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Japan criticizes Russia for laying undersea cables to disputed island

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Japanese officials criticiszed Russia on Monday for its plans to lay fiber-optic cables to islands disputed by Tokyo and Moscow, calling the construction work "deplorable" and "without legal basis." Ties between Japan and Russia have been strained for decades over the four islands, which were
Japanese officials criticiszed Russia on Monday for its plans to lay fiber-optic cables to islands disputed by Tokyo and Moscow, calling the construction work “deplorable” and “without legal basis.”
Ties between Japan and Russia have been strained for decades over the four islands, which were occupied by the Soviet Union in the closing days of World War II but are claimed by Tokyo.
They are known in Japan as the Northern Territories and in Russia as the Southern Kurils.
“It is extremely deplorable that such a project is being carried out under the Russian occupation that has no legal basis,” government spokesman Yoshihide Suga told reporters
The Sankei Shimbun newspaper reported over the weekend that Russia plans to lay the cables between the disputed islands and Russia’s Pacific island of Sakhalin.

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