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Japan slams Russia move to end disputed Kuril Islands peace talks over sanctions
South China Morning Post ^ | March 22, 2022 | Reuters

Posted on 03/22/2022 4:14:03 PM PDT by Trump20162020

Japan reacted angrily on Tuesday after Russia withdrew from peace treaty talks with Tokyo and froze joint economic projects related to the disputed Kuril Islands because of sanctions imposed by the Kishida administration over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.

Moscow and Tokyo have still not formally ended World War II hostilities because of the stand-off over islands just off Japan’s northernmost island of Hokkaido, known in Russia as the Kurils and in Japan as the Northern Territories. The islands were seized by the Soviet Union at the end of second world war.

Japan has imposed sanctions on 76 individuals, seven banks and 12 other bodies in Russia, most recently on Friday, and included defence officials and the state-owned arms exporter, Rosoboronexport.

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1 posted on 03/22/2022 4:14:03 PM PDT by Trump20162020
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To: Trump20162020

Japan went first, going along with Bidens sanctions


2 posted on 03/22/2022 4:15:54 PM PDT by silverleaf (“Freedom ultimately means the right of other people to do things that you disagree with”. T. Sowell )
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To: silverleaf

Biden had no sanctions.

No real ones.


3 posted on 03/22/2022 4:20:10 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Trump20162020

Are you sure you want them back after the Russians being there all this time ? They probably dumped everything under the sun there


4 posted on 03/22/2022 4:20:50 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Trump20162020

Russia and China, two of the best nations a suicidal neighbor
could ask for.


5 posted on 03/22/2022 4:22:35 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge a llegiance to the flag of the U S of A, and to the REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: Trump20162020

Japan.

You went woked.

What the fook did you think would happen?


6 posted on 03/22/2022 4:32:54 PM PDT by 2banana (Common ground with islamic terrorists-they want to die for allah and we want to arrange the meeting)
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To: Trump20162020

Japan already opened a can on Russia in 1905.


7 posted on 03/22/2022 4:40:09 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (The GOP is the UN of US politics)
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To: Trump20162020

Not sure Japan should play up this dispute all that much. Still a lot of raw feelings about Japan in East Asia in particular. A lot of Asians would see Russia’s seizing control of the islands as fairly legit. The The Japs are lucky more territory wasn’t taken from them.


8 posted on 03/22/2022 4:46:21 PM PDT by Long Jon No Silver
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To: Trump20162020

Sanctions have consequences Tojo.


9 posted on 03/22/2022 4:49:16 PM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera )
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To: silverleaf

C’mon. The Russians weren’t going to give them back, anyway. Absent some gigantic bribe or concession from Japan.


10 posted on 03/22/2022 4:57:02 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Yes they did, And Russia got even near the end of WW2.

What Russia's military did across the Manchurian area was simply amazing.

This is the problem I have with people on here thumping their chests for war. Both those countries, the Ukraine and Russia are barbaric in nature. They have little regard for life.

Russia will use whatever methods they see fit to gain an objective and now there is a man at the helm who is obviously gone off the cliff.

Only since the early 1990s had these two countries started to join the modern society. That is all gone now.

11 posted on 03/22/2022 5:03:27 PM PDT by crz
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To: Trump20162020

What became of those three Russian troop ships Japan was tracking?


12 posted on 03/22/2022 5:07:47 PM PDT by BenLurkin ((The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.))
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To: silverleaf

In the spring and early summer of 1945, the main Japanese diplomats put their faith in the Soviets to mediate with the allied powers and soften the demands of the Potsdam conference. At the last minute, when everything was falling apart, nuclear bombs were falling and the Japanese had not heard from the Soviet diplomat in days, they finally got through to him. He listened for a few seconds to their desperate pleas, then cut them off by telling them the Soviet Union was declaring war on them! It goes to show what happens when you rely on diplomacy combined with weakness.


13 posted on 03/22/2022 5:11:21 PM PDT by ga1948
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

The Battle of Tsushima Strait was one of the most lopsided losses in naval history.

All because 1) Russia was too confident, 2) They had no idea about the Japanese technology (Japanese were actively trained in using Morse code while the Russians had crappy German sets that no one knew how to use) and 3) the win wasn’t about the Japanese beating the Russians, but the Japanese Navy outshowing the Japanese Army that were still engaged in Port Arthur


14 posted on 03/22/2022 6:29:00 PM PDT by struggle
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