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Demand for Japan's dental technology growing in Russia

ASAHIKAWA, Japan - A Russian dentist treats a patient at his clinic in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk on the Far Eastern island of Sakhalin as seen in this file photo taken on Aug. 18, 2014, amid growing local demand for Japan's advanced dental technology.

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Russian museum eager to display Japan dinosaur fossil replica

ASAHIKAWA, Japan - Nipponosaurus' skeleton model is displayed at the Hokkaido University Museum in Sapporo on June 26, 2014. The fossil was discovered in 1934 in the Japanese territory of Karafuto, in what is now Sakhalin, Russia. The Sakhalin Regional Museum in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk wants to display a replica of the fossil.

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Japanese restaurant owner in Russia spreads friendship

YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, Russia - Photo taken Aug. 7, 2013 shows Yutaka Miyanishi, honorary citizen of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, who worked for the lighting-up of the Sakhalin Regional Museum in the Far Eastern city, formerly known as the Karafuto-cho (Karafuto Government Office) Museum, which the Japanese government built in 1937 when it controlled the south part of Sakhalin island.

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U.S. firm to build wind power plant on Kunashiri

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - Photo taken in February 2013 shows the headquarters of Sakhalin Machinery LLC in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia. The company, owned by Tiger Machinery LLC based in the U.S. state of Alabama, won an order to build a wind power generation plant on Kunashiri Island, a senior Sakhalin Province official said on March 29, 2013. Kunashiri is one of four-Russian held islands claimed by Japan.

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New, old piers on Russian-held island

YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, Russia - Photo taken Jan. 21, 2011, shows a newly built pier (back) and an old one (front) in Furukamappu on Kunashiri Island. Infrastructure development is being promoted by Russia on the island claimed by Japan.

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Family on Russian-held island visited by Medvedev

YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, Russia - Vyacheslav Nodirov (L), a welder on Kunashiri Island, and his family are photographed Jan. 21, 2011, at their home on the island, one of four subject to a territorial dispute between Russia and Japan. He was visited by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in November 2010.

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Housing district on Russian-held island

YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, Russia - Photo taken Jan. 20, 2011, shows a housing district in Furukamappu on Kunashiri Island, a Russian-controlled island claimed by Japan.

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Soviet-Japan war memorial

YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, Russia - Citizens offer flowers around a monument commemorating the World War II dead of the former Soviet Union in fighting against Japan in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia, on Sept. 2, 2010, the Soviet victory memorial day designated in July.

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Soviet-Japan war memorial

YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, Russia - Citizens offer flowers around a monument commemorating the World War II dead of the former Soviet Union in fighting against Japan in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia, on Sept. 2, 2010, the Soviet victory memorial day designated in July.

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Soviet-Japan war memorial

YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, Russia - Visitors view an old tank of the Imperial Japanese Army exhibited at a museum in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia, on Sep. 1, 2010. The local authorities showed the tank, which had been deserted on Shumshu Island, to reportedly assert the Soviet Union's victory over Japan ahead of Sept. 2, a memorial day designated two months earlier.

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Soviet-Japan war memorial

YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, Russia - Children climb on top of an old tank of the Imperial Japanese Army exhibited at a museum in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia, on Sep. 1, 2010. The local authorities showed the tank, which had been deserted on Shumshu Island, to reportedly assert the Soviet Union's victory over Japan ahead of Sept. 2, a memorial day designated two months earlier.

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Sakhalin restores Japanese cultural assets to attract tourists

YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, Russia - Photo shows the former Karafuto Prefecture museum, now a Sakhalin state local history museum, in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk in Russia, which was built before World War II by the Japanese prefectural government. The provincial government of Sakhalin is restoring with the help of Japanese experts buildings and other cultural assets the Japanese left behind after the war with a view to attracting Japanese tourists to the southern region of the island north of Hokkaido which was ruled by Japan between 1905 and 1945.

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Sakhalin restores Japanese cultural assets to attract tourists

YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, Russia - Photo shows the former branch of now-defunct Japanese bank Hokkaido Takushoku Bank, now a Sakhalin state museum, in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk in Russia, which was built before World War II. The provincial government of Sakhalin is restoring with the help of Japanese experts buildings and other cultural assets the Japanese left behind after the war with a view to attracting Japanese tourists to the southern region of the island north of Hokkaido which was ruled by Japan between 1905 and 1945.

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Aso, Medvedev hold summit talks in Sakhalin

YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, Russia - Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso (L) speaks to reporters after talks with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, the capital of Sakhalin Island, on Feb. 18. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Aso, Medvedev hold summit talks in Sakhalin

YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, Russia - Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso (L) speaks to reporters after talks with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, the capital of Sakhalin Island, on Feb. 18. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Aso, Medvedev hold summit talks in Sakhalin

YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, Russia - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (L) and Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso shake hands in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, the capital of Sakhalin Island, on Feb. 18 prior to their talks. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Aso, Medvedev hold summit talks in Sakhalin

YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, Russia - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (L) and Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso (R) sit down for talks in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, the capital of Sakhalin Island, on Feb. 18. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Aso arrives in Russia to meet with Medvedev

YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, Russia - Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso arrives in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk on Sakhalin Island on Feb. 18 for talks with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. Aso is the first Japanese premier in the postwar period to set foot on the island. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Russian court imposes fine on Japanese fishing boat skipper

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - Noboru Sakashita, the captain of the crab fishing boat Kisshin Maru No. 31, attends a hearing at the South Kuril District Court in Yuzhno-Kurilsk on the Russian-held Kunashiri Island on Sept. 21. The Russian court ordered him to pay about 500,000 rubles ($12,700, or 2.2 million yen) in fines and damages for intruding into and poaching in Russian-claimed territorial waters just off Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido in mid-August.

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Sakhalin 2 project operator confident of profitability

YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, Russia - Ian Craig, president of Sakhalin Energy Investment Co., speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Yushno-Sakhalinsk on Oct. 21. He indicated the firm is confident of securing profitability in connection with its Sakhalin 2 oil and natural gas development project off the island of Sakhalin in Russia's Far East.

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Russia ready to release all 20 Japanese fishermen

NEMURO, Japan - Russia tells Japan on Sept. 1 it will release all 20 crew members of three Japanese fishing boats seized Aug. 27 near the Russian-held, disputed Habomai group of islets east of Hokkaido, Japan. But it said the captains and the boats will be kept in custody ''for a while'' because of the ongoing investigation. Photo shows the fishing boats being towed on Aug. 28 at Yuzhno-Kurilsk, known as Furukamappu in Japan, on Kunashiri Island, another Russian-held island claimed by Japan.

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Sakhalin 2 project operator confident of profitability

YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, Russia - Ian Craig, president of Sakhalin Energy Investment Co., speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Yushno-Sakhalinsk on Oct. 21. He indicated the firm is confident of securing profitability in connection with its Sakhalin 2 oil and natural gas development project off the island of Sakhalin in Russia's Far East. (Kyodo)

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Aso arrives in Russia to meet with Medvedev

YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, Russia - Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso arrives in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk on Sakhalin Island on Feb. 18 for talks with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. Aso is the first Japanese premier in the postwar period to set foot on the island. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)(Kyodo)

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Aso, Medvedev hold summit talks in Sakhalin

YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, Russia - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (L) and Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso shake hands in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, the capital of Sakhalin Island, on Feb. 18 prior to their talks. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)(Kyodo)

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Aso, Medvedev hold summit talks in Sakhalin

YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, Russia - Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso (L) speaks to reporters after talks with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, the capital of Sakhalin Island, on Feb. 18. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)(Kyodo)

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Aso, Medvedev hold summit talks in Sakhalin

YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, Russia - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (L) and Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso (R) sit down for talks in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, the capital of Sakhalin Island, on Feb. 18. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)(Kyodo)

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Aso, Medvedev hold summit talks in Sakhalin

YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, Russia - Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso (L) speaks to reporters after talks with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, the capital of Sakhalin Island, on Feb. 18. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)(Kyodo)

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Sakhalin's Koreans angry over delay in cultural center

Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia - Park Hae Yong, president of the pro-Seoul Korean Residents' Association on Sakhalin, speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Sakhlin. Park spoke of the anger among his patriots in Sakhalin over what they see as Japan's failure to keep its promise to build a cultural center for the ethnic Koreans stranded on the Russian-ruled island as a result of Japan's past colonial policy.

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Russian citizens pay floral tributes at Eternal Flame Memorial

Russian citizens leave floral tributes at the Eternal Flame Memorial in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, the Russian Far East, on Sept. 2, 2015, to remember fallen soldiers in World War II. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Parade held in Russia to mark 70th anniv. of WWII end

Tanks parade in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, the Russian Far East, on Sept. 2, 2015, to mark the 70th anniversary of World War II victory over Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Statue of WWII Soviet commander unveiled in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk

A newly erected statue of Soviet Marshal Aleksandr Vasilevsky is seen on Sept. 1, 2015, in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk in the Russian Far East. Vasilevsky, commander of Soviet forces in the Far East, was in charge of the Manchurian Strategic Offensive operation against Japan in the closing days of World War II. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Statue of WWII Soviet commander unveiled in Sakhalin

People look at a statue of Soviet Marshal Aleksandr Vasilevsky unveiled in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk in the Russian Far East on Sept. 1, 2015. Vasilevsky, commander of Soviet forces in the Far East, was in charge of the Manchurian Strategic Offensive operation against Japan in the closing days of World War II. The unveiling ceremony was held the same day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Memorial service held for Japanese war dead in Russia's Far East

Toshiei Mizuochi, a Japanese upper house member and head of the Japan War-Bereaved Families Association, pays floral tribute during a memorial service for Japanese World War II soldiers in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk on Russia's Far Eastern island of Sakhalin on Nov. 11, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Russia hands over Japanese soldiers' remains recovered in Far East

Toshiei Mizuochi (L), a Japanese upper house member who heads an association of people who lost family members during World War II, shakes hands with a Russian official at a memorial service held in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk on Russia's Far Eastern island of Sakhalin on Nov. 11, 2015. Russia handed over to Japan the same day a total of 31 sets of what are believed to be remains of Japanese soldiers recovered by a Russian group on Shumshu Island, now part of Russia's Kuril Islands chain. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hokkaido business center completed in Sakhalin

Harumi Takahashi (2nd from L), governor of Hokkaido Prefecture in northern Japan, and Oleg Kozhemyako (far L), governor of the Russian far east province of Sakhalin, cut the ribbon to celebrate the completion of the "Hokkaido Center" in the Sakhalin capital of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk on Oct. 23, 2015. The center was built by a joint venture comprising nine companies based in Hokkaido with the aim of helping local firms advance into Russia. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hokkaido business center opened in Sakhalin

Hokkaido Gov. Harumi Takahashi (L) explains on Oct. 23, 2015, about goods produced on Japan's northernmost main island to Oleg Kozhemyako (R), governor of the Russian far east province of Sakhalin, at the "Hokkaido Center" completed in the Sakhalin capital of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. The center was built by a joint venture comprising nine companies based in Hokkaido with the aim of helping local firms advance into Russia. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hokkaido, Sakhalin governors seek stronger fishery, farm ties

Gov. Harumi Takahashi (far R) of Hokkaido, northern Japan, and Gov. Oleg Kozhemyako (far L) of the Russian province of Sakhalin, meet to discuss bilateral relations in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk on Oct. 22, 2015. The two sides agreed to strengthen cooperation in the fields of fisheries and agriculture. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hokkaido, Sakhalin governors seek stronger fishery, farm ties

Gov. Harumi Takahashi (L) of Hokkaido, northern Japan, shakes hands with Gov. Oleg Kozhemyako of the Russian province of Sakhalin on Oct. 22, 2015, in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. The two governors agreed to strengthen cooperation in the fields of fisheries and agriculture. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Gazprom's Medvedev discloses plan to boost LNG plant capacity

Alexander Medvedev, deputy chairman of the Management Committee of Gazprom, gives a press conference in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia, on Sept. 29, 2015. He revealed a plan to boost the production capacity of the Sakhalin-II liquefied natural gas plant from about 10 million tons to about 15 million tons per year by 2021. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Old Japanese tank displayed at museum on Russia's Sakhalin Island

A woman takes a photo of a boy sitting atop an Imperial Japanese Army tank at the Sakhalin Regional Museum in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk on Sakhalin Island in the Russian Far East on Sept. 2, 2015. The tank, which was recently repaired and relocated, had been abandoned on one of the Kuril Islands where Japanese and Soviet troops fought fiercely after Japan accepted the Potsdam Declaration ending World War II. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan-era urban planning survives in Russian Far East

A paraglider flies over Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk on the Russian Far East island of Sakhalin on Sept. 3, 2015. The city's grid-pattern streets were created during Japan's 1905-1945 rule of the southern part of the island. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Children sing in chorus at WWII event marking Russian victory

A children's chorus sings a song praising Russia at an event commemorating the 1945 Soviet victory over Japan in World War II in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk on the Russian Far East island of Sakhalin on Sept. 2, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese bank turned into art museum on Russia's Sakhalin Island

Photo taken on Sept. 2, 2015, shows a former branch of now-defunct Hokkaido Takushoku Bank Ltd. that has been turned into the Sakhalin Art Museum in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk on the Russian Far East island of Sakhalin. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Play depicting Japan's WWII loss shown on Russian-held island

Russian soldiers perform a play about battling Japanese troops on Kunashiri, one of the four Japanese islands occupied by Russia toward the end of World War II, in the Russian Far Eastern city of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk on Sakhalin Island on Sept. 2, 2015, to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Japan's surrender in the war. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Play depicting Japan's WWII loss shown on Russian-held island

Russian soldiers perform a play about battling Japanese troops on Kunashiri, one of the four Japanese islands occupied by Russia toward the end of World War II, in the Russian Far Eastern city of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk on Sakhalin Island on Sept. 2, 2015, to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Japan's surrender in the war. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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WWII anniversary ceremony held in Russian Far East

Russian troops march during a military parade in the Russian Far Eastern city of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk on Sakhalin Island on Sept. 2, 2015, to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Russian soldiers march at WWII anniversary ceremony in Far East

Over 700 Russian soldiers march during a military parade in the Russian Far Eastern city of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk on Sakhalin Island on Sept. 2, 2015, to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Sakhalin restores Japanese cultural assets to attract tourists

YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, Russia - Photo shows the former branch of now-defunct Japanese bank Hokkaido Takushoku Bank, now a Sakhalin state museum, in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk in Russia, which was built before World War II. The provincial government of Sakhalin is restoring with the help of Japanese experts buildings and other cultural assets the Japanese left behind after the war with a view to attracting Japanese tourists to the southern region of the island north of Hokkaido which was ruled by Japan between 1905 and 1945. (Kyodo)

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Sakhalin restores Japanese cultural assets to attract tourists

YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, Russia - Photo shows the former Karafuto Prefecture museum, now a Sakhalin state local history museum, in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk in Russia, which was built before World War II by the Japanese prefectural government. The provincial government of Sakhalin is restoring with the help of Japanese experts buildings and other cultural assets the Japanese left behind after the war with a view to attracting Japanese tourists to the southern region of the island north of Hokkaido which was ruled by Japan between 1905 and 1945. (Kyodo)

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Russian court imposes fine on Japanese fishing boat skipper

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - Noboru Sakashita, the captain of the crab fishing boat Kisshin Maru No. 31, attends a hearing at the South Kuril District Court in Yuzhno-Kurilsk on the Russian-held Kunashiri Island on Sept. 21. The Russian court ordered him to pay about 500,000 rubles ($12,700, or 2.2 million yen) in fines and damages for intruding into and poaching in Russian-claimed territorial waters just off Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido in mid-August. (Kyodo)