TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will become on Thursday the first G-7 leader to allow an official visit by Russian President Vladimir Putin since Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014.
The reason? His eagerness to resolve a 70-year-old territorial dispute that has kept their countries from signing a peace treaty formally ending World War II. A look at the two-day talks, which open at a hot springs resort in Abe’s ancestral hometown of Nagato and wrap up Friday in Tokyo:
THE ISLANDS
Japan says the Soviets took the southern Kuril islands illegally at the end of World War II, expelling …read more
Source: KXAN
