No treaty was ever signed as the two countries could not resolve a dispute over the then-Soviet Union’s seizure at the end of the war of four islands in the Southern Kuril chain, known in Japan as the Northern Territories.
“I know that his dream - and he truly strived to achieve this - was to conclude a peace treaty between our two countries. The situation is different now,“ the Russian leader said.
“Your husband did a great deal for the development of Russian-Japanese relations. We had very good personal relations,“ Putin was quoted as telling Akie Abe.
Akie Abe told Putin, according to the agencies, that her husband had wanted to meet Putin even after the start of the Ukraine conflict “but unfortunately circumstances were such that he was no longer able to meet you. His life was cut short.”
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