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Call to arms,liberate the island and get into Putin grill

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They are trolling Japan. Best to ignore them.

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Russia holds events on disputed isles to mark 1945 victory over Japan

Japan leaders go to Yasukuni ever years, Russia can do whatever they like in their teritory too.

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The illegal occupiers bark loud.

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make it short.Japan was defeated by Soviet Union and islands are part of Russian federation.

kanec filma.

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A very strange comparison, privately going to a shrine for prayers and occupying another country’s territory as a militarily enforced state doctrine.

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Maybe we can loan them some museum-piece tanks for their ceremonies as theirs are all in Ukraine getting blown up?

Now THAT would be some trolling.

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Awa, Russian oil service is collapsing with out help America oil supplies ,it takes technical skills to operate a oil facility ,even technical people on a drilling rig Google Exxon Sakhalin

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In Asia, World War II ended 75 years ago with the capitulation of the Japanese Empire on August 15, 1945. On September 2, a document was formally signed aboard the USS Missouri. Moscow only entered the war against Japan on August 8, 1945, in a move that scrapped the 1941 Japanese-Soviet Neutrality Pact. At the Yalta Conference in February 1945, Josef Stalin agreed the Soviet Union would join the Allies — the United States and Britain — in the war against Japan. About 1.5 million Red Army soldiers fought against Japanese troops in Manchuria in northeastern China. More than 12,000 Red Army soldiers died in a battle that lasted only a few days.

https://www.dw.com/en/second-world-war-russia-commemoration-putin/a-54774692

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Awa, Russian oil service is collapsing with out help America oil supplies ,it takes technical skills to operate a oil facility ,even technical people on a drilling rig Google Exxon Sakhalin

Say what? It's too early for that much sake. Or haven't you yet stopped from last night?

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There are six Sakhalin oil and gas projects. Japanese companies are involved with Sakhalin 1&2. We need natural gas and oil.

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The four islands are Japanese territory illegally occupied by Russia. This is the view held by the United States. United Kingdom and the EU. And this was from well before Russia invaded Ukraine.

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They are trolling Japan. Best to ignore them.

more for the domestic audience, i presume. anything to demonstrate to the local peeps that putput is still in charge and that RU is a "mighty military power."

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EastmannToday 09:33 am JST

make it short.Japan was defeated by Soviet Union

No it was not. Not even close to any version of truth.

If Russia was the "friend" they try to fool Japanese into thinking they are, then Russia would have returned all territory it seized from Japan, as the US has.

Russia, the enemy with the friendly smile and no intention of returning Japanese islands.

Treat them as they are. An enemy in control of Japanese lands.

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Get all these rubbish Russian squatters off Japans inalienable territory.

The amount of environmental damage the Russians have done to these Japanese islands will take many decades to clean up.

BTW - the Russians have no "victory" to celebrate over Japan. The Soviets were cowards, and "declared war" on Japan after the war was effectively over.

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It was a Non-Aggression Pact with Japan until the A bombs dropped.

Be quiet, Boris. Give back the illegally occupied islands.

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OssanAmerica...

This is the view held by the United States. United Kingdom and the EU.

The US, UK and EU are not the world.

The Islands have been Russian for the past 70+ years and I can't see them being any different for the next 70 years regardless of what Japan or the countries you mentioned think.

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It was a Non-Aggression Pact with Japan until the A bombs dropped.

Be quiet, Boris. Give back the illegally occupied islands.

That particular atrocity occurred a few days after the 1.5mil strong Japanese armies surrendered in Manchuria and the islands were liberated.

I hope some kind of deal is made but not until all USA military are evicted from Japan forever. And even then, there is absolutely no possibility at all of Japan getting all 4 back.

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the islands were liberated.

Appropriated perhaps, invaded certainly, but liberated? The inhabitants were all relocated to mainland Japan. In no way does it qualify as "liberated". The ability of pro Russian posters to put their "spin" on things remains unchecked. Let not reality deter you from making Russia look good, even when covered in s--t.

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The death camps of Europe were liberated. Paris was liberated. These Japanese islands were annexed.

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The Islands have been Russian for the past 70+ years and I can't see them being any different for the next 70 years regardless of what Japan or the countries you mentioned think.

There's difference between human and homo sapiens, which is whether you respect humane ethics like your promise you made or not. If everything under the sun is judged by what's now or who's stronger... human beings don't have to think in their brains but just looking at what's on now . Obviously, you belong to the latter.

Doesn't have to be next as long as 70 years, in next a few years, you would be claiming Crimea and Donbass or even what we think as independent country called Ukraine are Russian territories and you would have no question about it.

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What Russian "liberation" looks like.

https://japan-forward.com/comfort-women-statues-build-them-for-all-not-just-some-victims-of-wartime-sexual-violence/

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/may/01/news.features11

We are seeing it still....in 2022

https://euromaidanpress.com/2022/04/25/hundreds-of-ukrainian-women-raped-by-russian-soldiers/

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I wonder if it bothers Japanese that they could have had two of those islands back had ultra-nationalists not demanded them all. Or if they sit there, watch these drills, and know that every moment that passes with the islands under Russian control and they are more and more Russian historically and otherwise, and still say, "Japan did the right thing by denying two of them if we can't have them all!"

Japan will never, ever, see any of these islands again under their control. Like it or not, they are Russian.

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Let them hold their events, after all, it is a part of Russia.

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I missed something… when did Russia and Japan sign a peace treaty? No peace treaty means it’s still on and neither have defeated the other. Russia seems like they’re begging to have it taken off them.

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Wallace, Sakhalin 1 is on life support,after Exxon left,they are producing 10 thousands barrel a day,compared to the 220 thousands barrels,you figure

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Fightoo and Ossan will liberate the island,with the keyboard general

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The Russians had over 5,000,000 KIA's in WWII and were instrumental in defeating Hitler and Nazi German.

The Russians are not cowards.

The Northern Islands are basically useless, and uninhabitable.

I wish Japan would tell Russia to keep them.

Who would ever want to live there ?

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Who would ever want to live there ?

mayhaps - more to do with the fishing territory and oil/gas that lies deep beneath the eez of each island.

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Not the word I would use for the abuse and rape that happened to Japanese citizens in Karafuto (Southern Sakhalin). Same crap in Ukraine. The Russian Empire is simply a blight.

the islands were liberated

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The Northern Islands are basically useless, and uninhabitable.

I wish Japan would tell Russia to keep them.

Who would ever want to live there?

Whichever nation controls the Kuriles can control access between the several ports in Russia's Gar East, the Sea of Okhotsk and the Pacific Ocean. If Japan controlled the Kuriles they could place military bases on those islands and prevent the Russians from sailing past them, blocking Russia's access to the Pacific.

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Japan attacked Russia in 1904 without notice. Japan invaded the Soviet Union in 1939 and got walloped at Nomonhan. Funny how we never hear these facts in Japan. I should also point out that the heinous Soviet invasion of the Southern Kurils was totally supported by the USA and the UK, as was the annexation of those islands after the war. Why isn't Japan ever angry against those countries? It's just Russia to blame, apparently.

I should also point out that about 2000 Soviet soldiers were killed or injured in that invasion, as opposed to about 1000 Japanese troops. Always good to know the facts.

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Lord DartmouthToday  05:32 pm JST

I should also point out that the heinous Soviet invasion of the Southern Kurils was totally supported by the USA and the UK, as was the annexation of those islands after the war. Why isn't Japan ever angry against those countries? It's just Russia to blame, apparently.

Post a link to support that wild claim. The US, UK and EU consider Russia's occupation of the 4 islands to be illegal. The USSR did not even attend the 1951 San Francisco Peace Treaty.

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Well done ,Russia ! Let America & her vassal states know the consequences of war waging. B.t.w. Japan stolen those islands from the Ainu people, local inhabitants of Hokkaido North, those island were nothing being Japanese, they were being annexed in the Japanese empire. So the Soviet red army had liberated there!

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US,UK, E.U. consider that was Russua's illegal occupation of 4vislands…

Give me a break! It was the Yalta conference in Russia, 1945 when Roosevelt, Churchill agreed Stalin to wage war at Japan three months after Germany's surrender. That's why the Red army advanced in the Japanese held territories and that included the Kuriles. Was there a clause in Yalta agreement demanded the Red army to pull out? NO!

About the 1951 S.F. treaty..... 1951 the world at cold war and the Korean war was fighting, the Soviet Union was one of the country involved in this war, why should they attend an event in an enemy country? That's why the was no peace treaty between the former Soviet Union later the succeeding Russian federation and Japan, of course no return of those islands!

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@elephant200, thank you. You answered OssanAmerica for me. I would love to hear from him any evidence he has to support his claim.

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@Haaa Nemui

I missed something… when did Russia and Japan sign a peace treaty? No peace treaty means it’s still on and neither have defeated the other. Russia seems like they’re begging to have it taken off them.

They signed the 1956 Soviet–Japanese Joint Declaration, which said they would continue negotiations on a Peace Treaty, and AFTER that treaty was signed, Russia would give back Habomai and Shikotan (but not Kunashiri and Etorofu).

Don't you think they should hurry up and sign their treaty so that Japan can get back those islands? And don't you think it would be in rather bad faith if they took back the islands by force? I mean in the real world, of course, not the 'Kill all orcs' keyboard warrior world where anything is possible.

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