Who Owns the Kurils? The Question of Territorial Sovereignty Arising from the Kuril Islands Dispute
Journal: South African Yearbook of International Law
Year: 2021

The Kuril Islands are a group of volcanic islands that stretch between Hokkaido in Japan and Kamchatka in Russia. They are the subject of an ongoing territorial dispute between Russia and Japan, which is largely rooted in historical developments which took place during the closing chapters of the Second World War. There are several legal questions which arise from the dispute between Russia and Japan pertaining to the establishment of territorial sovereignty. These questions are whether a term w