Russia releases Japan's fishermen
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Two Japanese fishermen are released from Russian custody, after allegedly fishing in disputed waters.
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Russian special services free two people who were held hostage by inmates at a pre-trial detention centre in Moscow.
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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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Australia said Wednesday that Japan has agreed to release two activists detained after going aboard a Japanese whaling ship near Antarctica, as whale hunters and defenders traded accusations of piracy.
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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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Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced his government would work towards fulfilling a 1956 agreement with Japan to resolve the status of two disputed islands.
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Russian police forced three inmate hostage-takers to release their 15 captives unharmed Monday after an hours-long standoff at a pretrial detention center in southeast Moscow, said Interfax news agency, quoting prison system director Yuri Kalinin.
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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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UST-BOLSHERETSK, Russia  - For a rare visitor to the volcanic Kamchatka peninsula in Russia's Far East, no other custom reveals more about the local economy, lifestyle and environment than salmon poaching.
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A French national jailed in Iran for more than a year for straying into territorial waters during a fishing expedition was released on Sunday, French diplomats said.
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Sunday reaffirmed Moscow's adherence to a 1956 declaration in which the Soviet Union said it was ready to hand over two of the four disputed Kuril Islands to Japan.
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Russia detains Japanese fishing boat    MOSCOW, June 3 (Xinhua) -- Russia detained a Japanese fishing boat near its far-east Kamchatka region on Friday, accusing it of illegal operations, the Interfax news agency reported on Sunday.
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Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, right, on board a patrol boat off the Hokkaido coast. Picture:Reuters. Japan&#39;s Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has defied Russian objections to sail
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YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK. Feb 19 (Interfax) - Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk District Prosecutor Yury Pozdnyakov has confirmed the indictment in the case of Kawatabe Takashi, the captain of the Japanese fishing boat the Zuishe Maru 38.
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Japan has decided to deport former world chess champion Bobby Fischer, who is wanted in the United States for defying sanctions on Yugoslavia, an immigration official said on Tuesday.
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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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Japan has decided to deport former world  chess champion Bobby Fischer, who is wanted in the United  States for defying sanctions on Yugoslavia, an immigration  official said on Tuesday.