Kuril Islands Devolution to Japan (Rossiskaya Imperiya KD)

Kuril Islands Devolution to Japan (Rossiskaya Imperiya KD)

The Kuril Islands case was a long disputed territories affair between Russia and Japan since the end of world war II, even if both countries were in the same side, Russia had the Kuril Islands since 1914 by an agreement between Russia and Japan that was considered unjust by Japan years later. In the early 1980's coinciding with a visit of the Showa Emperor to Moscow, the capital of the Russian Empire. Talks were hold during years in neutral territory (Galicia) till the 1983 Lwów treaty (Договор  по делу о  передаче полномочий  от  Курильских островов  до Японии, 日本に 千島列島 の 分権化 の <span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:24px;line-height:normal;">場合 <span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:24px;line-height:normal;">に関する条約) that scheduled the devolution of the Islands to Japan the 31st December of 1995.