Could Russia successfully invade Japan in a modern military conflict? This video explores the strategic, logistical, and geopolitical challenges behind such a scenario from naval strength and air ...

Deputy head of Russia's Security Council Dmitry Medvedev takes part in ceremonial events, that mark the anniversary of the World War Two victory over Japan, in Glory Square in the far eastern city ...

As Japan’s newly elected prime minister, Shigeru Ishiba, composes his cabinet, one position remains conspicuously vacant: Minister for Economic Cooperation with Russia. Moscow has noticed, with ...

Japan and Russia are in a territorial dispute over a group of Russian-held islands, which the former Soviet Union seized from Japan at the end of World War II.

Russia has carried out one of its largest attacks against Ukraine amid concerns over Ukraine's air-defense capabilities after ...

Russia was preparing to attack Japan in the summer of 2021, months before President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, an email featuring a letter from a whistleblower at ...

Russia said on Wednesday that Japan had failed to provide full information on the radioactive water being discharged from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant, despite repeated requests from ...

The addition would almost triple the total number of North Korean soldiers directly fighting alongside Russia in its war ...

Japan quickly sent military and humanitarian assistance, and in March it successfully lobbied eight of the 10 ASEAN countries to back a U.N. resolution condemning Russia’s invasion.

Russia and Japan previously fought in what is now known as the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905. The war was decisively won by the Empire of Japan, delivering what was then a shocking defeat to the ...

The Russo-Japanese conflict of 1904-05 was anticipated to be a "short, successful war" for Russia against an inferior opponent. Instead, it became a rout of St. Petersburg's forces in the Far East ...

So superior is Japan on the sea that, should the Great Powers remain neutral, she could not only take Vladivostok and Russia’s Siberian fishing grounds with ease but could also send a few of her ...