TOKYO: Tokyo and the Kremlin will on Wednesday resume negotiations on the decades-old territorial row over Russian-held islands off Hokkaido, Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida has announced.

Chikahito Harada, Japan's special representative for Japan-Russia relations, and his counterpart, Deputy Foreign Minister Igor Morgulov, will meet in Tokyo next week to discuss the longstanding territorial dispute over the islands, called the Northern Territories by Japan and the Southern Kurils in Russia.

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