Japan has periodically expressed unease about Russia beefing up its military infrastructure on the disputed island chain.

The climate-altering eruption came from the Zavaritskii volcano on an uninhabited island in the Pacific that once hosted a ...

Japan is facing backlash over its territorial disputes with Russia and China, according to Chinese political analysts. The controversy surrounding the Kuril Islands has resurfaced recently ...

U.S. Marines and the Japanese Ground Self Defense will join for a bilateral exercise on Japan’s southwest islands, Japanese ...

part of the Kuril Islands archipelago, an area disputed by Russia and Japan. Before the scientists’ findings, Zavaritskii’s last known eruption was in 800 BC. “For many of Earth’s ...

The islands have been characterised by a territorial dispute between Russia and Japan, which dates back to the end of World War Two when Soviet troops seized them from the Japanese. The row has ...

A Russian team discovered a sprawling bunker complex apparently built by imperial Japanese forces on Etorofu, one of the four islands off the eastern coast of Hokkaido seized by Soviet forces at ...

It is situated on Simushir Island, a part of the Kuril Islands archipelago -- a disputed area by Russia and Japan. As per their analysis, the last eruption from Zavaritskii was in 800 BC.

Russia and Japan have never signed an official peace treaty to end the second world war because of a dispute over the Kuril Islands. The Soviet army seized the Kurils at the end of the war in 1945 ...

Scientists have identified the “mystery volcano” that erupted in 1831 and cooled Earth’s climate. They have linked it to an island volcano in the northwest Pacific Ocean.