Word: habomai
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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...
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...