TASS/. Shikotan Island, part of the Kuril archipelago, and a group of small islands of Habomai should be demilitarized in case of their handover to Tokyo, which needs to provide guarantees that US ...

They are from Shikotan Island in the Northern Territories. A framework for visa-free visits was agreed in 1992 to build mutual understanding between Russians living on the four islands and Japanese.

The plan is to commit to paper possible transference of Shikotan and the Habomai islands to Japan, the agency reports TOKYO, January 20. /TASS/. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has got down to ...

The agreement states that the islands of Habomai and Shikotan are to be handed over to Japan upon the conclusion of a peace treaty between the two countries. Japan says there is no change to its ...