More than 75 years since fighting stopped, a still-active WWII-era conflict over a Pacific Island archipelago could see Russian and Japanese warships face off once again in a struggle for control, if one ex-diplomat gets his way.
Akio Kawato, a political scientist who once served as Tokyo’s deputy chief envoy in Moscow, as well as ambassador to Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, urged his country to show it was capable of shutting off supplies to the Russian-controlled Kuril Islands in order to ensure its claims are taken seriously.
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