. The Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe did not want to answer in Parliament to a question about the possibility of Russia's transfer of 2-Islands the " Northern territories ". So in Tokyo called Kunashir, Iturup, Shikotan and Habomai. on persistent questions of other deputies about the government's position on the Islands the politician said that the "legal position" has changed. However, he studiously avoided naming the Islands " native Japanese territory ", as did all the head post-war governments. before the same hearings, foreign Minister Taro Kono on the provocative question of the Deputy of the Islands also gave a vague answer. Mostly it was a General phrase about the fact that the signing of the peace Treaty involves the question of compensation. It does not specify what compensation it is conducted. last week the government Also refrained from response to parliamentary question, whether native Southern Kurils Japanese territory. Also first "National Convention for return of Northern territories" for the first time in postwar history did not call the Southern Kurils " illegally occupied by Russia territory ". 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 the mutual 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's support of anti-Russian punishment. <span style="color:darkgray