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History has vividly documented that the stability of Northeast Asia depends on the condition of Russo-Japanese relations. Russia and Japan share a long, turbulent record of cultural, economic, and political rivalry. Moreover, the two countries have fought each other four times in the last eighty years; the most recent in the latter stages of World War Two, and yet, Japan still has not signed a peace treaty with the Soviet Union.

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Territories of Poverty challenges the conventional North-South geographies through which poverty scholarship is organized. Staging theoretical interventions that traverse social histories of the American welfare state and critical ethnographies of international development regimes, these essays confront how poverty is constituted as a problem. In the process, the book analyzes bureaucracies of poverty, poor people's movements, and global networks of poverty expertise, as well as more intimate modes of poverty action such as volunteerism. From post-Katrina New Orleans to Korean c

The article discusses Japanese revisionist claims to the Kuril Islands and a portion of Sakhalin Island from 1955 to the present. The author notes that these claims are squarely in conflict with the San Francisco Peace Treaty of 1951, in which Japan formally ceded all rights, title and claim to those territories to the Soviet Union. Japanese academics appeal to the older St. Petersburg Russian-Japanese Treaty of 1875, which guaranteed the Kuril Islands to Japan. The author describes the events at the Potsdam Conference, as well as the contents of the Yalta Agreement, which led to the agreement among the allies that the Kurils would be ceded to the Soviet Union. The author also notes that Japan voluntarily renounced claims to the islands through a further 1956 Joint Declaration with the Soviet Union that renounced any territorial claims made by Japan created by the war. Adapted from the source document.