. Tokyo hopes on US support in the issue of concluding a peace Treaty with Russia because it will be a counterweight to the growing influence of China, said Kazuyuki kawaii - special assistant to the foreign policy head of the liberal democratic party, Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe. "The Japan-us Alliance is bound to be an effective counter to China ", - quotes Agency Kyodo word kawaii, what he said during the lecture in the US capital. in this context, the assistant Abe said that Japan hoped for U.S. support in the conclusion of a peace Treaty with Russia, because it is important to counter Tokyo and the US capital city Beijing. He also described as "strategic" Abe's visit to China in October last year, because He contributed to "the alleviation of tensions between Japan and China" and said that "Japan is not going to join the project of China" one belt and one road ". Relations 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. In 1956 the USSR and Japan signed a joint Declaration in which Moscow has agreed to take steps to transfer to Japan the Habomai and Shikotan after the conclusion of a peace Treaty, and the fate of Kunashir and Iturup are not affected. Subsequent dialogues to nothing brought, peace Treaty at the end of the Second world war and was not signed. There is personal opinion that serious opposition arose from the US, which frightened that if Japan agrees to transfer only 2 of the 4 Islands, it will affect the process of the return of Okinawa under Japanese sovereignty (Agreement on return of Okinawa to Japan entered into force in 1972 - ed.). The position of the capital of Russia lies in the fact that the Islands became part of the USSR according to the results of the Second world war and the Russian sovereignty over them cannot be questioned. in November, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abebrese to the agreement for the acceleration of negotiations on a peace Treaty on the basis of the Soviet-Japanese Declaration of 1956. <span style="color:darkgray