Reparations should be further explored. Japan should be allowed to keep the mainland island but surrender all other islands as reparations for the evils committed during WWII.

Russia took those islands from Japan without their consent. Therefor Rusiians are illegal occupiers.

From Tokyo - we didn't tend to invite the enemy to our allied meetings, like at Yalta, I am sure you understand. We don't need any agreement from you to be in the Kuril islands, it is our reparations form Japan, who behaved in a thoruoghly despicable way in world war 2. You were rank evil. The Kuril islands are ours, so we can't steal our own property. Love the other rants! Typical Japanese, showing your colours well, a big red dot, surrounded by a sea of white emptiness in logic and principles.

Japan never agreed to Yalta. Russia stole Japan’s territory.. Russian s are burglars. It was right Japan took assets from Russia after the Russo-Japanese war cause Russia signed surrender treaty. In case of Kurils, Japan never signed such treaty. Russians are incompetent people who can’t make decent cars. Lada? Moving joke. Russia’s GDP is far smaller than Japanese, despite its land size and population. Russia is an underdeveloped third world country. That’s why it is called BRICs along with India and Brazil.

From Tokyo - Russia stole nothing from you. We took what was agreed at Yalta as reparations for us having to cope with you. So now a question back - did you think it was right you took assets from Russia after the Russo-Japanese war. Do you think that was wrong? Russians don't need your love, we need you to be civilised and negotiate, not return back to your ways!

“Russia entered the war to clean you Axis monsters out of manchuria as part of the allied effort.” Then why did you steal those islands from Japan? Your real desire was to steal those islands? Do you think Japanese people love and trust Russians? Do you think Japanese people want to conclude peace treaty with Russians? Without Japan’s help, Russia will be stone age again.

From Tokyo - Russia entered the war to clean you Axis monsters out of manchuria as part of the allied effort. Considering the torturous evil, you along with your fellow Japanese inflicted on all the allies, especially the Americans, losing the islands was small beer. Now, I know you want to join up with your other Nazi axis buddies again, like the baltic Nazis, who show their alignement by immediately jumping to the side of their Axis buddies again. You can try another sneak attack if you wish, which is your forte, however it just won't work, there is no peace treaty and there is a clear precident to use nuclear weapons against you, as our allies have already done. Now I would suggest you negotiate in a calm manner, then I am sure it can all be worked out, trying to link up with your axis buddies, is just not going to work, there is no replay! you lost get used to it!

Russia entered the war at the last minutes of WW2 and stole those islands from Japan. Russisans are robbers and burglars. Do you think Japanese people love and trust Russians? Do you think Japanese people want to conclude peace treaty with Russians?

Well said Joseph: Japan cemented Russian border on those islands by participating in Kosovo steal from Serbia.

And Gazza I mean credible sources about Danzig massacre of 50,000+ Germans before 1st September 1939 - books, publications, articles, credible websites - not nazi homemade blogs, internet rumors and copy/paste identical comments written here and there. I just can`t wait till You expose Youself as a fairytale writer - please do not forget to cite "your sources" that imaginary polish bolsheviks allied with imaginary Jewish "NVKD" killed those imaginary 50,000 Germans (58,000 to be exact). Especially when there was prison or death penalty for communists in Poland, and most polish bolsheviks where hanged in 1920s. So please share some fairytales with me - I am eagerly waiting for some laughs.

I can`t see any possibility for Poland and especially Baltics to agitate Russia - just how we could do that? How Poland which has small weak army and doesn`t have US troops nor nuclear weapons could agitate Russia, and Germany which has both plus powerful army doesn`t? Aren`t You a bit paranoid, do You think Russia is that weak? Actually it is Russia which agitates Poland - I remember threats of nuclear attack when entering NATO and EU, airspace incursions from Kaliningrad, gas and fuel blackmail - this is happening all the time. If US would like to have those bases in Poland they would be there already - why they are not here yet? Gazza - please check from where came first leaders of Polish People Republic - You will be suprised. And did You expect that communism won`t be executed when there were millions of Red Army soldiers, complete with KGB and NKVD operatives on polish territory? Poles in their own country would not lift a finger if Moscow didn`t say so - this is how much Poles ruled in Poland, and how much polish communist leadership was polish. Bush is not US president now - it is Obama, and his policies are completely different. Please state any credible source about Danzig massacres - I am sure You won`t find any. This is simply because this was a provocation orchestrated by Germany - the same as Glewitz (Gliwice) attack. It just didn`t happen at all.

Oscar, I would be fascinated to know what islands Japan lost to the US that it hasn't long-since re-gained already? I also wonder why you feel that an internal parliamentary procedure in Japan equates to a "claim" against Russia? Has the Russian ambassador been called in to the Japanese foreign ministry and been given a note, or has some formal document of demand been delivered to the Russian foreign ministry in Moscow, or what? When the Japanese parliament discusses Japanese territory, that would not seem to be anything remarkable.

Since when the "losing" side makes demands after a war? Japan lost in WW II, so they shouldn't be making any claims. What's next? they're going to start claiming the islands they lost to the US? Japanese people are funny!

"Gazza" stated that Japan was imperialistic during the late 19 century... So was Russia (along with many european states and the US)! Sure, the japanese soldiers were brainwashed to do a lot of horrible things to the chinese, but Russia was also imperialistic. China was invaded by more or less every big player in the industrial revolution. I do however not have an opinion about the Kuril Islands, but I don't get what BIG Russia wants with these small islands:) The important thing here, only judging by googling the area, is to allow civilian ships from both countries to easily pass their shipment trough. Either by splitting up the territory, making it international or by some other agreement. There are no good or bad sides in this world, just consequences.

"from Poland", your countrymen have a long history of blaming either Germany or Russia for your problems. The source of Polish angst is that the much-maligned Communist period was a case of the Polish repressing the Polish, not the Soviets. Communism as a political/economic system may have been imposed by the WWII victory, but its implementation and particular local characteristics were Polish in origin, ie the Soviets didn't rule Poland, the Poles did, but the Polish would much rather blame someone else rather than take responsibility for their own conduct. Truth hurts, but its still a fact. Also do you seriously think that the Bush Regime didn't push hard for the Polish/Czech ABM bases? If you deny that, you lose all credibility. On another thread, I hold Poland equally responsible with Germany for igniting WWII - anyone remember the massacres of the Danzig corridor, or this another inconvenient fact that the Russophobes have dumped down the memory hole? Did the Poles really expect Hitler and his Nationalist Socialists to sit quietly by while they murdered over 50,000 German nationals? Even if Hitler didn't have his eye to the East, they forced his hand and condemned Europe to catastrophy.

War out of precaution .. is the iraq war and maybe soon to be north korea and iran war ... and Poland sends it's forces everywhere US tells to... so looks like Poland is still silly. Poland and other baltic states(ordered by US) are trying to agitate Russia on every occasion ... as much as possible ... and when they do get a reaction from Russia they start to scream for help like a 5 year old kids that just got smacked on their bottom. Us doesn't want to have any bases and AMD's on Polish territory ???? ... And Poland makes them to ... so Poland is the Boss now ... :D

What is falsified Gazza? This is the truth - not like on those soviet history books that USSR and now Russia tries to indoctrinate world with . Alex - attack from precaution? That makes ANY war justified because it is "from precaution" - this is silly! And actually US is not pushing Poland to have bases on its territory (US actually wants to pull out from this) - Poland wants to have US troops, US bases and AMD to be protected from Russia - from 1990 Poland is threatened and intimidated by Russia on every possible occasion.

In case you haven't noticed, Japan is still occupied by the United States. Back in 1956 the Soviet Union/Russia stated that it was willing to hand over the two southern islands, Shikotan and Habomai, in exchange for a formal peace treaty. Japan would have accepted the deal had it not been pressured by the United States not to do so. Take the United States out of Japan and this would be a non issue. Japan would gain much more from signing a formal peace treaty and expanding trade with Russia than it ever would holding out for all four islands instead of just the two southern ones. The only country that benefits from the whole territorial dispute is the United States. It's the same reason there are US missiles popping up in Poland and the Czech Republic is being pressured to build a US radar base. Just this week Kyrgyzstan, after being pressured by the United States, agreed to keep the U.S. air base open even though it received $20B from Russia to shut it down.

This is just the political games between two nations. If Russia to push the development in Siberia and Far East regions, they need corporation with the three nations in Far East Asia; Japan, China, and Korea. There already exist the trading of the raw material among the three. But if there only trading business, the regional business in the service sector does not improve. So, now Moskow needs technology to industrialize the nation especially in the East; car modernization, IT, up-to-date Nuclear power plant technology and nanotech are the large interests for Moskow. In the end, it is Russia needs Japan, not Japan needs Russia. So, Japan is asking something in return. And if the talk failed, Japan lose less than Russia.