Japan through diplomatic channels has protested Russia because of firing exercises near the island of Kunashir, said the Secretary General of the Cabinet of Ministers of Yoshihide Suga. according to his statement, Tokyo collects data about the maneuvers, which are scheduled from the 5th to the tenth of August. before foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in response to the concern of Japan over the Russian military activity in the Southern Kurils claimed that with weapons of forces operate on its 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 concluding peace with Russia, which at the end of the Second world war and was not signed. 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 2018 in Singapore hosted a meeting of Vladimir Putin and Shinzo Abe. The parties agreed to accelerate the negotiation process on the basis of mutual Declaration of 1956, which was a major concession from Japan. <span style="color:darkgray