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 | | The overall view of the major landslide formation near Malokurilskoe, Shikotan Island, formed as a result of ground shaking during the October 4, 1994, earthquake. | | | A huge ground crack near Krabosavodskoe, Shikotan Island, formed during the October 4, 1994, earthquake. | | | Shikotan, Kuril Islands Earthquake & Tsunami October 4, 1994 Set 1 |
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http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/seg/hazard/slideset/37/37_thumbs.shtml
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| | Kommersant: A Dispute between Neighbors |
| | The document noted that this agreement was directed against the USSR and China and the Soviet government “cannot promote the expansion of the territory used by foreign troops by transferring the islands of Shikotan and Habomai to Japan”. | | | Tokyo now claims that Iturup, Shikotan, Kunashir, and Habomai are not part of the Kurile Islands and that Japan did not give them up. | | | On the same day, the Council of Ministers of the USSR refused to consider the question of transferring the two islands, alleging that they might be used to station American forces. |
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http://www.kommersant.com/page.asp?id=524760
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| | South Kuriles/Northern Territories: A Stumbling-block in Russia-Japan Relations |
| | However on 2 September 1945 Soviet troops occupied Shikotan and Habomai group, the islands that both geographically and politically were not part of Kuril archipelago. | | | Between October 1956 and the break-up of the USSR in 1991, there were several attempts to resolve the dispute. | | | However on 10 August 1956 Khruschev offered Japan Shikotan and the Habomais as the "final Soviet offer" in return for dropping all claims to Kunashiri and Etorofu (see the map on next page). |
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| | Earthquake and Tsunami of October 4, 1994 IN THE KURIL ISLANDS - Dr. George Pararas-Carayannis |
| | The Shikotan, Kuril Islands Earthquake of October 4, 1994 | | | The Shikotan, 1994 earthquake experiment on the islands. | | | Levin B.W., Kulikov E.A., Gusiakov V.K., Pelinovsky E.N., Ivaschenko A.I., Kaistrenko V.M. The Great Shikotan Earthquake of October 4, 1944 accompanying by devastating tsunami and seaquake: the preliminary analysis |
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| | Japan Policy & Politics: Hokkaido had development plans for Shikotan, Habomai islets |
| | A total of 467 people live in Shikotan Island as of March 2001, according to the Japanese government. | | | Moscow unilaterally told Japan in a 1960 memorandum that it will return the two on the condition that foreign troops withdrew from Japan, an apparent protest against the revision the same year of the Japan-U.S. security treaty. | | | The plans, obtained Monday by Kyodo News, were kept at the Archives of Hokkaido. |
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| | 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. |
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http://www.american.edu/projects/mandala/TED/ice/kurile.htm
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| | Kuril Island Conflict Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography |
| | However, the claims of the indigenous Ainu people to the islands have gone largely ignored by the Powers. | | | 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. |
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http://www.variedtastes.com/encyclopedia/Kuril_Island_conflict
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| | Asia Times Online - The trusted news source for information on Japan |
| | Last Monday Putin offered Koizumi hard choices for ending this territorial dispute by suggesting the return of the smaller Shikotan island, and the uninhabited Habomai group of islets. | | | Based on this secret agreement, the USSR even claimed to retain the northern part of Hokkaido, although the US rejected that idea bluntly. | | | At the conference, Japan renounced the "Kuril Islands", excluding Etorofu, Kunashiri, Shikotan, or Habomai islands, which Japan claimed had always been Japanese territories and wished to claim them after the war. |
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| | The Hindu : Russia firm on disputed isles |
| | At the same time, reference to all the four islands claimed by Japan in the joint statement should sustain Tokyo's hope of having its way in the long run. | | | Section : International Previous : Foot-and-mouth: Blair in command of crisis control Next : Arab summit to focus on Iraq sanctions | | | Mori after the talks, the Russian leader said the 1956 declaration ``did not specify the terms on which the (two) islands were to be returned''. |
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http://www.hinduonnet.com/2001/03/26/stories/0326000d.htm
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| | Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman on results of Russian-Japanese meeting in Irkutsk |
| | First of all, we consider it necessary to point out that in Russian diplomatic practice it is not customary to allow leaks into the press of information on confidential top-level talks and comment publicly on their content. | | | Please comment on media reports of an allegedly expressed Russian willingness to fulfill the provision of the 1956 USSR-Japan Joint Declaration on the handing over of Shikotan and Habomai Islands to Japan. | | | Yet the reality is such that the sides interpret differently the 1956 Joint Declaration provision concerning the fate of Shikotan and Habomai Islands. |
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http://russia.shaps.hawaii.edu/fp/russia/rmfa_20010411.html
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| | ZNet Japan Japan-Russia Dispute Over Northern Territories Highlights Flawed Diplomacy |
| | 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 Etorofu 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. |
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| | CNN.com - Russian, Japanese officials to meet over Kurils, Korea - October 4, 2000 |
| | Tokyo claimed the islands -- Etorofu, Kunashiri, Shikotan and the Habomai islets -- in a treaty with Russia in 1875. | | | In the 1956 declaration, the Soviets declared a willingness to hand over Shikotan and Habomai after the signing of a peace treaty, ITAR-Tass said. | | | Disagreement over the islands, controlled by Russia but claimed by Japan, has kept Tokyo and Moscow from signing a treaty officially ending World War II. |
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http://archives.cnn.com/2000/ASIANOW/east/10/04/russia.japan.ap
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| | Shikotan |
| | Although this island is a part of Russia, Japan maintains a claim to it along with the other three islands (see Kuril Island conflict). | | | Shikotan (色丹島) (Shikotan in Japanese, Шикотан in Russian), one of the bigger islands of the Kuril Islands, located in the Sakhalin Oblast of Russia. | | | The total land area of Shikotan is 182 sq km. |
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| | The Jamestown Foundation |
| | In an apparent effort to placate nationalist sentiment at home, however, Koizumi and his foreign minister, Makiko Tanaka, began almost immediately after the Putin-Koizumi talks to insist that the Shanghai proposal did not in fact represent any weakening in Tokyo's insistence that all four islands be returned to Japan. | | | Koizumi rejected that approach upon his accession to the prime minister post earlier this year, however, insisting instead that talks had to proceed on the basis of a Russian recognition that all four islands should be returned. | | | Koizumi's proposal appears to represent in part a return to the negotiation position adopted by his predecessor, former Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, during a summit meeting with Putin in Irkutsk this past spring. |
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| | Japan open to return of two disputed isles |
| | Participants included former Prime Minister Tsutomu Hata, who visited Shikotan Island and the Habomai group of islets in late August. | | | The islands were seized by Soviet troops at the end of World War II. | | | The dispute—involving the islands of Etorofu, Kunashiri and Shikotan and the Habomai group of islets—has prevented the two countries from concluding a peace treaty, meaning they are still technically in a state of war. |
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| | Interfax > Politics |
| | The strongest tremors were reported in Malokurilskoye in Shikotan island. | | | Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk seismological station told Interfax on Tuesday that the earthquake recorded at 7:40 p.m. | | | had its epicenter 80 kilometers northeast of Shikotan where its magnitude reached 4.1 points. |
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http://www.interfax.ru/e/B/0/28.html?id_issue=10747384
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| | As early as 1956, it hinted at the possibility of considering the return of the Habomai Islands and Shikotan if Japan abandoned its alliance with the United States. | | | The Soviet Union emphasized that it would not return all the islands because of Soviet public opposition and the possible reawakening of other countries' territorial claims against the Soviet Union. | | | In 1960 the Soviet government warned Japan against signing the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security with the United States, and after the treaty was signed, declared that it would not hand over the Habomai Islands and Shikotan under any circumstances unless Japan abrogated the treaty forthwith. |
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| | The Jamestown Foundation |
| | Mori said that the frameworks agreement had been reached during talks in early April between a head of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's European Affairs Bureau, Kazuhiko Togo, and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Aleksandr Losyukov. | | | The latest diplomatic clash between Moscow and Tokyo--and between Koizumi and his political opponents--began on May 13 when Mori claimed that Russia and Japan had agreed during talks in early April to set up what Japanese reports called two "frameworks" for discussion of the islands dispute. | | | The talks followed shortly after the Putin-Mori meeting in Irkutsk, where Mori had reportedly proposed to Putin that the two countries conduct discussions on the return of Shikotan and the Habomai, as well as Kunashir and Iturup, on a parallel basis. |
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| | Pravda.RU Russian Premier Orders Privileges To Japanese Nationals To Visit Kurils |
| | It will be valid for Shikotan, August 3 into 6, and Tanfilyev, September 7 into 10, this year, reports the Russian government information board. | | | A documentary collection on, "The Polish Underground in Western Ukraine and Western Byelorussia: 1939-41", fresh from the printers, was introduced to the public in Poland's capital. | | | Frontier and customs checkpoints will be established for the purpose in Krabozavodskoye, Shikotan, and in Tanfilyev island of the Sakhalin Region. |
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| | Forums - Putin Says Japan Can Take Back 2 Islands |
| | Japan has rejected the compromise and insisted that all four islands be handed over. | | | Kunadze added that Habomai is an uninhabited group of islands and Shikotan has a fish cannery and a border outpost. | | | Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi stated that he cannot agree to the return of just two of the islands seized by the Soviet Union in 1945. |
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| | RUSNET :: CIS Today :: 2005/03/18 :: Russia-Japan thaw not in sight |
| | The landmark document states that a peace treaty will be concluded after the sovereignty claims to all these islands are settled in light of historical and legal facts, on the basis of the documents agreed to between the two countries, and according to the principle of law and justice. | | | The Russian president described the Japanese demand for all four islands as "incomprehensible," citing the 1956 declaration in which the Soviet Union agreed to return Habomai and Shikotan after a peace treaty was concluded. | | | Putin's "new" position contradicts the Irkutsk Declaration, which clearly states that the settlement of all territorial claims under the Tokyo Declaration is an essential condition for the signing of a peace treaty. |
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| | Insight on the News: Russian emigrants tread water off Japanese bay - Russian inhabitants of Kuril Islands |
| | Last April, in the first local democratic vote, a pro-Japanese activist named Mikhail Lukyanov, long known as a dissident and head of a pro-Japanese organization called the Society of Countrymen, won a seat on the island's council. | | | This year, the sense of hopelessness led to the previously unthinkable. | | | Not surprisingly, the highly unpopular local nomenklatura, which is widely derided as greedy corrupt and uncaring, is opposed to any giveback. |
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| | The summary of October 4, 1994 Shikotan earthquake and tsunami | | | Remarkable effects of the earthquake to note were the formations of many large gaping fissures and landslides evidently due to very strong ground shaking. | | | On Shikotan Island, one of the South Kuril Islands, located closest to the earthquake epicenter, ground shaking was extremely intense: the intensity was reported to be between 9 and 10 on the abridged Modified Mercalli Intensity Scale. |
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| | KURIA MURIA - LoveToKnow Article on KURIA MURIA |
| | The three southern islands, Kunashiri, Etorofu, and Shikotan, are believed to have belonged to Japan from a remote date, but at the beginning of the 18th century the Russians, having conquered Kamchatka, found their way to the northern part of the Kuriles in pursuit of fur-bearing animals, with which the islands then abounded. | | | m.; their total number is 32, and the names of the eight principal islands, counting from the south, are Kunashiri, Shikotan, Etorofu (generally called Etorop, and known formerly to Europe as Staten Island), Urup, Simusir, Onnekotan, Paramoshiri (Paramusir) and Shumshiri. | | | The island of Shikotan is remarkable for the growth of a species of bamboo (called Shikotan-chiku), having dark brown spots on the cane. |
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| | Vladivostok News — Sakhalin |
| | This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed in any form. | | | The dispute over the ownership of the Kuril Islands recently received an unexpected twist as residents of the Shikotan Island started gathering signatures to lease Shikotan Island to Japan for 99 years. |
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| | Getting Through Customs |
| | C. The Kuril Islands, which are made up of Etorofu, Kunashiri, Shikotan, and the Habomai group, were occupied by the former Soviet Union in 1945 and are still a matter of international dispute. | | | D. Belize, which used to be known as British Honduras. |
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| | Japan & Russia, Koizumi & Putin, Action Plan - Johnson's Russia List 1-6-03 |
| | Long claimed by both Japan and Russia, the islands were seized by Soviet troops at the end of World War II. | | | The disputed islands are Etorofu, Kunashiri and Shikotan as well as the Habomai islet group, all off Hokkaido, Japan's main northern island. | | | The action plan is expected to cover the need for reactivating bilateral political dialogue, making efforts to conclude a peace treaty, fostering cooperation in the international arena, strengthening economic cooperation and boosting human and cultural exchanges. |
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| | Larix gmelinii var. japonica description |
| | Russia: Sakhalin and Kuril Islands [Iturup Island, also a few dwarf trees on Shikotan Island (2)] (1). | | | Extremely rare dwarf form, Shikotan, Kurile Islands (Abies sakhalinensis in the background) [Vladimir Dinets] (3). |
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| | history of the Northern Territories |
| | In 1880, village offices were established on the islands of Shikotan, Kunashiri and Etorofu under the new administrative system. | | | It states that the islands of Habomai and Shikotan would be transferred to Japan after the conclusion of a peace treaty.@The Soviet Union, however, changed its position after that, and insisted that there was no territorial issue between Japan and the Soviet Union or that it was already solved. | | | Because the new Meiji government could not sufficiently cope with Russians moving south in Sakhalin, the Treaty for the Exchange of Sakhalin for the Kuril Islands was concluded in 1875 and 18 islands north of Uruppu which had belonged to Russia were transferred to Japan. |
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| | The four islands -- Shikotan, Etorofu, Kunashiri, and the Habomai group of islets -- were captured by Soviet troops at the end of World War II and are the source of dispute between Japan and Russia. | | | The two governors also issued a joint statement saying the two areas will jointly study economic development in four Russian-held islands off Hokkaido. | | | In the development of the Sakhalin continental shelf, the four areas will co-operate in a project to drill for natural gas and crude oil, with commercial production expected to commence in 1999, according to project sources. |
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| | JRL 4-3-02 - Russia, Japan, Territorial Dispute |
| | The question of sovereignty over Kunashiri and Etorofu would be "blurred" and deferred for later talks. | | | This concession, however, provoked a storm of opposition from Japanese who feared that Japan would never get the other two islands back, and when Koizumi replaced Mori as prime minister in April 2001 he withdrew the concession. | | | Putin renewed the offer made by Khrushchev in 1956 to return the two small islands closest to Japan (Shikotan and Habomai) in the context of a peace treaty, while Japan agreed to exclude the other two islands (Kunashiri and Etorofu) from the agenda in the first stage of negotiations. |
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| | Hokkaido Prefecture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Chishima (千島国) (originally the islands of Kunashiri and Etorofu, later included Shikotan and the Kuril Islands | | | Hanasaki (花咲郡) (dissolved April 1, 1959 when Habomai Village was merged into Nemuro City; originally included Shikotan District) | | | Shikotan (色丹郡) (split off of Hanasaki District in 1885; currently occupied and administered by Russia) |
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| | Kommersant: Vladimir Putin Being Invited to View the Cherry Blossoms |
| | Machimura once more declared that Japan had sovereignty over all the disputed islands (Iturup, Kunashir, Shikotan, and Habomai). | | | But only in the form of a final concession and only after the signing of a peace treaty. | | | At a press conference following the talks, the Japanese minister disputed Moscow's assertions that Tokyo had agreed only on Shikotan and Habomai back in 1956 once it signed the joint declaration and ratified it. |
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| | AGP, Volume 47, Number 3-4, 1997 |
| | Maastrichtian ammonites and biostratigraphy of the Sakhalin and the Shikotan Islands, Far Eastern Russia | | | ABSTRACT: Stratigraphy, ammonite paleontology, and regional characteristics are presented from the Maastrichtian deposits of the Sakhalin and the Shikotan Islands, Far Eastern Russia. | | | Two different ammonite biostratigraphic zonal schemes based on the representatives of the family Desmocerataceae and the Tetragonitaceae, respectively, are established and their correlation with the Japanese ammonite zonation is suggested. |
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| | Luzhkov, who is the chairman of the Russian part of the Russian- Japanese Council of Wise Men, said in an article published in the Thursday issue of Izvestia, "We believe the declaration finally outlined the maximum possible concessions that Russia could make to Japan. | | | On the other hand, Tokyo interprets it as if the promise [about handing over] Habomai and Shikotan was interim and is also eyeing Kunashir and Iturup." | | | Nov 25 (Interfax) - Moscow is surprised by Tokyo's interpretation of the 1956 declaration, which envisions that Habomai and Shikotan Islands being handed over to Japan, as an interim rather than the final solution to the territorial dispute, said Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov. |
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| | Print Version The Sakhalin Times™ on the WWW |
| | Japan has completely rejected the offer of Shikotan and Habomai. | | | Last week’s rally against the proposed handover of Shikotan and Habomai to Japan was one of the largest shows of unity and solidarity that Sakhalin has ever witnessed. | | | Russia and Japan are both eager to sign a World War 2 peace treaty before they celebrate 150 years of diplomatic relations. |
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| | www2.hawaii.edu/~hughesm/policy.htm |
| | Another issue that is an international issue, dealing with Russia, S. Korea, China, Taiwan, and us, are the islands of Etorofu, Kunahsiri, Shikotan and the Habomai group. |
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| | Sight: Time & Place |
| | For several years I was traveling about the Far East, especially around Shikotan Island. | | | Usually I was traveling to remote places far from the populated area. | | | I am a post graduate student of the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry and Petrochemistry of Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences. |
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| | Tsunami Program--Short-Term Forecasts - 1994 Shikotan Tsunami |
| | A tsunami was generated in the North Pacific Ocean by the great 4 October 1994 earthquake near Shikotan Island, which lies northeast of Japan. | | | This remotely-generated teletsunami produced a variety of tsunami amplitudes and temporal patterns in U.S. waters. | | | The model tsunami generally matches the observed amplitude and temporal pattern at the WC61 site. |
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| | Homepage of Vladimir Dinets-Birds of RFE part 2 |
| | Southern part of Kunashir and Shikotan Island have particularly high biodiversity level. | | | The Kuril Islands are one of the most beautiful parts of our planet, their natural wonders could be a great tourist attraction. | | | Unfortunately, these two islands will probably be the first to be re-colonized and intensely developed by the Japanese. |
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| | Kurilsky, Islands and Sea, an excerpt from Russian Conservation News #18 |
| | Throughout the centuries the islands have remained primarily intact and today certain sections are preserved in Kurilsky Zapovednik. | | | To this day, all the major Kurile Islands have preserved the names given them by the Ainu people. | | | The Zapovednik's territory also encompasses the Maliye Kuriley Zakaznik (special purpose preserve), located on Shikotan Island and on several large islands of the Small Kurile Chain. |
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| | The Hindu : Japan, Russia to go Dutch |
| | In 1956, during the establishment of diplomatic relations, Japan and Russia signed the Moscow Declaration. | | | Hashimoto, replacing Japan's all or nothing stance with a give and take policy, set the tone for a long process of retrieving the lost land (four islands) in perhaps 20 years, based on land for money. | | | It calls for Russia returning Habomai and Shikotan when the peace treaty is signed. |
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| | NAPSNet Daily Report, Wednesday, September 13, 2000 |
| | Li allegedly went to Russia to personally make sure that there had been no changes in Sino- Russian relations after Vladimir Putin became the RF President and that both countries remained "strategic partners." Li is to meet former RF President Boris Yeltsin and then RF President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday. | | | Mori reportedly agreed to leave Shikotan and Habomai under RF governance, if RF recognized Japanese sovereignty over them. | | | Foreign ministries of both RF and Japan simultaneously denied the reports. |
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| | Red-carpet treatment / Japan tries hospitality in bid to reclaim Kurils |
| | Yoichi Nakano, chief of the secretariat of the Hokkaido Commission for Developing Relations with the Northern Islands, says the hospitality program is important since the Russian government in far-off Moscow refuses to return the islands of Iturup (Etorofu in Japan), Kunashir (Kunashiri), Shikotan and a group of 10 uninhabited islets known as Habomai. | | | Roughly 7,800 people live in the disputed area, known as the Northern Territories. | | | On the rest of the islands, it is always 70 against." |
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| | Tsunami Paper |
| | CASE STUDY OF THE 4 OCTOBER 1994 SHIKOTAN TSUNAMI | | | Detection of incipient sea surface slope changes allowed warning times of 5-7 minutes. | | | Performance was tested using data from the Shikotan tsunami. |
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| | History of the Kuril Islands |
| | So, Iturup, Kunashir, Shikotan and the Haboma Islands off the North of Hokaido were Japanese from 1855's Treaty of Shimoda |
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| | Japan Reacts to the U.S.-Russian Treaty |
| | What is really interesting is the sad tone of these articles, reminiscent of the "list of lost opportunities" vis-à-vis the return of the Northern Territories (the four "objects" – the Habomai island group, Shikotan island, Kunashiri island and Iturup island, respectively). | | | Not surprisingly, the newspaper once again returned to these relations just several days before President Bush's visit to Russia and the signing of important agreements. | | | Japan rejected this proposal: Japan wanted "all four 'objects' back and peace agreement only after it." |
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/700313/posts
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| | Irkutsk Statement by the Prime Minister of Japan and the President of the Russian Federation on the Continuation of ... |
| | - Confirmed to continue cooperation surrounding the islands of Etorofu, Kunashiri, Shikotan and Habomai aimed at improving the environment for the early conclusion of a peace treaty; | | | - Based on this confirmation, agreed to promote future negotiations to accomplish complete normalization of Japan-Russia relations by means of concluding a peace treaty through the solution of issues concerning the attribution of the islands of Etorofu, Kunashiri, Shikotan and Habomai, on the basis of the 1993 Tokyo Declaration on Japan-Russia Relations; |
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http://russia.shaps.hawaii.edu/fp/japan/r-j-s_20010325.html
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| | NEAR Earthquakes & Tsunamis |
| | Results: 7 small fishing vessells and some boats were threw up the coast. | | | In Shikotan Is. vertical run-ups are as follows: Tserkovnaya Bay 16.6 m, Malokurilskaya Bay - 3.7 m, Krabovaya Bay - 3.4 m. |
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http://www.science.sakhalin.ru/Tsunami/Near.htm
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