Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet at a hot spring resort Thursday, seeking progress on a territorial row that has prevented their countries from signing a peace treaty formally ending World War II.
The two sides are likely to clinch some agreements on economic cooperation, but both have sought to dampen expectations of a breakthrough in the feud over the windswept islands in the western Pacific seized by Soviet forces at the end of the war.
The two leaders will meet in Abe’s home constituency in southwest Japan on Thursday and in Tokyo on Friday.
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Source: Voice of America
