Abe has softened the rhetoric on the Kuril Islands
. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, communicating with parliamentarians, said that sovereignty over the South Kuril Islands belongs to Tokyo, but did not use another traditional wording.
One of the deputies asked me if these Islands "the native territory of Japan" - that is the official Position of Tokyo.
in his own response, Abe has tried to defend this turn. His words leads Agency Kyodo.
The dialogue between Russia and Japan for many years overshadows the lack of a peace Treaty.
Japan claims the Islands of Kunashir, Shikotan, Iturup and Habomai, indicating bilateral Treatise on trade and borders of 1855. The return of the Islands Tokyo made it a condition of signing a peace Treaty with Russia, which at the end of the Second world war and was not signed.
in 1956 the USSR and Japan signed a joint Declaration in which Moscow has agreed to take steps to transfer Habomai and Shikotan after the conclusion of peace, the fate of Kunashir and Iturup are not affected. The USSR hoped that the document will put an end to the dispute, Japan saw this as only part of the resolution of the issue. Subsequent dialogues nor to no avail.
The position of the capital of Russia is that the southern Kuril Islands became part of the USSR according to the results of the Second world war and the Russian sovereignty over them with appropriate international legal design, not subject to doubt.
in November - after a meeting between Putin and Abe in Singapore parties declared the acceleration of the negotiating process on a peace Treaty and the Kuril Islands. For a basis decided to take the document of 1956, which was a major concession from Japan.
the dialogue is complicated by the fact that Tokyo supports the anti-Russian punishment.