Japan returned the formulation of identity, " Northern territories ", as called here Kunashir, Iturup, Shikotan and Habomai, designating them as " Islands subject to the sovereignty of our country ", informed the Agency Kyodo. Minister of foreign Affairs of tosimitsu Motegi at the meeting of the government showed a "Blue book on diplomacy," annual report on relations with other countries. last year, the document was missing the wording " the four Northern Islands belong to Japan ", which was in her in 2018. The Agency believes that the replacement of this phrase with more soft About the fact that Tokyo intends to resolve the territorial issue and conclude a peace Treaty with Russia was dictated by the intention of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to come to agreement on the framework peace agreement with Russia. However, It provoked criticism from conservative and opposition of the deputies and politicians. The return formulation is explained, according to Kyodo, the stagnation in the negotiation process between the 2 countries. "Blue book" also covers the relationship with other neighbors of Japan. So, in the section where it is reported about South Korea, marked a difficult dialogue in the past year, but came back the wording About It's " important neighboring countries ". The missile launches, the DPRK called "a serious challenge to the world community" but said that Tokyo is ready to negotiate without any conditions with this government. About China says that Japan wants to start meeting postponed due to coronavirus the visit of the President of the PRC XI Jinping to build a " Mature Sino-Japanese relations in the new era ". the Secretary General of the government of Japan Acehide Suga drew attention at a press conference that the wording adopted as a result of " integrated solutions, taking into account different circumstances ". Japan claims the southern Kurile 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. The USSR had hoped for, because It will put an end to the dispute, Japan believed the document only part of the settlement, without abandoning claims to all the Islands. Subsequent dialogues to nothing brought, peace Treaty 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 2018 in Singapore, according to the results of the summit, Abe said that the parties agreed to accelerate the negotiation process on the document about the world on the basis of the Soviet-Japanese Declaration of 1956. This was a major concession from Tokyo, But as long as the parties have not come to a final agreement. <span style="color:darkgray