Tokyo-Sana
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida today reiterated his commitment to work towards resolving the territorial issue and concluding a peace treaty with Russia.
"I intend to continue working in the field of relations with the aim of finding a comprehensive way to solve the territorial issue and conclude a peace treaty with Russia," Kishida said in a speech to parliament, broadcast on his official website.
Fumio Kishida, who won the party elections on September 29, became Japan's 100th prime minister.
For many years, relations between Russia and Japan have been dominated by the absence of a peace treaty between the two countries. Japan considers the South Kuril islands, which are the Kunashir and Shikotan Iturup and Habomai islands, as belonging to it and insists on their return under Japanese sovereignty, but Moscow's position confirms that these islands became part of the territory of the Soviet Union in the wake of World War II and Russia's supremacy over it is not in doubt.
