Golden sunset on Kunashir island. Japanese island Hokkaido is opposite on the territories between Russia and Japan.


The Kuril Islands dispute, known as the Northern Territories dispute in Japan, is a territorial dispute between Japan and the Russian Federation over the ownership of the four southernmost Kuril Islands. The Kuril Islands are a chain of islands that stretch between the Japanese island of Hokkaido at their southern end and the Russian Kamchatka Peninsula at their northern end.


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Location: Russia, Kurile Islands
Photo credit: © Liudmila Kotvitckaia / Alamy / Afripics
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