After the Olympics, Japan wanted the Southern Kuriles
The theme of Tokyo's victory in the struggle for the right to host the summer Olympics in 2020 has received an unexpected development the other day. In a strange way, representatives of the Japanese leadership saw in the assignment of Tokyo the title of Olympic capital 2020 the need to develop their success in the South Kuril direction. Thus, the Secretary General of the Rigant Sun of the Liberal Democratic Party, Shigeru Ishiba, while visiting the Nemuro village on the island of Hokkaido, did not deny himself the nostalgic pleasure of admiring the beauties of the four Russian islands of the South Kuril Ridge: Iturup, Kunashir, Shikot, Shikot, Shikot. After admiring, Mr. Ishiba called on the Japanese, like the well-coordinated work in the Olympic direction, to intensify the work in the country that would lead to Japan, quoting: "the islands that were once lost by it". The message was similar to the following: today we received the right to hold the Olympic Games in 2020, and tomorrow, with the same pressure, we will get back the Kuriles ...
Apparently, the feeling of deep and unsubstantiated, neither by international law nor by realities, did the sense of Japanese territorial “patriotism” crawl over Ishiba over the edge, and he decided to transfer it to his other compatriots.
It is noteworthy that a few days before Shigeru Ishiba’s sayings about the so-called “Kuril problem”, which, frankly speaking, should not be a problem for the Russian side, the conversation was between Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Russian President Vladimir Putin in the framework of bilateral meetings during the G-20 summit. In the next (countless) time, the Japanese prime minister raised the issue of concluding a peace treaty between Japan and the Russian Federation, and, as is known, his conclusion rests on the Southern Kuriles, which the Land of the Rising Sun stubbornly wants to see in its composition. Only at the same time Japan forgets about its status somewhat (the status of a state that lost in World War II), which allows Japanese politicians of different years to constantly exaggerate the “Kuril issue” and at certain points on this topic even achieve political success in their own country. Shinzo Abe is also no exception. For him, talking about the territorial affiliation of the Southern Kuriles and signing a peace treaty with Russia is a kind of political springboard inside the country. After all, Abe has repeatedly celebrated success in the elections to the cabinet of ministers, declaring that he has a “number of thoughts” on the transition of the Southern Kuriles (the so-called Northern Territories) under the wing of Tokyo. Ordinary Japanese (those who are somehow interested in this issue) believed him, parliamentarians too, and Abe, thanks to this, for the second time becomes the Japanese prime minister (by the way that with the update in the highest echelons of power in Japan, too, not everything so simple…)
It should be noted that the talks between Putin and Abe in St. Petersburg on the conclusion of a peace treaty were not spontaneous. A few weeks before the start of the G20 forum, the discussion of preparations for the conclusion of a peace treaty between Russia and Japan was held at the level of deputy foreign ministers.
After the meetings of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs "deputies", and also after the personal meeting of Vladimir Putin and Shinzo Abe, information came from Tokyo that very soon negotiations between Russia and Japan would be held on the possibility of concluding a peace treaty. The format of these negotiations will be as follows: the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Minister of Defense on each side. At the same time, the Japanese side in the press release hints that this is an unprecedented concession on its part: the official Tokyo conducts negotiations in this format exclusively with its allies (for example, Australia or the USA), and therefore Moscow must make retaliatory curtsy ...
The Russian side also confirmed the fact of upcoming negotiations on the possibility of concluding a peace treaty with Japan. Approximately at the beginning of November of this year, the heads of the foreign affairs and military departments of the country, Sergey Lavrov and Sergey Shoigu, will go to the Japanese islands.
No, the fact that it is better to be friends with the neighboring countries than not to be friends - the thesis is obvious. But only every time when it comes to partnership with Japan, for some reason, the Southern Kuriles float to the surface, and at the same time the Japanese (we recall, the Japanese who lost the war) set us some conditions. We don't set, they put ... As they say, not sickly ...
At the same time, every time you catch yourself in a restless thought: what if the Russian leadership takes and trembles ... “Kemskaya volost? Yes, take it ”... And immediately you try to drive this thought away from you, hoping that common sense and service in the interests of your people determine the policy of the Russian authorities, and not promises of dubious“ carrots ”from foreign countries - from the same Japan, as an option…
Restless thoughts appeared even after the term “hikivaki” flashed in the conversation between Russian and Japanese political leaders, which can be translated as “a draw outcome”. I wonder what is meant by this “no one’s outcome”? Maybe Japan’s Russia is South Kuril Islands, and Russia’s Japan, for example, Hokkaido Island ... Or, Japan, together with Russia, does business on our four islands of the South Kuril Ridge, and Russia, together with Japan, on their Ryukyu Islands. Well, as variants of this very "hikivaki" ...
Whatever it was, but the same Lavrov and Shoigu will have to keep the defense from the Japanese “partner” sweetness, which obviously will not imply any retaliatory steps from Japan. Japanese politics in the style of “you are islands to us, and we to you is endless friendship” - well, no, thank you, we will live here in Russia somehow and without a peace treaty ... We lived the same - and nothing ...
The Japanese, judging by the same statements of Shigeru Ishiba in Hokkaido, are going to develop their "Olympic" success and will try to do everything to be in an exceptional gain from the signing of a peace treaty (if, of course, it will be signed in the foreseeable future). If our ministers hold the defense, then they will be honored and praised, if they start to pour in ... But no, we must again drive this worthless thought away from ourselves. Let the joy of our Japanese partners remain at the level of receiving Tokyo the title of Olympic capital of the year 20 ...
Apparently, the feeling of deep and unsubstantiated, neither by international law nor by realities, did the sense of Japanese territorial “patriotism” crawl over Ishiba over the edge, and he decided to transfer it to his other compatriots.
It is noteworthy that a few days before Shigeru Ishiba’s sayings about the so-called “Kuril problem”, which, frankly speaking, should not be a problem for the Russian side, the conversation was between Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Russian President Vladimir Putin in the framework of bilateral meetings during the G-20 summit. In the next (countless) time, the Japanese prime minister raised the issue of concluding a peace treaty between Japan and the Russian Federation, and, as is known, his conclusion rests on the Southern Kuriles, which the Land of the Rising Sun stubbornly wants to see in its composition. Only at the same time Japan forgets about its status somewhat (the status of a state that lost in World War II), which allows Japanese politicians of different years to constantly exaggerate the “Kuril issue” and at certain points on this topic even achieve political success in their own country. Shinzo Abe is also no exception. For him, talking about the territorial affiliation of the Southern Kuriles and signing a peace treaty with Russia is a kind of political springboard inside the country. After all, Abe has repeatedly celebrated success in the elections to the cabinet of ministers, declaring that he has a “number of thoughts” on the transition of the Southern Kuriles (the so-called Northern Territories) under the wing of Tokyo. Ordinary Japanese (those who are somehow interested in this issue) believed him, parliamentarians too, and Abe, thanks to this, for the second time becomes the Japanese prime minister (by the way that with the update in the highest echelons of power in Japan, too, not everything so simple…)
It should be noted that the talks between Putin and Abe in St. Petersburg on the conclusion of a peace treaty were not spontaneous. A few weeks before the start of the G20 forum, the discussion of preparations for the conclusion of a peace treaty between Russia and Japan was held at the level of deputy foreign ministers.
After the meetings of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs "deputies", and also after the personal meeting of Vladimir Putin and Shinzo Abe, information came from Tokyo that very soon negotiations between Russia and Japan would be held on the possibility of concluding a peace treaty. The format of these negotiations will be as follows: the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Minister of Defense on each side. At the same time, the Japanese side in the press release hints that this is an unprecedented concession on its part: the official Tokyo conducts negotiations in this format exclusively with its allies (for example, Australia or the USA), and therefore Moscow must make retaliatory curtsy ...
The Russian side also confirmed the fact of upcoming negotiations on the possibility of concluding a peace treaty with Japan. Approximately at the beginning of November of this year, the heads of the foreign affairs and military departments of the country, Sergey Lavrov and Sergey Shoigu, will go to the Japanese islands.
No, the fact that it is better to be friends with the neighboring countries than not to be friends - the thesis is obvious. But only every time when it comes to partnership with Japan, for some reason, the Southern Kuriles float to the surface, and at the same time the Japanese (we recall, the Japanese who lost the war) set us some conditions. We don't set, they put ... As they say, not sickly ...
At the same time, every time you catch yourself in a restless thought: what if the Russian leadership takes and trembles ... “Kemskaya volost? Yes, take it ”... And immediately you try to drive this thought away from you, hoping that common sense and service in the interests of your people determine the policy of the Russian authorities, and not promises of dubious“ carrots ”from foreign countries - from the same Japan, as an option…
Restless thoughts appeared even after the term “hikivaki” flashed in the conversation between Russian and Japanese political leaders, which can be translated as “a draw outcome”. I wonder what is meant by this “no one’s outcome”? Maybe Japan’s Russia is South Kuril Islands, and Russia’s Japan, for example, Hokkaido Island ... Or, Japan, together with Russia, does business on our four islands of the South Kuril Ridge, and Russia, together with Japan, on their Ryukyu Islands. Well, as variants of this very "hikivaki" ...
Whatever it was, but the same Lavrov and Shoigu will have to keep the defense from the Japanese “partner” sweetness, which obviously will not imply any retaliatory steps from Japan. Japanese politics in the style of “you are islands to us, and we to you is endless friendship” - well, no, thank you, we will live here in Russia somehow and without a peace treaty ... We lived the same - and nothing ...
The Japanese, judging by the same statements of Shigeru Ishiba in Hokkaido, are going to develop their "Olympic" success and will try to do everything to be in an exceptional gain from the signing of a peace treaty (if, of course, it will be signed in the foreseeable future). If our ministers hold the defense, then they will be honored and praised, if they start to pour in ... But no, we must again drive this worthless thought away from ourselves. Let the joy of our Japanese partners remain at the level of receiving Tokyo the title of Olympic capital of the year 20 ...
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