Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan criticized Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s visit last November to one of four Russian-held islands as an “unforgivable outrage". The Soviet Union seized the islands of Etorofu, Kunashiri, Shikotan and the Habomai islet group shortly after Japan’s surrender in World War II in 1945, but Japan continues to claim the islands as well. Prime Minister Kan vowed to seek a settlement of the territorial dispute which has prevented the two countries from signing a postwar peace treaty. The islands are known in Japan as the Northern Territories, and in Russia as the Southern Kurils.
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