A right-wing Japanese activist shouts toward the Russian embassy during a Northern Territories Day protest in Tokyo February 7, 2007. Diplomatic relations between Japan and Russia have long been overshadowed by a dispute over four sparsely populated islands, known in Russia as the Southern Kuriles and to Japan as the Northern Territories.
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Russia Ready for New Catching Clashes with Japan
Russia will question the catch near the Southern Kuriles by Japanese fishermen if Japan continues to violate the catching regulations, the RF Foreign Ministry warned.
Russia has voiced vigorous protest against violation of the RF borders by Japanese boats, the RF Foreign Ministry declared, summoning to its headquarters Yoshitaka Akimoto, minister at the Japanese Embassy in Moscow.
“Should Japan fail, in deed and not in name, to take effective actions to exclude any violations within the area under the agreement [on fishery of 1998] in the nearest future, Russia reserves the right to return to the issue of further catch by Japan fishermen in the area,” the ministry warned.
On December 13, Russia’s frontier guards detained four boats of Japan on suspected poaching in the RF territorial waters. On December 14, Japan’s Foreign Ministry urged Russia to release the sailors and the boats as soon as possible.
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