Northern Territories

Northern Territory English Etymology en ja 北方領土. Proper noun p Northern Territories 1 A group of islands administered by Russia, claimed by Japan. en 1993 Harry Gelman Summary Russo-Japanese Relations and the Future of the U.S.-Japanese Alliance https://archive.org/details/russojapaneserel0000gelm/ w:RAND 0-8330-1333-5 93-3079 27678754 vii https://archive.org/details/russojapaneserel0000gelm/page/n8/ The Soviet leaders traditionally saw their occupation of the Northern Territories as legitimized, among other things, by the 1944 Yalta agreement between the USSR and three Western powers. en 2000 Hiroshi Kimura Basic Determinants of Japanese-Soviet Relations Japanese-Russian Relations under Brezhnev and Andropov https://archive.org/details/japaneserussianr0000kimu/ w:M.E. Sharpe 0-7656-0585-6 99-086081 519991741 12 https://archive.org/details/japaneserussianr0000kimu/page/12/ The Soviet Union apparently took the U.S.— Japanese political-military alliance quite seriously—probably more seriously than we might imagine. The Soviet Union’s reluctance to return the Northern Territories to Japan, even at the expense of the bilateral relationship, is ascribable to the global confrontation between the USSR and the United States. en 2000 Alexei V. Zagorksy Reconciliation in the Fifties: The Logic of Soviet Decision Making w:Gilbert Rozman Japan and Russia: The Tortuous Path to Normalization, 1949-1999 https://archive.org/details/japanrussiatortu0000unse/ New York w:St. Martin's Press 0-312-22877-5 99-047763 42454244 59 https://archive.org/details/japanrussiatortu0000unse/page/59/ It was the USSR that was first to drop the idea to gain Japanese recognition of its rights over the territories renounced by Japan at San Francisco, and to propose the transfer of Shikotan and Habomai, precisely in line with what was advocated by the Japanese representative at the time of the signing of the San Francisco treaty, i.e., recognition of Kunashiri and Etorofu as a part of the Kuriles renounced by Japan, but strong insistence on Habomai and Shikotan being part of Hokkaido, and therefore referred to at that time as the Northern Territories (hoppo ryodo) separate from North and South Chishima. en 2001/2002 Overview of the Issue of the Northern Territories https://web.archive.org/web/20020610201806/https://www.mofa.go.jp/region/europe/russia/territory/overview.html 10 June 2002 w:Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan (1) The Northern Territories consists of four islands located off the northeast coast of the Nemuro Peninsula of Hokkaido. They are: Habomai, Shikotan, Kunashiri and Etorofu. en SEPTEMBER 7, 2017 Russian and Japanese leaders 'decisively condemn' North Korean tests https://web.archive.org/web/20170907190715/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-missiles-russia-japan/russian-and-japanese-leaders-decisively-condemn-north-korean-tests-idUSKCN1BI1FL 07 September 2017 w:Reuters World News The islands, called the Northern Territories in Japan and the Southern Kuriles in Russia, were seized by Soviet forces at the end of World War Two, when 17,000 Japanese residents were forced to flee. en Translations islands Japanese: ja 北方領土 Polish: pl Wyspy Kurylskie nv-p, pl Kuryle nv-p See also Kuril Islands Further reading Northern Territories en Japan Places in Russia