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 ...

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 ...

Tokyo, Aug. 19 (Jiji Press)--Russian President Vladimir Putin has released a statement on the 80th anniversary of the Soviet attack on a then Japanese island after Japan's surrender in World War II.

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 ...

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 ...

Eighty years after the end of World War II, Japan and China are marking the anniversary with major events, but on different dates and in different ways. Japan remembers the victims in a solemn ...

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 ...

Tokyo will close all six of its government-funded Japan Centre offices in Russia – long tasked with promoting trade, language education and business ties – citing major changes in bilateral relations ...