Japan officially names the southern Kuril Islands "illegally occupied" by Russia

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The Southern Kuril Islands are "illegally occupied" by Russia. In Japan, they officially returned to the wording that had not been used for 19 years. The non-recognition of Russia's sovereignty over the islands is spelled out in the Blue Book of Diplomacy, published by the Japanese Foreign Ministry annually since 1957.

Today, April 22, 2022, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs published an annual guide to foreign policy called "The Blue Book". According to the Japanese press, a new wording has appeared in the document regarding the southern Kuril Islands, which has not been used since 2003. They were again called "illegally occupied" and did this against the backdrop of Russia's special operation in Ukraine. The fact that the islands "belong" to Japan has been claimed for the past 11 years.



The document clearly states that due to the fact that the Russian army is conducting a military operation in Ukraine, it is difficult to talk about the prospects for concluding a peace treaty and returning the "illegally occupied" "northern territories."

(...) the northern territories are an integral part of Japan, but they are currently illegally occupied by Russia

says the Blue Book.

Earlier, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced the termination of negotiations with Japan on a peace treaty in connection with the unfriendly policy of Tokyo against the background of the military operation conducted by the Russian army in Ukraine. At the same time, Moscow banned visa-free entry to the Kuril Islands for Japanese citizens and suspended joint economic activities in the South Kuriles.

Such actions of Russia greatly surprised the Japanese, who literally said: "What are we for?" Tokyo expressed bewilderment at the decision, saying that the sanctions they are imposing against Russia should not be linked to peace treaty negotiations.
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  1. +20
    April 22 2022 06: 59
    The Japanese look out to sea. Islands....
    Close, not bring them back.
    1. +15
      April 22 2022 07: 10
      It's time to start a special operation against the Japanese Nazi militarists! It is necessary to demilitarize and hold a referendum in the Hokkaido region on joining the Primorsky Territory. Carry out the privatization of Toyota and Mitsubishi heavy industry. Ato got excited, you know. They will know how to swallow dust in the MFC.
      1. 0
        April 22 2022 07: 19
        The Japanese are generally a sick nation in principle. Take their entertainment and traditions. And here it’s just a mantra that has nothing to do with reality, but calms them down. Well, come on, maybe less will be thrown out of the windows.
        1. 0
          April 22 2022 07: 27
          They have a forest of suicides on the slopes of Fujiyama for this.
        2. +2
          April 22 2022 08: 40
          Let them gather together on the northeastern coast of Hokkaido and make themselves seppuku!
      2. 0
        April 22 2022 07: 25
        It would be more correct to say Japanese revenge-seekers! These jackals do not even hide their intentions to chop off a part of the Far East from us, the dream of the ancestors of which was not destined to come true in the distant 40s of the 20th century. They, like the rest of our neighbors, Russophobic vultures, are waiting for our weakness, economic, political, and most importantly, military.
      3. -7
        April 22 2022 08: 40
        Under the conditions of sanctions, self-invoke new hellish sanctions from the penultimate one (South Korea is already imposing sanctions and is preparing to supply weapons - the new government has finally entered there. So the miracle on the Far Eastern Star ends. One of the points of the Korean sanctions is the prohibition of cooperation in shipbuilding and stopping the supply of heavily loaded sections of tankers / gas carriers) of a technological country that has not yet imposed serious sanctions. The plan is as reliable as a Swiss watch.
        1. +2
          April 22 2022 10: 01
          Quote: donavi49
          The plan is as reliable as a Swiss watch.

          bully And what, today without ads? wink
          1. +1
            April 22 2022 10: 44

            Paranoid50 (Alexander)
            Today, 10: 01
            NEW

            +1
            Quote: donavi49
            The plan is as reliable as a Swiss watch.

            bully And what, today without advertising? wink
            Yes, it doesn't look like him at all! wink
          2. +1
            April 22 2022 12: 03
            Quote: Paranoid50
            Quote: donavi49
            The plan is as reliable as a Swiss watch.

            bully And what, today without ads? wink

            So the prepayment does not pass from the Rolex. :waat:
    2. +1
      April 22 2022 08: 43
      Quote: Nexcom
      The Japanese look out to sea. Islands....

      Let them look, "the eye sees, but the tooth is numb."
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      2. +1
        April 22 2022 14: 38
        "...
        Japan officially names the southern Kuril Islands "illegally occupied" by Russia
        ..."
        .
        - that AT LEAST "POT" CALL ...
        8-))
        .
        strange people - these Japanese
        1. 0
          April 22 2022 14: 40
          Sponia confirmed its sovereignty over the NAME of the islands.
          - Well, like, as we want - so we call it.
          Mo-lod-ca.
          8-)
  2. 0
    April 22 2022 07: 02
    The fact that the islands "belong" to Japan has been claimed for the past 11 years.

    no matter how much you say "halva" - it will not become sweeter ...
  3. +15
    April 22 2022 07: 02
    Japan officially names the southern Kuril Islands "illegally occupied" by Russia

    ***
    -Japan, with the support of the Soviet Union, became a member of the UN, signed and ratified the Charter of the organization, which contains Article 107, which states that all the results of World War II are inviolable.

    -The war between the USSR and Japan was completed on September 2, 1945 by the signing by the Japanese of an act of unconditional surrender.

    -The state of war was officially terminated on October 19, 1956, when a joint Declaration was signed: "The state of war between the USSR and Japan ceases from the date of entry into force of this Declaration, and peace and good-neighborly friendly relations are restored between them."

    -The Kuril Islands came under the control of the USSR as a result of World War II, which was stipulated in the Cairo Declaration of 1943, the Potsdam Declaration of 1945, as well as in the 1951 peace treaty signed in San Francisco.

    -Japan unconditionally recognized the Potsdam and Cairo Declarations and signed the act of surrender in 1945. And in 1951, the Japanese abandoned their claims to the Kuril Islands and Sakhalin.

    ---
    "Constitution of the Russian Federation"

    (adopted by popular vote on 12.12.1993 with amendments approved during a nationwide vote on 01.07.2020)

    Article 67,2.1-

    - "The Russian Federation ensures the protection of its sovereignty and territorial integrity. Actions aimed at alienating part of the territory of the Russian Federation, as well as calls for such actions, are not allowed."

    ----------

    Salmon tail splashed on the wave

    The islands disappeared in the fog

    They will not return

    Deal with Nihon ...
    ---

    © V.V. Vorontsov Islands of the Rising Sun of Russia
    ***
  4. +6
    April 22 2022 07: 03
    The Southern Kuril Islands are "illegally occupied" by Russia. In Japan, they officially returned to the wording that had not been used for 19 years.
    Again the Ipenets swaggers. Apparently they got another kick on the fifth point from the merikatos. bully
  5. +2
    April 22 2022 07: 04
    Yes, why in vain did the Americans swell into the Japanese economy in the post-war years of loot; after all, someone remembers the so-called "Japanese miracle" in the economy of the 60s and 70s; because the Japanese became sixes after Truman dropped the atomic bombs; and where will they go - what a bunch of American Jews will tell them, then they, standing on their hind legs, do
  6. +1
    April 22 2022 07: 08
    The document clearly states that due to the fact that the Russian army is conducting a military operation in Ukraine, it is difficult to talk about the prospects for concluding a peace treaty and returning the "illegally occupied" "northern territories."

    It was not otherwise that the Ukrainian embassy in Japan taught their Foreign Ministry the same Ukrainian proverb:
    Elderberry in the garden
    And in Kyiv, uncle

    That's just a question. How will Russia equip Hokkaido if the Zhaps climb the Kuriles? Again a new, Hokkaido, Rotenberg bridge to build?
  7. +2
    April 22 2022 07: 09
    The Japanese have finally become westernized and have become the same hypocrites as the rest of the West.
  8. +2
    April 22 2022 07: 19
    "The cat is scratching its back."
    There is no "samurai"?
  9. +3
    April 22 2022 07: 20
    Some believed so much that the Outskirts would win with the help of the West that they themselves marked new "red lines" for us.
  10. +1
    April 22 2022 07: 21
    Put a division or two Poplars there, let the narrow-eyed rejoice.
    1. 0
      April 22 2022 08: 06
      Why exactly there? US bases in Japan, I think, are already on the list of priority targets.
      1. 0
        April 22 2022 08: 10
        So let them rejoice together. laughing
  11. +12
    April 22 2022 07: 22
    In contacts with Japan at all directions and levels, make it a rule to begin communication, how to say hello, with a sincere expression of sympathy for the US occupation of their sovereign territories, as well as condolences due to the fact that they are the only people in the world who were subjected to nuclear bombing. The meaning of which was an inhuman experiment (test) of nuclear weapons on an infrastructural model, where the Japanese were used as experimental subjects.
    When transferring contacts by the Japanese to the supposedly existing problems of the northern territories (the Russian Kuriles), it should be unequivocally determined that such problems do not exist for the Russian Federation, however, we are concerned about the problems of the occupation of the Diaoyu Islands by Japan and the expediency of their immediate resolution with the PRC.
    And most importantly, the fish. Perhaps it is already necessary to give the citizens of Russia at affordable prices to try the Far Eastern delicacies. It is sincerely doubtful that the expected profit from the volumes of seafood actually caught and sold in the same Jap goes to the budgets of the regions and the federation, it is more likely to believe that they end up in the pockets of individual citizens and in some cases not even Russian ones.
  12. 0
    April 22 2022 07: 23
    Quote. Such actions of Russia greatly surprised the Japanese, who literally said: "What are we for?" Like a blueprint from dill, would they have written For Sho?
    1. +1
      April 22 2022 08: 31
      Quote: Why do you need it?
      Quote. Such actions of Russia greatly surprised the Japanese, who literally said: "What are we for?" Like a blueprint from dill, would they have written For Sho?

      私たちは翔のために? - watashitachi ha sho no tame ni? literally, what about us? laughing
      1. 0
        April 22 2022 08: 34
        watashitachi ha sho no tame ni? laughing
        Cotton wool with hitachi, why won't me (I) ... laughing
        cotton wool with hitachi - apparently a national Japanese curse .. laughing
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  14. +1
    April 22 2022 07: 33
    Japan officially names the southern Kuril Islands "illegally occupied" by Russia

    And we are an army. We do not care how you treat them and call them. request
    The Kuriles are Russian land!
  15. +4
    April 22 2022 07: 33
    A people that does not remember its past has no future! Strange people though.
    1. -11
      April 22 2022 07: 44
      The people are looking for their way to the future, and not inventing their past three times in a century for the sake of the current government. By the way, it’s not bad for a seeker like that: already operating nanotechnologies at the level of 7-8 nm, and not “that’s all” at 40-60 from some Rosnana.
      As for the veneration of traditions, the Japs have much more content and variety with this than on one-eighth of the land.
      1. +4
        April 22 2022 08: 31
        Japan "looking for the future" ended in the 80s. Stagnation is worse than the USSR. From a country that really claimed to forever become the first and unattainable technologically and financially on a global scale, by the year 2000 it had become an ordinary state. By the way, this is a whole epic how the "Japanese miracle" collapsed, the echoes of this collapse are often found in Japanese art, a sore local topic.
  16. +2
    April 22 2022 07: 36
    Japan can declare anything, neither Japan nor South Korea have actually been independent states for a very long time ...
  17. -3
    April 22 2022 07: 40
    With what measure you measure, it will be measured to you, and even added.
    Gospel of Mark 4:24 - Mark 4:24
    hi
  18. 0
    April 22 2022 07: 42
    And what to expect from them? The country is still under occupation, what the "white master" ordered, then they do.
  19. 0
    April 22 2022 07: 45
    such statements cannot be forgiven. just a war
  20. 0
    April 22 2022 07: 47
    Were yours, became ours! The ship on which the surrender of Japan was signed has long gone down in history.
  21. +1
    April 22 2022 07: 49
    The sun sets behind Sakhalin,
    And in the Kuril Islands
    143 Japanese saved
    And 30 thousand turtles.
    ***
    A paraphrase of the unforgettable M.M. Zhvanetsky: don’t teach a Japanese - he crawls to the cemetery anyway.
  22. -1
    April 22 2022 07: 53
    So interesting, it's creepy. The Japanese islands are the illegally occupied territory of Russia.
  23. +2
    April 22 2022 07: 54
    On the slopes of Mount Fuji
    Fuck blossomed
    Do not see the Japanese Kuril
  24. Two
    +2
    April 22 2022 07: 59
    hi Dreaming is not bad! It's good not to dream! A quarter of "Sarmat" is enough to relieve that "unbearable pain of memories and sorrows" that overwhelms the Chukhosamurai every time in the spring.
    1. -3
      April 22 2022 08: 36
      Japan has legal guarantees from the United States - therefore, in response, Russian cities will be reset to zero, and American ones too. In this situation, the United States has no option to refuse even public guarantees - because this will mean an instant withdrawal from the geopolitical Olympus. Therefore, Biden says that despite the nuclear war, they will fight for Suwalki and every inch of NATO. Japan's guarantees are roughly similar to Article 5.
      1. Two
        +3
        April 22 2022 08: 59
        request A storm of doubt gnaws at me about the "confident guarantee of security" promised by the Americans. For them, the "Japanese" are just a place to base their forces and means. They are unlikely to ever gather to die for them.
        1. -3
          April 22 2022 09: 36
          Here we are talking about something else. If the US merges any of the allies, this will mean that the US has merged with geopolitical leadership. For today the Japans have been merged, and tomorrow the Suvalka corridor. Who needs such an ally and support? They start looking for others. For the US, this means a serious systemic crisis, which is not a fact that it will survive.
  25. +2
    April 22 2022 08: 09
    Japan officially names the southern Kuril Islands "illegally occupied" by Russia

    So, what is next? If they attack, the United States will not help - this is a private matter for Japan, and Russia has the right to use tactical nuclear weapons against Japan.
  26. +2
    April 22 2022 08: 55
    Hokkaido was supposed to leave the USSR after the Second World War, so you need to make claims to Japan on this island so that the Japanese get it, don’t wake up famously while it’s quiet, when you try to get a small one, you can lose a big one. Not now, of course, first you need to solve the golovniks in the west of the country, but you can hint to Japan even now that there is a question of belonging to Hokkaido.
  27. 0
    April 22 2022 09: 34
    I don't understand why so much attention to Japanese body movements? We don’t care what they thought of themselves there?
  28. 0
    April 22 2022 10: 56
    Japan, under the new prime minister, went into complete disarray, fully believing that the United States is their "real allies" and will always come to the rescue. Therefore, without fear for the consequences, it imposes sanctions on Russia, and talks about some primordially Japanese territories. I have a simple question - we continue to supply Japan with energy resources, timber, they are still participating in the Sakhalin-2 project ((about 60% of liquefied gas is intended for Japan) ...?
  29. 0
    April 22 2022 17: 16
    What are the Kuril Islands? Let them deal with the American occupiers on their territory, with the American soldiers who regularly rape Japanese women, primarily in Okinawa, and who do not receive any punishment for this, except for disciplinary sanctions, and that is not a fact. Let them deal with their gigantic debt, with a huge number of suicides (people work hard and just can't stand it). But no, instead of solving their pressing problems, they are looking for additional ones on their fifth point. The extremely stupid and cowardly leadership of the Japanese. They bark at Russia from around the corner, because they know that Japan didn’t give up on Russia, and they lick their heels to their real enemies-occupiers.
  30. 0
    April 23 2022 22: 14
    You can even call it a pot, but you can’t put it in the oven ...
  31. 0
    April 23 2022 22: 20
    Quote: tihonmarine
    Quote: Nexcom
    The Japanese look out to sea. Islands....

    Let them look, "the eye sees, but the tooth is numb."
    Their teeth are knocked out. Just in time for the transition of the islands.
  32. 0
    April 23 2022 22: 21
    Why are they immune to radiation? So they are not afraid of anything even Godzilla.