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Kurile Islands - 1990
Kurile Islands - 1990
Jacek Pałkiewicz2006-06-17 15:59:04
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act, and such propaganda had long been continued as if the islands of Etorofu, Kunashir, Shikotan, and Habomai had legally become Soviet territory. Consequently, the misconception that these were indeed Soviet territories began to take hold among people in the Soviet Union. In addition, reportedly, a misunderstanding arose that the resolution of the territorial issue between Japan and Russia is the question of ceding something that is originally Soviet territory to Japan, or the question of selling out such territory to Japan.
Post-war Issues
The peace treaty between Japan and the Allied Powers including the United States and the United Kingdom, was signed in San Francisco in 1951. The Soviet Union participated in the conference, but did not sign the treaty. It is considered that there are two important points regarding the Northern Territories in both the context of the San Francisco Peace Conference and the San Francisco Peace Treaty.
The first point concerns Japan's renunciation of all rights to the Kurile Islands and the southern half of Sakhalin Island in accordance with the treaty. The "Kurile Islands" that Japan renounced did not include Etorofu, Kunashir, Shikotan, or Habomai islands, which had always been Japanese territories. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, the United States government also state in its official document that the "Kurile Islands" in the San Francisco Peace Treaty does not include and was not intended to include the Habomai Islands, or Shikotan, or the islands of Kunashir and Etorofu which have always been part of Japan proper and therefore under Japanese sovereignty.
The second point is that the Soviet inclusion of the southern half of Sakhalin Island, the Kurile Islands, and the Northern Territories into their territory reportedly could not receive recognition by international society. Then, Foreign Minister Ar made efforts, including submitting proposed amendments to
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