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Japanese fighter jets fire warning flares at a Russian aircraft that violated Japanese airspace off Rebun Island.
2024-09-23

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova announces that Russia will cancel a 1998 agreement with Japan allowing Japanese fishermen to operate near the southern Kuril Islands, claiming that Japan is not meeting the financial obligations outlined in the agreement.
2022-06-7

Japan and Russia sign an agreement on fishing quotas after a month of negotiations. The two countries agree on Japan's quota of 2,050 tons of salmon and trout within Russia's exclusive economic zone, which is the same level as last year, while Japan agrees to pay fees of between 200–300 million yen to Russia.
2022-04-22

Russia announces it will deploy state-of-the art missile defense systems to the far eastern Kuril Islands where they and Japan have rival territorial claims dating to the end of the Second World War. Russian Defence Minister Sergey Shoygu also says that Russia will form new defence units in the country's Western Military District in response to NATO's recent deployment of forces to member states near its border.
2016-03-25

Russia is reportedly constructing hundreds of buildings for military use on the disputed Kunashir and Iturup islands, also claimed by Japan, in the Sea of Okhotsk. The Russian Defence Ministry said the new military buildings would help “raise the combat readiness of troops on the eastern frontiers of Russia".
2015-12-2

Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu announces Russia plans to build a new military base on the Kuril Islands, a group of Pacific islands it seized from Japan at the end of World War II.
2015-10-22

Russia and Japan begin discussing the main starting points and modality of the upcoming talks on a peace treaty.
2013-08-19

Three astronauts, Sunita Williams of the United States, Yuri Malenchenko of Russia and Aki Hoshide of Japan, arrive at the International Space Station for a three month visit.
2012-07-17

Japan temporarily recalls its ambassador to Russia amid a dispute over a visit by President Dmitry Medvedev to the Kuril Islands.
2010-11-2

The President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev visits Kunashiri, one of the southern Kuril Islands that are the subject of the Kuril Islands dispute between Russia and Japan.
2010-11-1