Japan Wants to Sign a Peace Treaty With Russia After 70 Years

[Parul]

5, 2013, in St. Petersburg
The two nations never got around to it at the end of World War II
Shinzo Abe, the Japanese Prime Minister, has said that Tokyo would like to sign a peace treaty with Moscow.

The two powers ceased hostilities at the end of World War II but did not formally conclude a peace pact because of territorial disputes over the Kuril Islands, which Japan refers to as its Northern Territories, the BBC reports.

Addressing reporters in Tokyo, Abe said that he and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed that the lack of a formal treaty was “abnormal” and called for a summit.

“Without a summit meeting, this Northern Territories problem cannot be resolved,” he said, according to the BBC.

5, 2013, in St. Petersburg The two nations never got around to it at the end of World War II Shinzo Abe, the Japanese Prime Minister, has said that Tokyo would like to sign a peace treaty with Moscow. The two powers ceased hostilities at the end of World War II but did not formally conclude a peace pact because of territorial disputes over the Kuril Islands, which Japan refers to as its Northern Territories, the BBC reports. Addressing reporters in Tokyo, Abe said that he and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed that the lack of a formal treaty was “abnormal” and called for a summit. “Without a summit meeting, this Northern Territories problem cannot be resolved,” he said, according to the BBC.

Japan Wants to Sign a Peace Treaty With Russia

 

[Aepsilons]

It is long overdue, i think.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

It is long overdue, i think.

Wait...when did Japan declare war on Russia? is this about that 2 or 3 week skirmish that started on the day of the Nagasaki bombing...and then the island stealing ?

 

[nang2]

Why countries need peace treaty unless they are at war?

 

[Aepsilons]

Why countries need peace treaty unless they are at war?

For superficial semantics, my friend. Its just a minor diplomatic goal for both sides, i suppose.

Wait...when did Japan declare war on Russia? is this about that 2 or 3 week skirmish that started on the day of the Nagasaki bombing...and then the island stealing ?

Their side only did it for strategic purpose, i suppose. Japan did the same, too, in the early 20th century. Their side only took advantage of a weakened Japanese Empire, at the time, given the American aerial onslaught over the Japanese Islands. Can't blame the Russians for seizing the opportunity.

 

[Schutz]

Wait...when did Japan declare war on Russia? is this about that 2 or 3 week skirmish that started on the day of the Nagasaki bombing...and then the island stealing ?

The Americans were pushing for it for a year but Russia only attacked when Japan was virtually defeated and neither side has ever ended the war, officially. It was agreed to at the Tehran conference that they would enter once the war in Europe was over.

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

Looks like Japan has seen the light and hopefully peace prevails Japan should really have not tried to side against china / russia and north korea

 

[Schutz]

Looks like Japan has seen the light and hopefully peace prevails Japan should really have not tried to side against china / russia and north korea

This is going back 70 years, it isnt recent. China was about as powerful as Ghana back then and North Korea didnt exist.

 

[mike2000 is back]

Good luck to Japan with that. I hate to be a pessimists, but we should be realistic, unless Japan agrees to abandon it's claim to the Kurils islands(which is Japanese by the way), then forget about any dream of signing a peace treaty.

 

[LittleFish]

Russians now lack of money so you can pay one trillion to get the islands back just like what Americans did.