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Ads by Google      ProKarelia However on September 2, 1945, Soviet troops occupied Shikotan and Habomai group, the islands which were geographically and politically not part of the Kuril archipelago. The position of Tokyo was not subject to any major changes although some political parties surprisingly including the Socialist Party and the Communists, demanded not only the return of Kunashiri, Etorofu and the Habomais but all the Kuriles, insisting on the border as of the treaty of St. Petersburg (1875) to remain unchanged. Between October 1956 and the break-up of the USSR in 1991, there were several attempts to resolve the dispute. http://www.prokarelia.net/en?x=article&article_id=600&author=62      Case Study The second claim was that while the treaty acknowledged Etorofu, Kunashir, Shikotan and Habomai Islands to be Japanese territories, Russia could still claim historical rights to them as a result of having first discovered and explored them. In principle, the issue of Habomai and Shikotan Islands has already been resolved by this Declaration. However, these islands, which are so close to Japan that they can be seen with the naked eye from Hokkaido, hardly seem to require any claim of discovery. http://www.american.edu/TED/ice/KURILE.HTM      Kuril Islands dispute - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia However, the claims of the indigenous Ainu people to the islands have gone largely ignored by the powers that be. Japan mantains its claim to the whole of South Kurile Islands. Russian position varies from administration to administration; as of December 2004, it tends to follow the declaration signed by the USSR and Japan in 1956 which stipulated for the disputed group being divided between the two nations, Russia keeping the two northernmost islands and ceding Shikotan and the Habomais to Japan. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuril_Island_conflict      I (Mendl 1990: 179) It was roughly concluded during the Truman administration’s review of its Russian/Soviet policy, however, that while Kunashiri and Etorofu had always been considered part of the Kuriles, the Habomais and Shikotan were not. (Gallicchio 1991: 88-95) This view was confirmed by John Allison, the American Ambassador to Japan, when he informed Japanese officials that the U.S. supported Tokyo’s claims to Habomai and Shikotan but that “it would be legally difficult for the United States to support a Japanese claim to all or part of the Kuriles.” (95) http://www.newpaltz.edu/asianstudies/nycas/2004%20GRAD%20Ryan%20Prize%20Seo-Hyun%20Park.html      The Japan Times Online By the end of 1948, the 17,000 Japanese who had been living on the islands had either fled to Hokkaido or were otherwise evicted. Tokyo argues that its claim over the four Russian-held islands off Hokkaido -- Kunashiri, Etorofu, Shikotan and the Habomai islets -- has a legitimacy dating to this point. Five years later, the United States released a statement supporting Japan's claim over the four islands. http://www.japantimes.com/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20040909f2.htm      Congressional Research Service More importantly, the Japanese have consistently denied any justification for the Soviet seizure of Etorofu, Kunashiri, Shikotan and the Habomais, arguing that these islands had never been part of Russian territory before 1945, and that Shikotan and the Habomais had always been regarded as part of Hokkaido. ____________________________________________________ Appendix (pages 11-15) Map 1 Northern territories/kurils map 2 detail: etorofu, kunashiri, shikotan, and habomais Map 3 south china sea: selected claims map 4 spratly islands dispute map 5 senkaku/diaoyu islands dispute But when the U.S.-Japan Security Agreement was renewed and strengthened in 1960, the Soviets declared that not even those minor islands would be returned unless all U.S. forces were withdrawn from Japan. http://www.fas.org/man/crs/92-7-28.htm      GLOCOM Platform - Debates For as the saying puts it, "diplomats are honest people sent out to lie for their country." What is alarming is the ease with which not just public but intellectual opinion in this country has been mobilized to provide full support for the shaky Foreign Ministry position. This time he was told to demand not just the Habomais and Shikotan but also the unconditional return of Kunashiri and Etorufu as well. But having been forced at San Francisco formally to renounce all these territories, all the conservatives could do by way of a comeback was to note that there was no mention of to whom these territories had been renounced. http://www.glocom.org/debates/20050325_clark_northern/index.html      The Hindu : Talks with Putin could still save Mori The Japan-Russia dispute involves Japan's claims to what it calls the Northern Territories, Etorofu, Kunashiri and Shikotan islands and the Habomai group of islets, that were seized by Soviet troops at the end of World War II. That 1956 document said the Soviet Union would return two of the four islands - Shikotan and the Habomais - after a peace treaty is signed. The then Soviet Union's foreign minister, Mr Andrei Gromyko, rescinded a clause on the return of Shikotan Island and the Habomai islets in 1960, after Japan and the U.S. signed a security treaty. http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/2001/03/25/stories/0325000c.htm      [No title] In 1960 after the Japanese Diet ratified a renewal of the US-Japan security treaty, Moscow declared that it would only hand over Shikotan and Habomais if all foreign troops were withdrawn from Japan, thus effectively rescinding its offer to return two of the four islands in the dispute. Furthermore, concerning the two smaller islands, Shikotan and the Habomais islets, it has been argued that since the 1956 Joint Declaration was ratified by the USSR Supreme Soviet, their return does not require approval by referendum. This would not require a plebiscite and could be implemented by the Russian government should it have the will to do so. http://www.cerc.unimelb.edu.au/bulletin/aug98.htm      Malaysian National News Agency :: BERNAMA But the two leaders did not touch on past developments over the islands, including Putin's recent suggestion that the dispute be settled by returning two of the four islands, a Japanese Foreign Ministry official with access to the talks said. Japan is demanding the return of all the four islands of the Habomais, Shikotan, Kunashiri and Etorofu, located off the nation's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido. The territorial dispute has prevented Japan and Russia from concluding a peace treaty to formally end their wartime hostilities. http://bernama.com/bernama/v3/printable.php?id=104786      Japan Policy & Politics: Japan, Russia to declare 1956 pact in effect The sources said Wednesday that Tokyo believes Monday's agreement will pave the way for negotiations with Moscow on the return of Kunashiri and Etorofu on the assumption that Shikotan and the Habomais will automatically be returned. The Soviet Union seized Shikotan, the Habomais, Kunashiri and Etorofu island at the end of World War II. The Soviet Union unilaterally rescinded it in 1960 when Japan and the United States revised their security pact, saying it would return Shikotan Island and the Habomai group of islets after all foreign military forces withdraw from Japan. http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0XPQ/is_2001_March_26/ai_72698099      The Japan Times Online Soviet troops seized the islands of Kunashiri, Etorofu and Shikotan and the Habomai islets off northeastern Hokkaido in the closing days of World War II. In 2001, then Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori offered a "parallel approach" to discuss the return of the Habomais and Shikotan while negotiating sovereignty of the other two islands. But despite the government's rosy view that bilateral talks might make headway after Russian President Vladimir Putin was easily elected to a second term in March, prospects appear bleak that any of the islands will be returned to Japan anytime soon. http://www.japantimes.com/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20040909f1.htm      The Japan Times Online Ivanov's comments are believed to reflect growing opposition to returning the islands among Russian citizens. The Soviet Union seized the islands near the end of World War II. Ivanov said he "cannot accept" Japan's attempts to negotiate the future of the remaining two islands after realizing the return of Shikotan and the Habomais, a clear signal that Russia would oppose the return of all four islands. http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?np20020315a1.htm      Japan Policy & Politics: Russia denies separating talks on isle issue: report Losyukov again suggested that Russia is prepared to settle the dispute by returning two islands, according to the report. Meanwhile, in reference to a 1956 Japan-Soviet Union joint declaration that states the Habomais and Shikotan Island will be handed over to Japan after a peace treaty is signed, Losyukov called for the need to hold discussions between experts as the understanding by the two countries of the declaration differs, the report said. One of the two frameworks will discuss the conditions for returning the Habomai group of islets and Shikotan Island, while the fate of the other two islands, Kunashiri and Etorofu, will be dealt with under a separate framework, Mori had said. http://findarticles.com/cf_dls/m0XPQ/2001_June_23/76144025/p1/article.jhtml      New America Foundation : article -2106- "The Sick Man of Asia: Russia's Endangered Far East" "The Sick Man of Asia: ... While Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi initially rejected this approach, insisting on the return of all of the islands claimed by Japan, more recently he has referred positively to the 1956 model. Under Yeltsin, Russia acknowledged that there indeed was a dispute over the islands, something that the Soviet leaders were unwilling to do. As Japan's surrender became a certainty, Stalin secured control of the CER and a lease on the Liaodong peninsula--including Port Arthur and nearby Dairen--from Chiang Kai-shek--gains that were soon sacrificed on the altar of proletarian internationalism once the Chinese Communist Party took over China in 1949. http://www.newamerica.net/index.cfm?pg=article&DocID=2106      Khaleej Times - Online Russian officials, however, have been careful to point out that the accord does not mention the future of the other two islands. Following talks between Japanese Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi and her Russian counterpart, Ivan Ivanov, in Tokyo last month, Japanese officials announced that the two governments had agreed to a two-track formula for the return of the Kuril islands, which were seized by the Soviet Union at the end of World War II. In recent years, however, Japan has been insisting that the two-track formula was based on the 1956 Japan-Soviet joint declaration that stipulates Moscow would return Shikotan and the Habomais after concluding a peace treaty with Tokyo. http://www.khaleejtimes.co.ae/ktarchive/230302/editor.htm      Congressional Research Service The documents on this episode can be found in FRUS, 1955- 57, Vol. In the bilateral talks, Moscow had pledged to return Shikotan and the Habomais to Japan after the signing of a formal peace treaty, if Japan renounced claims to Iturup and Kunashir. In 1956, when the U.S.S.R. and Japan were negotiating a bilateral settlement of issues connected to the Second World War, U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles secretly intervened to block a territorial compromise and a possible political rapprochement. http://www.fas.org/man/crs/93-312f.htm      IKIP: Proposal: Rationale & Scope None of the other islands have ever been sampled herpetologically. All have been collected from only a single island (Kunashir) except for one of the frogs ( Rana chensinensis David), which is also known to occur on Shikotan and on Zelionyi and Tanfileva (small islets of the Habomai group). Our efforts will be directed toward building a definitive list of species, but also toward discovering critical habitats used as molting or migratory staging areas. http://artedi.fish.washington.edu/okhotskia/ikip/Proposal/scope.html      Russian president`s Japan visit postponed over disputed islands policy - Kyodo - Gateway To Russia - News From Russia Japan has long called for the return of the islands of Etorofu, Kunashiri and Shikotan and the Habomai islets, all seized by Soviet troops at the end of World War II, that are the subject of the territorial row. The decision was made just before the 14 March presidential election in which Putin won a second four-year term in a landslide victory, the sources said. Moscow "has no new compromise plan yet" to settle the dispute, a Russian diplomatic source said. http://www.gateway2russia.com/st/art_233393.php      Japan Times: Koizumi views disputed isles; Moscow's warnings ignored Over 17,000 Japanese residents fled or were evicted from the islands of Kunashiri, Etorofu and Shikotan, and the Habomai islets when the Soviet Union seized them at the end of World War II. He is the third prime minister to view the disputed islands, following the late Zenko Suzuki in 1981 and Yoshiro Mori in 2001, both of whom viewed them by air. Kaigara is part of the Russian-held Habomai islets. http://202.221.217.59/print/news/nn09-2004/nn20040903a1.htm      THE FINAL CHAPTER OF THE "TIGER LIL"STORY It was the first time since the war that Japan officially claimed the Habomais. In the announcement, Japan also claims sovereignty over the Habomais, a chain of six small Islands now occupied by Soviet troops. The statement will not be delivered to the Soviet Union since Japan has no diplomatic ties with Russia. http://www.b-29s-over-korea.com/Tiger_Lil_FinalChapter/Tiger_Lil_FinalChapter03.html      Japan calls for Kurils hand over Thus, most attendees at the rally were pensioners and members of local branches of political parties, such as United Russia, the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR), the Communist Party and the political bloc ‘Rodina’. The politicians said that the declaration is a legal obligation Russia has inherited from the Soviet Union and the current government is ready to hand over Shikotan and Habomai to Japan. In November 2004, Russian Foreign Affairs Minister Sergei Lavrov and President Vladimir Putin declared that Russia respects the Soviet-Japanese declaration signed in 1956 that envisaged the handover of two of the four disputed islands to Japan following the signing of a peace treaty. http://sakhalinindependent.com/IMAGES/KURILS/northern_territories_day_rally.htm      Lutherans Online Some 17,000 islanders fled or were forced out when the Soviet Union seized the islands of Etorofu, Kunashiri and Shikotan, and the Habomai group of islets at the end of World War II. During the rally, aging former residents of the islands asked the government again to enable them to return during their lifetimes. The rally was the 25th of its kind held on the anniversary of the 1855 Japan-Russia commerce and friendship treaty, which drew a boundary between the countries with the islands in question on the Japanese side. http://aal.stockpoint.com/aal/newspaper2.asp?Mode=treaty&Story=20050207/038x0930.xml&FrameShow=1      Japanese PM Wants Peace Treaty With Russia After Islands Row Solved The four Russia-held islands, Shikotan, Kunashiri, Etorofu and the Habomai islets, were seized by Soviet troops at the end of World War II. Koizumi's statement differs from views of some within the government and the ruling coalition parties that two islands should be returned first. The approach calls for talks on the return to Japan of Shikotan and the Habomais to be conducted separately but simultaneously with discussions on Kunashiri and Etorofu. http://english.people.com.cn/200202/08/print20020208_90122.html      Planned Putin visit eludes amid isle row - Benador Associates Japan and Russia remain at odds over sovereignty of the islands -- Etorofu, Kunashiri and Shikotan, and the Habomai islets -- which Soviet troops seized at the end of World War II. But Putin said in December that for Russia, the dispute concerns only the two smaller islands -- Shikotan and the Habomais -- which Moscow promised in 1956 to return when the two countries conclude a peace treaty. Administrative Vice Foreign Minister Shotaro Yachi admitted there is "a feeling of delay" in work aimed at setting the date for Putin's visit, but said, "We'll continue seeking to realize the visit in the first half of this year." http://www.benadorassociates.com/article/12888      Ex-residents want Russian-held isles back Japanese who used to live on the islands of Shikotan, Kunashiri and Etorofu and the Habomai islets will only accept the total return of the territories from Russia, not just two of the islands as Moscow is proposing, according to Toshio Koizumi, chairman of a group of former islanders. This year marks the 150th anniversary of the Shimoda Treaty, in which the two countries drew their common border between Etorofu Island and Uruppu Island in the Russian Kurils. But Russia watchers are skeptical about whether Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and Russian President Vladimir Putin will be able to make headway on the issue during Putin's visit to Japan, expected possibly in April. http://www.benadorassociates.com/pf.php?id=11881      Skiing & Snowboarding - Kawaguchi, Ivanov agree to promote political dialogue The Soviet Union occupied the islands of Kunashiri, Etorofu and Shikotan and the Habomai group of islets -- all located off Hokkaido -- at the end of World War II. Ivanov praised the work of the Japan-Russia Youth Exchange Committee, an international organization created based on a pact between the two countries to promote exchanges, as ''meaningful,'' according to the official. The 1956 declaration stipulates that Moscow will return Shikotan and the Habomais after concluding a peace treaty with Japan, but fails to mention the future of the other two islands. http://www.skiing-today.com/articles/ski-resort/ski-resort-article-5447.htm      Japan Policy & Politics: Japan, Russia to hold expert-level talks to follow up summit The declaration states that Shikotan and the Habomais will be handed over to Japan after a peace treaty is signed. Tokyo and Moscow remained at odds over the interpretation of the 1956 joint declaration, signed by Japan and the then Soviet Union, during the March 25 summit in the Siberian city of Irkutsk. The Soviet Union rescinded the clause in 1960 after Japan and the United States revised their security treaty. http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0XPQ/is_2001_April_9/ai_73183889      Pacific Fleet - Morskoyo Flota ( Naval Force) The Yalta Agreement specified that the Kurile Islands were to be handed over to the Soviet Union in return for its participation in the war against Japan. The Kurile Islands [known in Japan as the Northern Territories] consist of Shikotan Island and the Habomais islets, as well as two larger islands, Etorofu and Kunashiri. http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/russia/mf-pacific.htm      Session 5 The absence of Kunashiria bivalves on Polonskogo Island (Habomai) is explained by a high concentration of sulphur compounds in water. None of the known species of Kunashiria have any been found on Shikotan, probably because of the absence of stagnant reservoirs. Kunashiria bivalves inhabit Iturup, Kunashir, Zeliony, Tanfileva, Iurii; the find of Kunashiria on Iurii (Habomai) is a new record. http://www.museum.hokudai.ac.jp/activity/symposium/IKIPhomepage/Session%205.html      Asia Cable: Guide to "Insignificant Islands" This dispute involves four islands in the southern chain of the Kuril islands. The first two are fairly substantial islands, and the Russians maintained an air base on Etorofu until recently. They include the islands of Etorofu, Kunishiri, Shikotan and the Habomai rocks, collectively known as the “Northern Territories” in Japan. http://asiacable.blogspot.com/2005/04/guide-to-insignificant-islands.html      [No title] That proposal went: "In return for demarcating the national border between the Etorofu and Urup islands, provisional administrative rights over the four northern islands (including the Habomais and Shikotan Island) will be granted." Russia's current statement was taken from the Kawana proposal. Japan expects the President to be setting the stage for a "political decision," but considering the domestic situation in Russia, no one can tell what will happen next. http://www.usc.edu/isd/archives/dsjp/summaries/1999/June/SM990603.doc      Russia Wants Back Tsarist Gold Worth Billions Japan has never recognized the Soviet Union's takeover of the entire Kurile Island chain of which the southernmost group-- Etorofu, Kunashiri, Shikotan and the Habomais-- were historically never part. Nor have they recognized the Soviet takeover of the southern half of Sakahlin (which the Japanese call Karafuto), a spoil from their victory in the Russo-Japanese War. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/1124273/posts      Asian Economic News: Kawaguchi says Ivanov agreed on 2-track talks on isle row In October in Shanghai, Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and Russian President Vladimir Putin were reported to have reached an agreement in principle to use the approach in resolving the bilateral row, which concerns four islands off Hokkaido that Soviet troops seized after Japan surrendered in World War II. According to a Japanese official, Kawaguchi and Ivanov agreed during their talks Saturday to use the two-track formula to advance discussions on the territorial row, which is blocking the conclusion of a post-World War II peace treaty. The approach calls for dialogue on the return of Shikotan Island and the Habomai group of islets, the smaller of the Russian-held islands, to take place separately but simultaneously with talks on the fate of the two remaining islands, Kunashiri and Etorofu. http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0WDP/is_2002_Feb_11/ai_84260408      Kyodo World News Service : Kelp 6 3 0126 Boats set off for kelp harvest near Russian held island @ HighBeam Research The Habomais, Kunashiri, Shikotan and Etorofu islands off Hokkaido for waters around Kaigarajima island, one of the Russian-held Habomai A flotilla of 333 Japanese fishing boats set off from Nemuro, Hokkaido, http://static.elibrary.com/k/kyodoworldnewsservice/june032002/kelp630126boatssetoffforkelpharvestnearrussianheld/index.html      JPRI Working Paper No. 86 The Japanese government and MOFA at first professed themselves to be shocked by Suzuki’s plans, although MOFA officials have since admitted that the so-called “parallel negotiations” approach to the Northern Territories issue was part of official government policy long before Suzuki took a hand in Japanese-Russian relations. http://www.jpri.org/publications/workingpapers/wp86.html      BBC News ASIA-PACIFIC Japan holds firm on Kuril islands But Japanese press reports from Moscow said Mr Ivanov had not agreed to negotiate on that basis. Under the two-track proposal, the two sides would discuss the smaller of the islands, Shikotan and the Habomais, while holding simultaneous but separate talks on the other two, Kunashiri and Etorofu. South Korean fishing boats challenge Japan (31 Jul 01 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/world/asia-pacific/1806481.stm      Untitled Document Because the 1956 agreement is predicated on the conclusion of a peace treaty (which would have to include a resolution of the full territorial issue), however, the two sides are still far from an agreement. 3 At that summit, Putin re-embraced the 1956 agreement by which Russia agreed to return two of the four islands that make up the Northern Territories: Shikotan and the Habomais. http://www.cfr.org/about/mediacenter/bush-putin/fa-legvold.html      Study Abroad Japan 2004 Summer TRIP ITINERARY If we're lucky, we may see Kunashiri or the Habomais, the southern-most of the Kurile Islands, or Northern Territories, which are claimed by Japan but occupied by Russia since 1945. We'll check out the farm silos in Meiji Park before looking for the bus to Cape Nosappu, the easternmost point of Japan. http://www.uwplatt.edu/geography/japan/itinerary2004.html      IKIP: Proposal: Intro The central zone (Lovushki to Simushir) has the poorest vegetation, some of the smaller members consisting of little more than rocky protuberances that support only lichens, mosses, and a few species of bushes. The southern zone (Urup to Kunashir and the Habomais) possesses a relatively rich flora due to warm ocean currents and abundant rainfall; in addition to coniferous and mixed forests of birch and spruce, there are linden, ash, oak, and maple trees in protected pockets. Plants normally associated with more temperate regions make unexpected appearances on the southern Kurils. http://artedi.fish.washington.edu/okhotskia/ikip/Proposal/introd.html      Intoroduction of Hokkaido Prefecture Hokkaido consists of one large island, five smaller islands called Risshiri, Rebun, Yagishiri, Teuri and Okushiri, and islands which make up the Northern Territories -- Kunashiri, Etorofu, Shikotan and the Habomais. It has an area of 83,450 sq.km., which is 22% of the total land area of Japan. It was a place where the aborigines known as the Ainu lived. http://optphys.sci.hokudai.ac.jp/hpsp9/hokkaido.html      JAPAN ECHO - THE CHALLENGE FACING KOIZUMI Vol. 29 No. 3 Russia rejects Japan's proposal for a "two-track" approach, meaning one set of negotiations concerning the return of the Habomais and Shikotan and a separate set of talks on the status of the other two disputed islands. After the meeting, Japan announces it will give up this approach. http://www.japanecho.co.jp/sum/2002/290302.html      SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Soviet Union In the first declaration, which was ratified by both governments, the Soviet Union agreed to return the Habomai islets and Shikotan island to Japan upon conclusion of a peace treaty. In the second, both sides acknowledged that Kunashiri and Etorofu islands were also in dispute. POINT OF VIEW/Tsuneo Akaha and Anna Vassilieva: Lessons for improved Japan-Russia relations Jun 20, 2005 http://history.surfwax.com/files/Soviet_Union.html

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