Japan and Russia's Relationship With Russia

Japan and russia have a long history, which includes a direct war of their own. Japan stood apart from other partners in the west and in the g seven in terms how it dealt with russia. Even after two thousand 14, even after the annexation of crimea, japan was hesitant to impose harsh sanctions. More recently, there's been a big effort in in Japans to try to maintain at least a functional relationship with r Russia. In this territorial dispute, you're talking about concerns four islands that are just off the north east coast of hokaido,. That were controlled by japan until the end of world war to, but now under russian station.