Russia returns two seized fishermen to Japan
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Russia returned to Japan on Wednesday  two sailors whose detention off its far eastern coast had  strained relations between the two countries.
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Japanese whalers said Tuesday they are holding captive two activists who "illegally" boarded their vessel in the Southern Ocean, in a dramatic escalation in the battle between the two sides.
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Japan said it wanted Russia to return all four Kuril islands, snubbing Moscow's renewed talk of returning two of them to end the dispute that has prevented the countries from formally ending World War II.
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President Vladimir Putin on Monday said Russia is willing to hand over two of the four disputed Kuril Islands to Japan under a declaration that the Soviet Union signed in 1956.
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Activists withdrew a threat to ram a  Japanese whaling fleet in the frigid Southern Ocean on Tuesday,  while in Tokyo pro-whaling nations met to push for a return to  commercial fishing of the giant creatures.
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Eleven fishing boat crew who had been stranded since October in a remote part of Russia's Far East have been rescued after sheltering nearly three months at an abandoned military base, according to television and Russian news agency reports.
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Russia plans to release the captain from one of four Japanese fishing boats seized in disputed waters last week out of concern for his health, Japan's Foreign Ministry said Wednesday.
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TWO Russian aircraft have left Moscow for Sri Lanka, carrying 25 tonnes of humanitarian aid for victims of the tsunamis that devastated large parts of the country, ITAR-TASS news agency has reported.
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A Russian patrol boat opened fire on a Japanese vessel in disputed waters Wednesday, killing a fisherman and prompting a strong protest from Tokyo. Moscow urged Japanese boats to stay out of its waters, the Japanese government said.
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Astana - Moscow, November 17 KAZINFORM - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is planning to discuss with his Japanese colleague Nobutaka Machimura relations between the two countries, including the peace treaty problem.
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Japan sent two destroyers and a surveillance airplane to the Sea of Japan on Thursday, American and Japanese government officials said, after the United States and Japan detected
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Japan's PM Junichiro Koizumi takes a boat trip to view the Russian-held Kuril islands, which Tokyo lays claim to.
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Four North Koreans who arrived by boat at a Japanese port two weeks ago left Japan on Saturday for South Korea, their desired destination, police said.
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Japan's foreign minister warned Russia on Wednesday not to make any provocative moves over four Russian-held islands that both nations claim.
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In a move that Moscow has criticized, Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has sailed close to Russian-held islands that Japan claims as its own.
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Four people believed to have fled North  Korea arrived at a port in northern Japan in a small boat on  Saturday and later told police they want to go to South Korea,  Kyodo news agency reported.
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A Japanese whaling ship late Thursday handed over to an Australian customs vessel two anti-whaling activists who climbed aboard two days earlier, an official from Japan's Fisheries Agency said.