Japan’s foreign minister warned Russia on Wednesday not to make any provocative moves over four Russian-held islands that both nations claim, PRAVDA.Ru reports.
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June 6, 2007A Russian mariner sailing his inflatable boat to Japan’s coast to buy beer was arrested by local police on the way back.
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April 10, 2007Mizuho Corporate Bank said Monday it has established a representative office in Moscow in a bid to strengthen its business in emerging markets, MarketWatch reported.
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March 5, 2007Documents found in London’s National Archives reportedly show China, North Korea and the former Soviet Union may have planned an invasion of Japan.
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February 22, 2007Japan’s NTT Communications and Russian TransTeleCom are in the final stages of negotiations for a project to link the two nations by jointly laying fibre-optic cable between Hokkaido, northern Japan, and Sakhalin, Russia’s Far East.
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Isuzu is to sign a memorandum of understanding with major Russian automaker OAO Ulyanovsky Avtomobilny Zavod (UAZ) to set up a joint venture in Russia for production of small trucks, the Nikkei business daily said.
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Japanese foreign minister has stated that his country was not considering solving a dispute with Russia over an island group by splitting the total area of the territory, The Associated Press reported on Friday referring to a report by Kyodo News agency.
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December 15, 2006
Japan’s foreign minister said a dispute with Russia over a string of islands could be solved by splitting the total land area in half, the Associated Press news agency reports.
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December 14, 2006Russia and Japan have agreed to simplify visa formalities for some categories of citizens from both countries, a source in the Japanese Foreign Ministry is quoted by RIA Novosti news agency.
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December 4, 2006A visit of Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov to Japan is scheduled to be held approximately in March-April next year, a Russian diplomatic source told on Friday.
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November 24, 2006
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