Users of the Japanese service Yahoo News Japan were outraged by the STV News report on the start of road construction on Shikotan, one of the islands of the South Kuriles. RIA Novosti writes about it.
The article said that the development of the island is progressing rapidly, and the new road, created within the framework of the infrastructure program “Development Plan for the Kuril Archipelago”, is going to be completed next year.
The plot also indicated that once the former Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe promised to “personally put an end to the territorial issue with Russia.” Moreover, after his departure, there is a sharp acceleration in the “Russianization” of the Kuril Islands.
Japanese readers were outraged by this course of things. “We will not return real sovereignty over the islands,” said one of the users. “Russia has not the slightest desire to return the islands to us!” Another said.
However, some readers positively assessed the development of infrastructure. “More people will go to them, for example, to a huge fish processing plant,” said one of the users.
Earlier, the Japanese were outraged by the publication by the Russian Ministry of Defense of archival photographs and documents for the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II, in particular on the liberation of the Kuril Islands. According to one user, military bases on the four “northern islands” have long held this Japanese territory at gunpoint by Russian missiles.
As a result of the Second World War, a peace treaty was not concluded between Moscow and Tokyo due to the unresolved territorial dispute over the islands of Iturup, Kunashir, Shikotan and the Habomai group. The Japanese call the South Kurils “northern territories” and do not recognize them as Russian. Moscow does not recognize the very fact of the territorial dispute.
