Russian City: Russian-Held Islands and Japanese Residents

russian city: Abe is visiting the Russian port city to attend a two-day Eastern Economic Forum that started Wednesday, according to The Japan Times. Tokyo sees the joint projects on the Russian-held islands, also claimed by Japan, as a pathway to resolving the territorial dispute and the signing a postwar peace treaty. In their talks in the eastern Russian city of Vladivostok, the leaders are likely to sign off on joint projects in five areas aquaculture, greenhouse farming, tourism, wind power and waste reduction, the source said Wednesday. ; I hope to make progress on the peace treaty issue by realizing joint economic activities that have been promoted and free visits by former Japanese residents to the islands, Abe said before he left Tokyo. Moscow, for its part, hopes to attract Japanese investments in promoting the underdeveloped regions. An intergovernmental working group will also be set up to promote the projects, with officials from foreign, trade, health and environment ministries taking part from Japan, according to the source. With a view to realizing the projects, a group of Japanese government officials and experts from the public and private sectors will conduct a second round of studies on the islands as early as October, the source said. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.