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Originally Posted by Cyrus17
But as long as major aspects of Japan's foreign and military policies decided in US, it's kinda improbable for it (Japan) to become friendly with Russia, to provide Russia with some substantial [technological or economic] benefit, even in exchange for the islands.)
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The US has nothing to do with the dispute. Russia and Japan (among other nations in the region) have been fighting over those islands for over a hundred years. At one point there were even treaties governing who owned what, but that was obviously dissolved during WW2 leading to their current state of "ownership".