Japan protested to Russia

A cape on the coast of the Sea of ​​Okhotsk on Kunashir Island. File photoTOKYO, Feb 7The Japanese government protested to Russia in connection with the upcoming firing in the area of ​​the Kuril Islands, said during a press conference, Secretary General of the Japanese Cabinet of Ministers Hirokazu Matsuno. with this, we protested to Russia through diplomatic channels. The strengthening of Russia's military presence in the northern territories (as the southern islands of the Kuril ridge are called in Japan — ed.) is unacceptable and contradicts the position of the government (by territories — ed.),» he emphasized. the Japanese security guard has issued a warning about the possible danger of maritime navigation in the designated area.In Japan, the initiative on the tax regime in the Kuril Islands was condemnedRelations between Russia and Japan have been overshadowed by the absence of a peace treaty for many years. In 1956, the USSR and Japan signed a Joint Declaration, in which Moscow agreed to consider the possibility of transferring Habomai and Shikotan to Japan after the conclusion of a peace treaty, and the fate of Kunashir and Iturup was not affected. The USSR hoped that the Joint Declaration would put an end to the dispute, while Japan considered the document only part of the solution to the problem, without abandoning claims to all the islands. Subsequent negotiations led to nothing, the peace treaty at the end of World War II was never signed. There is a point of view that serious opposition arose from the United States, which threatened that if Japan agreed to the transfer of only two of the four islands to it, this would affect the process of returning Okinawa to Japanese sovereignty (The Agreement on the Return of Okinawa to Japan entered into force in 1972 — ed.). Moscow's position is that the islands became part of the USSR following the Second World War and the sovereignty of the Russian Federation over them is beyond doubt. In 2018, in Singapore, following a summit meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Shinzo Abe, the Japanese Prime Minister stated that The parties agreed to accelerate the negotiation process on a peace treaty on the basis of the Joint Soviet-Japanese Declaration of 1956. This was a serious concession on the part of Japan, since until now its official position was to demand the return of the four islands, and only after that — the conclusion of a peace treaty. />On Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands began checking the combat readiness of troops