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🇯🇵🇷🇺 Japan/Russia Japan has officially declared that the entire Kuril Islands chain is Japanese territory and is being unlawfully occupied by Russian forces after negotiations between the two countries completely collapsed since the end of World War II. The Japanese government has refrained from making such statements in recent decades so as not to hurt Soviet-Russian relations, but due to the invasion of Ukraine and Japanese sanctions against Russia, diplomatic relations between the two countries are at a severe low.