Putin Tours Kuril Islands Amid Tokyo Protest
Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Iturup Island, one of the Kuril Islands disputed between Russia and Japan, in his first personal visit after overseeing a naval exercise in Russia's Far East. During the visit, he toured a fish processing plant and stopped to taste fish roe, amid strong protests from Japan, which considers the islands part of its territory and demands that Russia cease any actions there. Japan asserts that the islands, occupied by the USSR at the end of World War II, have not been formally settled through a peace treaty with Russia and considers them illegally occupied. Russia, on the other hand, regards them as sovereign territory, conducting military and economic activities there, with a population of nearly 20,000 people and resources including minerals and fish.
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