According to the Japanese expert, in order to resume any constructive dialogue, the sides should raise public awareness of real progress on the post-war negotiations between the two countries
"The Japanese prime minister’s words about the sovereignty of the Southern Kuril Islands cannot change the existing status-quo," Viktor Bondarev also noted
In his first program speech at a plenary session of the Japanese parliament’s lower house, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said that no peace treaty would be signed with Russia until the territorial dispute was settled