Monday, November 1, 2010

Angry Japenesse want islands from Russia. ( Week 2 Quarter 2 current events )

So the prez of russia takes a tour to the four Kuril islands.  However, this recent tour has angered quite a few Japenesse people.  You see, they were their islands, until WWII where the Soviet Union seized them. Unfortunetly, Japan wants them back, and Russia wants to keep them.  They proposed to give back two of the four islands, but Japan still would like all of them.  Mabye that is because of offshore oil, silver, gold and other resources.
The contested islands.
I think that the original 2-2 proposition was a intelligent idea.  There is the possibility that the Russians wanted to give them the two smaller, less developed, resource-deprived islands.  Besides that, Russian-Japanesse trade is going quite well.  I hope this is resolved in a fair way, it is stopping WWII from officially ending between the Russians and Japenesse.  Although I highly doubt that this will lead to violence.

1 comment:

  1. You weren't kidding when you commented on Luccas's blog.

    I wonder why Japan wants all of this territory now? Are they finally getting fed up with the overcrowding?

    Where did you get this article? A link would have been helpful.

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