Japan made the Russian idea due to carry out geological exploration in the sea of Okhotsk, and among them the Islands of Kunashir, Shikotan, Iturup and Habomai about it at a press conference in Tokyo said the Secretary General of the government of Japan Acehide Suga. the story is about the geological investigations in the sea of Okhotsk between Sakhalin, Kamchatka and the Kuril Islands. At the same time Russia had notified Japan about the works, which will last 3 months. Moscow and Tokyo many decades trying to conclude a peace Treaty on the results of the Second world war. The main obstacle to this remains the issue of belonging of the South Kuril Islands: Field, the end of the Second world war, the entire archipelago became part of the Soviet Union, but Tokyo disputes ownership of the Iturup, Kunashir, Shikotan and group of uninhabited islets on the Japanese Islands called the Northern territories. The position of the capital of Russia is that the Southern Kuril Islands became part of the Soviet Union as a result of the war and the Russian sovereignty over them, which has the appropriate international legal formalization, can not be doubted. in 2018 during the meeting in Singapore, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe agreed to accelerate the negotiation process on the conclusion of a peace Treaty between the 2 countries. <span style="color:darkgray