Word: habomai
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...Minister to visit Moscow since 1956, Tanaka was primarily interested in discussing the return to Japanese control of four islands north of Hokkaido that were seized by the Soviets at the tail end of the war. Though small geographically (4,244 sq. mi.), the islands-Etorofu, Kunashiri, Shikotani and Habomai*-loom large politically. The Diet has been pressing Tanaka to assert Japan's rights to the islands. If Tanaka could arrange their return under a belated peace treaty with Russia formally ending World War II, it would be a major and much-needed personal triumph...
...Habomai actually consists of five tiny islands and adjoining reefs totaling less than...
...years Japanese fishermen shipping out of Hokkaido have faced a particular risk above and beyond the normal hazards of their trade. From bases in the tiny Habomai and Shikotan islands, only two miles off Hokkaido, Soviet patrol boats steam out at unpredictable intervals, seize from 50 to 100 Japanese fishing boats a year on charges of violating the twelve-mile limit. The crews and the boats are usually sent home, but the Russians keep the captains, sentence them to a year or so at hard labor...
...named the Russians' price for halting its harassment -that Japan scrap its security treaty with the U.S. This was a follow-up to a gambit offered by Nikita Khrushchev, who last month told a group of Japanese visiting in Moscow that he would be willing to hand back Habomai and Shikotan (which the Russians grabbed at war's end), except for the fact that they would "fall into the hands...
...Russian terms. Moscow was willing to exchange ambassadors with Japan, ratify the long-outstanding fisheries pact, put trade relations "on a friendly basis," and even repatriate 1,000 Japanese prisoners (the Japanese insist that the Russians have an additional 10,000 Japanese P.W.s). Russia promised to hand over the Habomai and Shikotan islands "at the conclusion of the peace treaty," a date that Russia can postpone as she wishes. The only real political concession the Russians were prepared to make was not to veto Japan's next bid for U.N. membership but the wily Bulganin later took some...