Citations:Northern Territories

English citations of Northern Territories

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• 1993, Harry Gelman, “Summary”, in Russo-Japanese Relations and the Future of the U.S.-Japanese Alliance‎^[1], RAND, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page vii:

  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.

• 2000, Hiroshi Kimura, “Basic Determinants of Japanese-Soviet Relations”, in Japanese-Russian Relations under Brezhnev and Andropov‎^[2], M.E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, 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.

• 2000, Alexei V. Zagorksy, “Reconciliation in the Fifties: The Logic of Soviet Decision Making”, in Gilbert Rozman, editor, Japan and Russia: The Tortuous Path to Normalization, 1949-1999‎^[3], New York: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, 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.

• 2001/2002, “Overview of the Issue of the Northern Territories”, in Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan‎^[4], archived from the original on 10 June 2002‎^[5]:

  (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.

• 2008 [2005], Hiroshi Kimura, “Waking Up to the Concept of National Borders”, in Mark Ealey, transl., The Kurillian Knot: A History of Japanese-Russian Border Negotiations‎^[6], Stanford, Cali.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1:

  In the Northern Territories (which the Russians call the Southern Kuriles), mist and fog are indivisible.

• 2015 February 1, Sumio (草賀純男) Kusaka, “Japan and Its Territorial Claims”, in The New York Times‎^[7], archived from the original on 03 March 2015, Opinion Letters‎^[8]:

  That both Takeshima and the Northern Territories are inherent territories of Japan is well documented. A United States National Archives document shows that Takeshima was confirmed as part of Japan. United States government documents also confirm that the Northern Territories are a part of Japan’s territory and are not included in the Kuril Islands, all rights, title and claims to which Japan renounced under the 1951 peace treaty.

• 2017 September 7, “Russian and Japanese leaders 'decisively condemn' North Korean tests”, in Reuters‎^[9], archived from the original on 07 September 2017, World News‎^[10]:

  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.

• 2021 July 26, Daria Litvinova, “Russian PM visits Pacific islands claimed by Japan”, in AP News‎^[11], archived from the original on 26 July 2021‎^[12]:

  Japan asserts territorial rights to the islands it calls the Northern Territories. The Soviet Union took them in the final days of World War II, and the dispute has kept the countries from signing a peace treaty formally ending their hostilities.

• 2023 July 31, Julian Ryall, “Could China take Kuril islands claimed by Japan and Russia?”, in Deutsche Welle‎^[13], archived from the original on 31 July 2023‎^[14]:

  Yakov Zinberg, a professor of international relations at Tokyo's Kokushikan University, says that despite Japan's ambitions for the Northern Territories, Chinese action to secure the Russian Far East "is a far more realistic possibility."