Japanese on visa-free visit to Russian-held island

SAPPORO, Japan - Japanese visitors dance with Russian partners in a party on the island of Shikotan, one of the four Russian-administered islands claimed by Japan off the northernmost main island of Hokkaido, on June 8, 2014, the last day of a visa-free exchange program. The program started in 1992 in the absence of a peace treaty due to the territorial dispute.

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