Word: habomai
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Moscow's Spiridonovka Palace, he might hear something to his advantage about the island territories. Hatoyama, who needs such a political victory to keep his Liberal-Democratic government from falling apart, had hopes that the Russians might yield, not Sakhalin or all the Kuril Islands, but at least Habomai and Shikotan off Hokkaido, which Russia last year promised to return...
...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...
Reischauer, reached in his home late yesterday, emphasized that Russia's occupation of the Habomai Islands, northeast of Japan, is not a case of "new Russian aggression." The United States, said Reischauer, is merely recognizing a Japanese claim that the island belong to Japan and are not part of the Kurile group as Russia claims...