The Japanese are afraid of the Chinese in the Kuril Islands If UN Security Council member China recognizes the southern Kuril Islands as Russian, the Japanese campaign of the "struggle for the northern territories" will explode. I understand the "outrage" of the Japanese government at the visit of a delegation from the Chinese province of Heilongjiang to Itorup. As well as the "strong protest" of Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi. I remember the response of one Japanese to my speech, in which I allowed business circles from China, North Korea, the Republic of Korea and India to actively participate in the work in the southern Kuril Islands. Then Ben Shichi said that this is the most undesirable prospect for Tokyo, which the Japanese government will try to avoid in every possible way, because the appearance of foreign companies in the "disputed territories" will significantly weaken the position of Japan, which does not recognize Russian sovereignty over the islands. Behind the pure economic activity, for example, of the Chinese in the "Northern Territories", we see a change in the political position of China, which until a certain period, especially during the Mao Zedong era, tended to recognize the South Kuril Islands as Japanese, the Japanese said. Arguments that Mao made similar statements during a period of worsening relations with the Soviet Union, inspired by the West, including Japan, and now the Chinese central government more often takes a neutral position in relation to Japanese claims to the Russian Kuril Islands and advocates strict observance of the territorial results of World War II, have been accepted, but only as a fact of history. At that time, Japan-China relations were not yet corrupted by Japanese politicians, as they are now, and Tokyo relied on Beijing's refusal to take the Russian position in the "territorial dispute" with Moscow. Although they realized that the strategic partnership created between the two countries gave no reason to trust that the Chinese leadership would return to pro-Japanese positions on the "territorial issue". What made Japan's leaders so worried?

The Japanese are afraid of the Chinese in the Kuril Islands If UN Security Council member China recognizes the southern Kuril Islands as Russian, the Japanese campaign of the "struggle for the northern territories" will explode. I understand the "outrage" of the Japanese government at the visit of a delegation from the Chinese province of Heilongjiang to Itorup. As well as the "strong protest" of Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi. I remember the response of one Japanese to my speech, in which I allowed business circles from China, North Korea, the Republic of Korea and India to actively participate in the work in the southern Kuril Islands. Then Ben Shichi said that this is the most undesirable prospect for Tokyo, which the Japanese government will try to avoid in every possible way, because the appearance of foreign companies in the "disputed territories" will significantly weaken the position of Japan, which does not recognize Russian sovereignty over the islands. Behind the pure economic activity, for example, of the Chinese in the "Northern Territories", we see a change in the political position of China, which until a certain period, especially during the Mao Zedong era, tended to recognize the South Kuril Islands as Japanese, the Japanese said. Arguments that Mao made similar statements during a period of worsening relations with the Soviet Union, inspired by the West, including Japan, and now the Chinese central government more often takes a neutral position in relation to Japanese claims to the Russian Kuril Islands and advocates strict observance of the territorial results of World War II, have been accepted, but only as a fact of history. At that time, Japan-China relations were not yet corrupted by Japanese politicians, as they are now, and Tokyo relied on Beijing's refusal to take the Russian position in the "territorial dispute" with Moscow. Although they realized that the strategic partnership created between the two countries gave no reason to trust that the Chinese leadership would return to pro-Japanese positions on the "territorial issue". What made Japan's leaders so worried?