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But then Japan is not a dictatorship, demanding absolute obedience and killing its own people for the slightest critique of the government. I have always wondered how the communism of the time could ever accept a state like North Korea as having anything to do with "communism"? Ah, Stalin.. if you call a one-man-dictatorship "communism" it makes "sense", ok. in astrict sense, the "Soviet" Union never had anything to do with communism.
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Asians are strange and exotic beings, Chinese built what they call communism without socialism (ie pensions).
And yes, Soviet claim was that we were building communism via advanced socialism.
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*edit: ok it is about the Kurils, sorry. And a treaty ending the war has been signed between Russia, and Japan in 1956. Seems there are current talks about the islands in qustion, Putin will travel to Japan in december 2017, to talk about that once more.
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I think the way it worked is that the resolving treaty framework was indeed set up, but Japanese denounced it in the 60s (with the US backing) in the sense that they wanted the Kurills back that they have ceded earlier. We ofc had none of that nonsense and we still wont transfer soverenity over.
Ever since Japanese were playing "northern territories" card in the internal policy, while having a decent relationship with Russia (fishing problems non withstanding).
Current efforts appear to be focused on actually reaching some sort of enduring compromise regarding Kurills, as abandoning them is a political suicide for both sides.