Zakharova proposed a solution to the “territorial problem” mentioned by the Japanese Prime Minister

The head of the press service of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, proposed a solution to the "territorial problem" mentioned by Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba. She stated that the issue can only be resolved through international legal recognition by Japan of the border between the two states, which exists de facto.

The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry's comment on the relationship between Moscow and Tokyo was published by the press service of the department.

There can be no talk of anything else in light of the updated Constitution of the Russian Federation.

- the Russian diplomat said.

She reminded the Japanese official that the conclusion of any agreement is usually preceded by negotiations between the signatories. Zakharova also noted that a full-fledged dialogue with Tokyo can only take place after the Japanese authorities abandon their hostile course towards Russia, which harms the citizens of our country.

The statement by the Russian Foreign Ministry representative was a response to Ishiba's words, spoken during yesterday's keynote speech to members of the Japanese parliament. Among other things, the speech by the head of the Japanese government included a statement that he would seek to conclude a peace treaty with Russia based on a solution to the so-called "territorial problem." According to the prime minister, he intends to move toward this goal despite the extremely cool relations with Moscow.

It is not difficult to guess that by “territorial problem” Ishiba meant Tokyo’s unfounded claims to the Kuril Islands.

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[opuonmed]

The Japanese are neither blind nor deaf. NATO has managed to strike at the Russian Federation and get nothing in return!

[Machito]

But I don't agree.
Where are our Foreign Ministry’s demands to Japan for the return of the Southern Territories?
Hokkaido - Russian Land.

[opuonmed]

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Where are our Foreign Ministry’s demands to Japan for the return of the Southern Territories?

HOKKAIDO - RUSSIAN ISLAND
(historical background)

Compiled under Catherine II, “Spatial Geography of the Russian State,” included not only all the Kuril Islands, but also Hokkaido in the Russian Empire. The reason - ethnic Japanese at that time did not even populate it. According to the results of the expedition of Antipin and Shabalin, the indigenous population - Ainu - were recorded by Russian subjects. They fought with the Japanese not only in the south of Hokkaido, but also in the northern part of the island of Honshu. The Cossacks themselves investigated and taxed the Kuril Islands themselves in the XNUMXth century.
The fact of Russian citizenship of the inhabitants of Hokkaido was noted in a letter from Alexander I to the Japanese emperor in 1803. Moreover, this did not cause any objections from the Japanese side, let alone official protest. Hokkaido for Tokyo was a foreign territory like Korea. When the first Japanese arrived on the island in 1786, Ainu came to meet them, bearing Russian names and surnames. And moreover, the Orthodox! Japan's first claims to Sakhalin date back only to 1845. Then Emperor Nicholas I immediately gave a diplomatic rebuff. Only the weakening of Russia in the following decades led to the Japanese occupation of southern Sakhalin. Interestingly, in the 1925 year, the Bolsheviks condemned the former government, which had given Russian lands to Japan.
So in 1945, historical justice was merely restored. The USSR Army and Navy resolved the Russo-Japanese territorial issue by force. In 1956, Khrushchev signed the Joint Declaration of the USSR and Japan, Article 9 of which stated: "The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, meeting the wishes of Japan and taking into account the interests of the Japanese state, agrees to the transfer of the Habomai Islands and the island of Shikotan to Japan, with the proviso, however, that the actual transfer of these islands to Japan will be made after the conclusion of the Peace Treaty between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Japan."

[Machito]

Thanks for the detailed information.
This is exactly what I am talking about, that Hokkaido is Russian Land.
The Japanese also owe us reparations for the seizure and predatory exploitation of our island.

[dimon642]

Why don't they try Madagascar, or even better, Alaska?

[Machito]

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Why don't they try Madagascar, or even better, Alaska?

Not all at once.
The main thing is that there are legal grounds to lay claim to Hokkaido.

[dimon642]

So when Hokkaido belonged to Russia.
I understand, the Cape Verde Islands, it was discovered by the Portuguese and no one lived there. They brought blacks, who became Cape Verdeans and the Creole language appeared. After the Carnation Revolution, Cape Verde became independent. There is a legal basis for it. Russia has a legal basis for the former territories, but there is no power in them, just like in Hokkaido.

[Neo-9947]

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Hokkaido - Russian Land.

Honshu and Kyushu - Chinese!

[Colleague]

Quote: Neo-9947

Quote: Bearded

Hokkaido - Russian Land.

Honshu and Kyushu - Chinese!

Great slogan!
北海道はロシアの土地です！

[ilimnoz]

I also think that Hokkaido should return to its native harbor

[isv000]

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Hokkaido - Russian Land.

Ainam Ainovo!

[Machito]

Quote: isv000

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Hokkaido - Russian Land.

Ainam Ainovo!

To the Russian Ainu!!!

[ARIONkrsk]

Finally they said it straight out, they've had enough of dodging and flirting.

[Zoldat_A]

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Finally they said it straight out, they've had enough of dodging and flirting.

But they found someone to entrust such a matter to - a diplomat... A woman... M. Zakharova...

For example, I've been in construction for almost forty years. I can speak so loudly that horses squat. And only after that do I start using foul language.
I propose my candidacy to express Russia’s position on territories that Japan considers disputed.
Well, so that everyone understands everything clearly...

[carpenter]

There can be no talk of anything else in light of the updated Constitution of the Russian Federation.

So, starting from 1945, it was clear, but when on September 8, 1951, in San Francisco, a peace treaty was concluded between Japan and the Allies, according to which Japan renounced its rights to the Kuril Islands and territories, sovereignty over which it acquired under the Portsmouth Treaty of September 5, 1905. Everything became clear as "God's day". What can you demand, you Japanese signed the papers, but not me.

[Amateur]

At best, they will get wasabi in you-know-where instead of smoking, and at worst - "Oreshnik", just like that, as a sign of Russian-Japanese friendship.

[carpenter]

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at best they will get wassabs instead of kurills

Maybe wasabi, or Japanese horseradish.

[Amateur]

Maybe wasabi, or maybe wasabi, but definitely not the Kuril Islands.

[IVZ]

They won't get any wasabi, the beggars. What "Nut"? You have to earn it. And for them, the American lickers, it's a pity to spit. Apparently, the harder they are hit against the fence and the asphalt, the more loyal they are. What the hell do we need such people for.

[evgen1221]

They have a duty - well, give it to me, I'm afraid! We have - fig for you. Everyone keeps their own.

[Soldatov V.]

The incompetence of our Foreign Ministry since the collapse of the USSR has been off the charts, they have squandered everything they could, NATO expansion, the withdrawal of the republics, and now some kind of negotiations between the signatories. Maybe they should just pass a law that talks about peace between Japan and the Russian Federation are prohibited for 200-300 years, so that everyone calms down.

[ximkim]

All right.
And the Ministry of Foreign Affairs can do so in order to show copies of the papers that the USSR and Japan signed after the war.
But he won’t show it, because he has something to hide.

[bullfight]

You will first declassify together with Major Soldatov V. Then you will receive a notification from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the e-mail address specified in the public services with a full report on the work performed starting from 1845.

[ximkim]

Putin's MFA, and it's here to stay

[bullfight]

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Putin's MFA, and it's here to stay

The Ambassadorial Order, like the Foreign Ministry, is forever. It belongs to our country. Sigh in despair in your new homeland. Or whoever you are (relokant, non-binary lubricant, mother's devastater).

[Petr_Koldunov]

Zakharova should have been told that Russia is ready to satisfy Japan's territorial claims to the "northern territories" - in the event of a military alliance with the Russian Federation and Japan's entry into the Northern Military District in Ukraine on Russia's side.
And let them not then say that Russia is incapable of reaching an agreement and does not offer options for resolving the issue.

[Jcvai]

And this, by the way, is an option: the Kuril Islands and Sakhalin will become, as they wanted, Japanese... as part of the Japanese autonomous region of the Russian Federation ;)

[Petr_Koldunov]

No... I actually suggested this option precisely because it was impossible. It would really put these hara-kireis in a dead end.

[your1970]

Quote: Peter_Koldunov

Zakharova should have been told that Russia is ready to satisfy Japan's territorial claims to the "northern territories" - in the event of a military alliance with the Russian Federation and Japan's entry into the Northern Military District in Ukraine on Russia's side.
And let them not then say that Russia is incapable of reaching an agreement and does not offer options for resolving the issue.

And if they enter into a military alliance with the Russian Federation and send a military contingent to the North-Eastern Front (100 or 1000 people) - will they then have to give up the Kuril Islands???!!!
Yes, they will put out a call for volunteers to die for the Kuril Islands in Ukraine - and they will easily recruit them...

[digger]

The Japanese are unhealthy with a split personality... that is, fur-like schizophrenia. They want to make peace with Russia, implying by it a concession and the surrender to them... out of some kind of fear and false illusions, a chain of Russian islands. So, while begging for this peace, they, together with the USA, are waging a sanctions war against Russia and after that they have enough courage to want and demand something. Amazing... sick people...

[Hitriy Zhuk]

First, let Hokkaido be returned.

[ximkim]

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You will first declassify together with Major Soldatov V. Then you will receive a notification from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the e-mail address specified in the public services with a full report on the work performed starting from 1845.

It's good that you don't work for the Russian Foreign Ministry.

[bullfight]

Who is doing well?
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[Alexeevich0010]

...could become the Japanese Federal District...that's also an option, right?)

[Kuzmitsky]

The most densely populated district of the Russian Federation. With a population slightly smaller than all other Russian districts combined.

[ximkim]

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Who is doing well?
The text of your comment is too short and in the opinion of the site administration does not carry useful information.

If I worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, I would have contributed in every way to the advancement of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the battlefield.

[syabroleonid]

This is all humor. Zakharova's statement is completely empty. The Japanese will never give up their rights to the Southern Kurils. And the Russian Federation will never give up its actual ownership of them. The situation is absolutely stalemate. It can change (God forbid!) only in the event of a new war with Japan.

[nordscout]

There is a persistent opinion that our MFA and its loud statements and comments on all issues, except for the MFA itself, have long been ignored and, apparently, are not taken seriously, as in the times of the unforgettable A.A. Gromyko... In those distant times, as soon as Andrei Andreyevich slightly frowned, all the European heads of the MFA and the overseas department would have their underwear stick to their bodies and a strange dryness would appear in their throats and they would start to feel nauseous...

[your1970]

Quote from nordscout

There is a persistent opinion that our MFA and its loud statements and comments on all issues, except for the MFA itself, have long been ignored and, apparently, are not taken seriously, as in the times of the unforgettable A.A. Gromyko... In those distant times, as soon as Andrei Andreyevich slightly frowned, all the European heads of the MFA and the overseas department would have their underwear stick to their bodies and a strange dryness would appear in their throats and they would start to feel nauseous...

Yeah... That's why China fought with the USSR on the borders, and they didn't let Gromyko past the airport.
Socialist (!!!) SFRY, China and Albania - they didn't give a damn about the USSR. What can we say about capitalists?
Otherwise, it’s like, “He raises an eyebrow and everyone falls on their faces...”