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...groaning board to the conference table, the talk became much less pleasant; the Japanese discovered that the conference, too, would be Russian style. Shigemitsu, who would like to get all the southern Kurils back, began by asking only for the return of the two nearest islands, Kunashiri and Etorofu, which are small, barren, and of value only to Japanese fishermen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Getting Nowhere | 8/13/1956 | See Source »

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