ping.


5 posted on 03/15/2022 11:30:05 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: skeeter

“Well the three islands DO belong to japan.”

And so does the southern half of Sakhalin Island.


6 posted on 03/15/2022 11:39:19 AM PDT by MercyFlush (I don't follow the science. I follow the money. )
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To: MercyFlush

Once Russia is done with Ukraine, they can add Hokkaido to Sakhalin oblast.


7 posted on 03/15/2022 11:40:54 AM PDT by NorseViking
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To: MercyFlush

It was the US who dropped the bomb a week early. Russia agreed to fight Japan 100 days after Germany lost. They took the islands 100 days after as planned. Had we waited a week they probably wouldn’t have r at least not attacked as hard.


8 posted on 03/15/2022 11:41:56 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (S)
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To: libh8er

I’m glad someone else knows how to take advantage of a situation.


9 posted on 03/15/2022 11:43:44 AM PDT by jdsteel ("A Republic, Madam, if you can keep it." Sorry Ben, looks like we blew it.)
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To: NorseViking

Russia would get its *** kicked HARD if it took on Japan. Their military is top notch and probably the best in the world right now...even over the US.

I’ve been in exercises with some of their guys and they are no joke. Collectively speaking I’ve never seen better soldiers. Lots of militaries have soldiers who perform at an elite level. With the Japanese it’s hard to find one who doesn’t.

But hey, if you guys want to go dance with them then go for it. They’ll make the Kremlin into a groovy shopping mall if there’s anything left of it.


10 posted on 03/15/2022 11:46:05 AM PDT by MercyFlush (I don't follow the science. I follow the money. )
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To: MercyFlush

Did... they lost it in WWII.


11 posted on 03/15/2022 11:48:32 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: MercyFlush

You are kidding, yes? Look at how the Canadian and South Korean special operators are doing in Ukraine right now. The few who survived are running for their lives.


12 posted on 03/15/2022 11:50:09 AM PDT by NorseViking
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If you think the Japanese are a joke then go attack them and find out.


13 posted on 03/15/2022 11:53:24 AM PDT by MercyFlush (I don't follow the science. I follow the money. )
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To: MercyFlush

Why? Let them try first. I want nothing from them.


14 posted on 03/15/2022 11:57:32 AM PDT by NorseViking
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To: DIRTYSECRET
It was the US who dropped the bomb a week early. Russia agreed to fight Japan 100 days after Germany lost.

And the reason the USA dropped the bomb was to stop the USSR from invading Japan, and to stop the USSR at the 38th Parallel zone. Japanese cities had already been destroyed by conventional means (fire-bombing etc.) and the nukes were only a continuation of that. Japan's government realized they had more to fear from a Russian invasion than from the USA. By treaty with the Russians, the Kuril Islands were excluded from transfer to the USSR after WWII but the USSR took them by force anyway. By international law, the islands belong to Japan.

15 posted on 03/15/2022 11:58:17 AM PDT by roadcat
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To: libh8er

Kremlin?

Enough already!

Moscow


16 posted on 03/15/2022 12:25:02 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the U S of A, and to the REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: NorseViking

I like how retarded Russkies actually believe their own jingoistic bullshit


17 posted on 03/15/2022 12:33:31 PM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

I like how retarded Russkies actually believe their own jingoistic bullshit

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Yeah, I sure am glad no one in the US is guilty of believing their own jingoistic BS. /s


18 posted on 03/15/2022 12:48:38 PM PDT by Bishop_Malachi (Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
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To: libh8er

Must be some oil or coal there. Otherwise, I can’t think of any reason someone would want that godforsaken place.


19 posted on 03/15/2022 12:54:08 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: dfwgator
Banzai!

The revelation of Russian forces' conventional weakness will have repercussions for a long time.

20 posted on 03/15/2022 12:55:48 PM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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