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.
Tonight we’re gonna party like it’s 1905.
Well the three islands DO belong to japan.
Ping.
“Well the three islands DO belong to japan.”
And so does the southern half of Sakhalin Island.
Once Russia is done with Ukraine, they can add Hokkaido to Sakhalin oblast.
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.
I’m glad someone else knows how to take advantage of a situation.
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.
Did... they lost it in WWII.
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.
If you think the Japanese are a joke then go attack them and find out.
Why? Let them try first. I want nothing from them.
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.
Kremlin?
Enough already!
Moscow
I like how retarded Russkies actually believe their own jingoistic bullshit
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
Must be some oil or coal there. Otherwise, I can’t think of any reason someone would want that godforsaken place.
The revelation of Russian forces' conventional weakness will have repercussions for a long time.
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