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Soviets and Japan Still at War in World War II After 40 Years
The article traces Soviet and Japanese hostilities from 1914 through postwar disputes over the Northern Territories and a 1956 rapprochement. It notes Stalin promised entry into the war in 1945, the Siberian labor camps, repatriations into 1959, and ongoing disputes over four islands near Hokkaido.
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Tokyo
Soviet Union
Japan
United States
Nagasaki
Red Army
Manchuria
Korea
Sakhalin
Kuril Islands
Josef Stalin
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
Britain
Yalta
Germany
Viacheslav M. Molotov
Douglas A. MacArthur
U.S
Berlin
Soviet
Siberian
Hokkaido
Moscow
Etorofu
Habomai
Shikotan
Kunashira
Foreign Ministry
Yoshio Hatano
Yasuhiro Nakasone
Mikhail Gorbachev
Konstantin Chernenko
Hatano
Russia
Matthew Perry
Evfimir V. Putiatin
China
Port Arthur
Dalian
Heihachiro Togo
Tsushima
France
Siberia
Asia
Richard Sorge
Stalin
Sorge
Afghanistan
Northern
Pacific