All six Japan Centres in Russia, set up after the Soviet collapse to foster trade and cultural ties, are set to close soon Tokyo will close all six of its government-funded Japan Centre offices in ...

Russia has held a ceremony to commemorate a victory by former Soviet Union troops over the now-defunct Imperial Japanese military 80 years ago. The ceremony took place on Monday on Shumshu Island, ...

Tokyo, Sept. 3 (Jiji Press)--Russia's Far East on Wednesday commemorated the Soviet Union's victory over militarist Japan in World War II 80 years ago, following the Soviet abrogation of the 1941 ...

MOSCOW, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Russia said on Thursday that any dialogue with Japan regarding a peace treaty to formally end World War Two could only begin once Tokyo abandoned what Moscow described as a ...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Friday called on Japan to fully recognize the results of World War II and acknowledge its share of responsibility for unleashing the conflict, according to a ...

MOSCOW, August 30. /TASS/. Russia will always remember that it was China’s resistance which prevented Japan from attacking the Soviet Union in 1941-1942, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an ...

In the summer of World War II, Japan and the Soviet Union maintained an uneasy neutrality, bound by a 1941 pact that allowed each to focus on other fronts. But what if Japan had broken that agreement ...