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	Haruko Saito: The Northern Territory Problem, Past and Present
		Exactly speaking, it insists that Kunashiri and Etorofu are not included in the Kuril Islands which were placed out of the sovereignty of Japan by the San-Francisco Peace Treaty signed in 1951.
		Secondly the Kuril Islands are geographically on the chain of volcanos from Kunashiri to Shumushu.
		Kunashiri and Etorofu are excluded of the Kuril Islands abandoned by Japan in the Peace Treaty of San Francisco.
	www.vgws.org /Texte/Saito.html (4389 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Strong aftershocks rattle northern Japan weeks after deadly earthquake
		EST), was centered 37 miles underground, near the island of Kunashiri, about 590 miles north of Tokyo, the Meteorological Agency said.
		The aftershock, about 500 miles north of the magnitude 6.8 tremor that struck rural Niigata prefecture on Oct. 23, was in an area not affected by the initial tremor.
		Kunashiri is one of four islands north of Hokkaido controlled by Russia but claimed by Japan.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,595103021,00.html (517 words)

	Chishima Province - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		It originally contained the Kurile Islands from Kunashiri northwards, and later incorporated Shikotan as well.
		Its original territory is currently occupied by Russia, and its later territory was renounced in the San Francisco Treaty (see Kuril Island conflict)
		Kunashiri (Kunashir) (国後郡) (occupied and administered by Russia, see Kuril Island conflict)
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Chishima_Province (245 words)

	Kuril Islands dispute - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kunashir in Russian (Кунашир) or Kunashiri in Japanese (国後島)
		And Article 2 of an earlier (1855) Russo-Japanese Treaty of Commerce, Navigation and Delimitation (the Treaty of Shimoda), which provided for an agreement on borders, states "Henceforth the boundary between the two nations shall lie between the islands of Etorofu and Uruppu.
		The whole of Etorofu shall belong to Japan; and the Kurile Islands, lying to the north of and including Uruppu, shall belong to Russia." Note that Kunashiri, Shikotan and Habomais Islands are not explicitly mentioned in the treaty.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kuril_Island_conflict (407 words)

	RUSNET :: Russia seizes Japanese fishing boat off Kunashiri Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Russia seized a Japanese fishing boat with five crew members off the disputed Kunashiri Island in northern Pacific on Thursday on suspicion of poaching, Japan Coast Guard officials said.
		The Russian authority apparently took the boat to Kunashiri Island after finding unauthorized catches, including shrimps and rockfish known as "kinki," on the boat, the officials said.
		The incident took place in waters a few kilometers off Kunashiri Island, one of the four disputed islands east of Hokkaido that also include the islands of Etorofu and Shikotan and the Habomai group of islets.
	www.rusnet.nl /news/2005/11/04/print/currentaffairs04.shtml (138 words)

	Japan in Their Own Words
		In March 2001 then Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori proposed to Putin during talks in Irkutsk that simultaneous negotiations be held on the reversion of the Habomai and Shikotan islands (whose return was promised in the 1956 declaration) and on the sovereignty of the Kunashiri and Etorofu islands.
		Under the proposal, territorial negotiations would place emphasis on the sovereignty of Kunashiri and Etorofu while a special work group would be set up to discuss details of the return of Habomai and Shikotan.
		It would be an illusion to expect that the agreement on the two-track talks would lead to some dramatic progress in negotiations on the peace treaty.
	www.esuj.gr.jp /jitow/eng/contents/jitow_0053.htm (812 words)

	Article - An official of Kunashiri, one of the Russian-held islands off Hokkaido claimed by Japan, requested Japanese ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Article - An official of Kunashiri, one of the Russian-held islands off Hokkaido claimed by Japan, requested Japanese aid for repairs to a pier and power station during talks with a visiting delegation, one of the mission members said Friday.
		An official of Kunashiri, one of the Russian-held islands off Hokkaido claimed by Japan, requested Japanese aid for repairs to a pier and power station during talks with a visiting delegation, one of the mission members said Friday.
		Japan is seeking the return of Kunashiri, Etorofu, Shikotan and the Habomai group of islets which were seized by Soviet troops at the end of World War II.
	www.gateway2russia.com /st/art_202781.php (424 words)

	The Legend of the Lady of Kunnepet
		After this, having arrived at Kunashiri I stirred up a grievous war from one end of the land to the other.
		As we much desired to avenge you we brought you up in our home; and after our elder sister had reared you and the younger sister of the Wolf-god had come to you, it was settled that you were to govern the middle of Ainu-land.
		5 Kunashiri and Shumashiri are Islands to the Northeast of Ezo.
	www.sacred-texts.com /shi/safl/safl10.htm (1737 words)

	Hoppodyo do/Kurile Islands
		Furthermore, all of the navigable channels to the north are very narrow, and you might find that as you entered one of the straits, a comparatively small contingent of US ships could suddenly appear in the ocean ahead, blocking your route and placing you in a very compromised position.
		Even if Kunashiri were a barren rock, and the sea around it completely devoid of fish, its strategic value to the Soviet Union, especially during the cold war, must be seen as enormous.
		Thus, it is no surprise that most of the Cold War-era proposals from Japan in an attempt to start negotiations over the islands were based on a formula under which Japan would receive all islands EXCEPT Kunashiri in return for a formal peace treaty, and negotiations over Kunashiri would be put off "until relations stabilised".
	www.mail-archive.com /fukuzawa@ucsd.edu/msg08354.html (467 words)

	Alexander's Gas & Oil Connections - Creative thinking on the Kuril Islands
		But Tokyo should allow Russia to run the administration of Kunashiri in the near- and mid-term, permitting Russian residents to live on the island and waiting for some of them to move to Etorofu in the long term.
		Another reason in support of this kind of solution is that since those smaller three islands -- Habomai, Shikotan and Kunashiri -- and the largest island -- Etorofu -- are administered by different local government organizations, it must be easier to redraw a national boundary between Kunashiri and Etorofu.
		Specifically, Habomai, Shikotan and Kunashiri have been administrated by the "Southern Kuril" local government of the Sakhalin provincial government, while Etorofu has been under the administration of the "Kuril" local government of Russia's Sakhalin Island.
	www.gasandoil.com /goc/news/nts52165.htm (2484 words)

	ProKarelia - Article
		However, the South Kuriles/Northern Territories (Kunashiri, Etorofu, Shikotan and Habomai group), now under Russian sovereignty, are still claimed by both conflicting parties neither of which is ready for compromise acceptable to the opposite party.
		According to Bohlen, US President Franklin Roosevelt accepted Soviet proposals due to the fact that he “thought that both southern Sakhalin and the Kuriles had been seized by Japan in the 1904 war and that Russia was only getting back the territories that had been taken from her”.
		As a legal pretext, Japanese protesters used the statement of the Allied powers confirmed during Potsdam conference according to which Japan was to be stripped of all the "territories which she has taken by violence and greed".
	www.prokarelia.net /en?x=article&article_id=600&author=62 (7472 words)

	Vasily Mikhailovich Golovnin - LoveToKnow 1911
		Golovnin sailed round the Cape of Good Hope, and on the 5th of October 1809, arrived in Kamchatka.
		In 1810, whilst attempting to survey the coast of the island of Kunashiri, he was seized by the Japanese, and was retained by them as a prisoner, until the 13th of October 1813, when he was liberated, and in the following year he returned to St Petersburg.
		Soon after this the government planned another expedition, which had for its object the circumnavigation of the globe by a Russian ship, and Golovnin was appointed to the command.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Vasily_Mikhailovich_Golovnin (311 words)

	E-Budo.com - Peace Boat cruise departs for Kunashiri
		Cruise participants will stay at a Japan-funded facility on Kunashiri dubbed "Muneo House," which entered the limelight in connection with Foreign Ministry-meddling and bidding scandals involving lawmaker Muneo Suzuki, who has been arrested and charged with bribery.
		In 1991, the NGO sponsored a goodwill cruise to Kunashiri and Shikotan islands with 116 passengers under a similar visa-free arrangement.
		The voyage goes against the government's stance that Russia is illegally occupying the islands of Kunashiri, Shikotan and Etorofu and the Habomai islets off Hokkaido, the ministry said.
	www.e-budo.com /forum/showthread.php?t=13388 (613 words)

	CDI Russia Weekly #241
		It must be a strange and unpleasant feeling for the people of the land of the rising sun to look east and see Russia.
		During his visit to Tokyo in September 2000, Putin apparently resurrected an offer the Soviet Union made in 1956 but later revoked, under which Moscow promised to hand over the two southernmost islands, Shikotan and the Habomai group, after a peace treaty was signed.
		Even the main island of Kunashiri depends on Japanese aid for hospital facilities and power generators.
	www.cdi.org /Russia/241-9-pr.cfm (1505 words)

	Yuzhnokurilsk information
		Offshore is the Kuril Trench, one of the deepest ocean areas in the world, which reaches a depth of 10.5 km/6.5 mi.
		Two of the Kurils (Etorofu and Kunashiri) are claimed by Japan for historical reasons; they are of strategic importance and have mineral deposits.
		Japan still claims that the southernmost two (Etorofu and Kunashiri) and the nearby small islands of Habomai and Shikotan do not properly constitute part of the Kuril group.
	www.russianfareast.net /FarEast/city/Yuzhkurilsk/yuzhkur.htm (248 words)

	Plate Tectonics
		It was centered near Kunashiri Island, about 600 miles northeast of Tokyo.
		Russian-held Kunashiri is part of the Kuril Island chain of islands disputed by Tokyo and Moscow.
		The quake was felt in the city of Nemuro on the eastern edge of Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido.
	www.platetectonics.com /article.asp?a=70&c=1 (125 words)

	Japan open to return of two disputed isles
		The dispute—involving the islands of Etorofu, Kunashiri and Shikotan and the Habomai group of islets—has prevented the two countries from concluding a peace treaty, meaning they are still technically in a state of war.
		The rally, conducted at Cape Nosappu on the tip of Nemuro Peninsula, was the largest ever held by groups working for the return of Etorofu, Kunashiri and Shikotan islands and the Habomai group of islets off Hokkaido, organizers said.
		The Japanese Trade Union Confederation (Rengo) was one of the 129 organizations who sent representatives to the event at the cape, from where Kunashiri Island and the Habomai islets can be seen.
	www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/55a/441.html (530 words)

	JRL 4-3-02 - Russia, Japan, Territorial Dispute
		The gap between the two sides was first narrowed during talks between their foreign ministries in 2000.
		A compromise would entail the return of Habomai and Shikotan to Japan, joint development of Kunashiri and Etorofu, and a peace and friendship treaty.
		The question of sovereignty over Kunashiri and Etorofu would be "blurred" and deferred for later talks.
	www.cdi.org /russia/johnson/6168-12.cfm (483 words)

	[No title]
		The same employees at Mitsui & Co. who have been arrested on charges of illegal bidding practices in a project for Kunashiri Island were also in charge of the two biddings in Mongolia.
		It has also been learned that the consulting company (Pacific Consultant International [PCI]) and other trading houses that had joined the rigging bids in the projects on the three northern islands were also involved in the biddings for the Mongolia project.
		In the first-stage bid, another trading house took part and offered the lowest price of 876 million yen, but the company was rejected for the reason that its partner -- an engine manufacturer-- had had no experience of supplying its products to any public agency in an extremely cold region.
	www.stanford.edu /dept/SUL/wwwsul/test/depts/asrg/dailysum/Daily_Summary_2002/july_02/DS020716_1.doc (1370 words)

	South Kuriles/Northern Territories: A Stumbling-block in Russia-Japan Relations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		However South Kuriles/Northern Territories (Kunashiri, Etorofu, Shikotan and Habomai group) now under Russian sovereignty, are still claimed by both conflicting parties none of which ready for compromise acceptable to the opposite party.
		Furthermore, according to George E. Lensen, Soviet territorial claims of November 1940 included all the islands of Kuril Archipelago with Kunashiri and Etorofu ignoring the fact that Japanese sovereignty over the latter 3 islands was never questioned and no previous Russian government ever claimed them. On 9 August 1946 the USSR entered the war against Japan.
		The position of official Tokyo was not subject to any major changes although some political parties surprisingly including the Socialist party and the communists, demanded not only the return of Kunashiri, Etorofu and the Habomais but all the Kuriles insisting on the border as of the treaty of St. Petersburg (1875).
	www.iir.ubc.ca /cancaps/andersen.html (6839 words)

	570 on Peace Boat set sail to visit 'Muneo House' on Kunashiri Japan Policy & Politics - Find Articles
		Peace Boat, a nongovernmental organization (NGO), left Kobe port on Thursday, taking some 570 passengers on a voyage to places including Kunashiri Island, despite a Foreign Ministry request not to visit the disputed territory.
		With permission from the Sakhalin provincial government, tour participants will make a special visa-free trip on a cruise liner to Kunashiri Island off Hokkaido, controlled by Russia but claimed by Japan, after visiting North Korea, South Korea and Sakhalin, Peace Boat officials said.
		In addition to visiting such facilities on Kunashiri Island as a diesel power plant, the participants will also stay at a facility dubbed ''Muneo House,'' which is connected with a scandal involving Japanese lawmaker Muneo Suzuki, who is now arrested and detained on suspicion of bribery.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0XPQ/is_2002_August_19/ai_90625169 (370 words)

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		Still, the scandal comes at a particularly awkward time: Mitsui, like other sogo shosha (general trading companies), is trying to reinvent itself because many industrial structures and practices of the Japanese economy that it helped to build from the rubble of World War II have become obsolete.
		So coveted was the Kunashiri contract that it won the Mitsui president's prize.
		The Kunashiri contract is tiny in the scheme of Mitsui's 12.6 trillion yen in sales.
	www.marketwatch.com /News/Story/Story.aspx?guid={EE416EC1-5479-41BA-BE3C-566E028F9476}&dist=ArchiveSplash&cbsReferrer=¶m=archive&siteid=mktw&garden=&minisite= (1071 words)

	KURILES (Jap. Chishima... - Online Information article about KURILES (Jap. Chishima...
		south, are Kunashiri, Shikotan, Etorofu (generally called Etorop, and known formerly to See also:
		westerly point in Kunashiri, the distance is 71 m., and the Kuriles Strait separating Shumshiri from Kamchatka is about the same width.
		The three southern islands, Kunashiri, Etorofu, and Shikotan, are believed to have belonged to Japan from a remote date, but at the beginning of the 18th See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /KRO_LAP/KURILES_Jap_Chishima_thousand_i.html (974 words)

	WBFF - Stories of Great Bonsai
		Of Ezo spruce, he praised my father and my family for being the pioneer in bringing about its popularity for bonsai.
		Sakagami's wish was for me to realize in bonsai the virgin forest of Hokkaido by using Ezo spruce.
		I had started visiting Kunashiri at the age of 20.
	www.bonsai-wbff.org /remotesthill.shtml (767 words)

	CNN.com - Mitsui falls on bid-rigging arrests - July 4, 2002
		The company has been under investigation for some time for its role in the 2000 bidding on a power project on Kunashiri island.
		The island is technically Russian territory but is one of four contested by Japan.
		Japanese authorities claim the Mitsui executives knew the price the government was willing to pay for a diesel generator project on Kunashiri.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/BUSINESS/asia/07/04/japan.mitsuiarrest/index.html (428 words)

	russia
		Stalin carried out a military occupation of the whole of the Chishima Islands, Shikotan Island and the Habomai Islands, and later unilaterally annexed these islands to the Soviet Union.
		The Chishima Islands, from Shumushu Island at the northern end and Kunashiri Island at the southern end, were historically considered Japan's territory, peacefully established through diplomatic negotiations between Japan and Russia.
		By the treaty of peace and friendship concluded between Japan under the Tokugawa shogunate and czarist Russia, the Southern Chishima Islands (Etorofu Island and Kunashiri Island) belonged to Japan, and the northern Chishima Islands (excluding the above-mentioned two islands) belonged to Russia.
	www.japan-press.co.jp /2005/2421/russia.html (742 words)

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