FACTS ON JAPANTransnational issues of JapanDisputes - international:
the sovereignty dispute over the islands of Etorofu, Kunashiri, and Shikotan,
and the Habomai group, known in Japan as the "Northern Territories" and in
Russia as the "Southern Kuril Islands," occupied by the Soviet Union in 1945,
now administered by Russia and claimed by Japan, remains the primary sticking
point to signing a peace treaty formally ending World War II hostilities;
Japan and South Korea claim Liancourt Rocks (Take-shima/Dokdo) occupied by
South Korea since 1954; China and Taiwan dispute both Japan's claims to the
uninhabited islands of the Senkaku-shoto (Diaoyu Tai) and Japan's unilaterally
declared exclusive economic zone in the East China Sea, the site of intensive
hydrocarbon prospecting. |
