Tag: Japan

A former Dutch prisoner of war on the island of Java, Jan Ruff-O’Herne, has died after spending her later years…

Russia is planning to deploy additional missiles on two islands in the northern portion of the disputed Kuril chain off…

Bernhard Arp Sindberg, a guard at a cement factory in China called “the Shining Buddha” and “Greatest Dane”, rescued thousands…

A week before UK Prime Minister Theresa May is finally due to put her repeatedly delayed Brexit agreement to a…

Russia says it has laid fibre-optic cables to its Pacific Kuril islands that are claimed by Japan, delivering high-speed internet,…

Russia has no timeframe for agreeing to a post-1945 peace treaty with Japan, according to Russia’s veteran foreign minister Sergey…

Russia’s foreign minister has called on Japan to accept its Second World War defeat to move ahead with “peace” talks…

Russia’s Vostok (East)-2018 exercise, from September 11–15 in Pacific Russia, will be the largest Russian military exercise since Zapad (West)…

Russia says it will hold its biggest military exercise since 1981 in September, involving Chinese and Mongolian forces.  The news…

Pro-Brexit Conservative MPs are threatening to block UK Prime Minister Theresa May’s plan for a “customs partnership” with the EU,…

Japan is more focused on securing its trade agreement with Brussels than pursuing any deal with a post-Brexit Britain, according…

Televisions, dishwashers and fridge freezers have been found to use up to twice as much power as advertised on their…

This week a ship left the North Korean port of Rajin (pictured) and landed at Vladivostok in Russia’s far east,…

Russia’s then president Dmitry Medvedev visited the Yuzhno-Kurilsk fish plant in Kunashir, the southernmost of the Kuril Islands, in 2010. Source: Kremlin Russian…

Then president Dmitry Medvedev visited Kunashir, the southernmost of the Kuril Islands, in 2010. Source: Kremlin Russia’s Pacific Fleet has installed batteries of…