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The two airlines begin codesharing on flights between Russia and Japan on Thursday.

An expedition is underway to locate and analyse deposits of methane in  'underwater permafrost' in the seas of Okhotsk and Japan.

The magnificent male Siberian cat called Mir, a gift from Russian president Vladimir Putin, has completed quarantine at Narita international airport.

The magnificent male Siberian cat is 11 months old and has just completed five months quarantine at Narita international airport.

Flights from east of Russian resumed for the first time since last year's earthquake and tsunami which led to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.

Delegation of 69, including the representatives of 32 private companies, state and municipal structures arrived in the Southern Kurils.

Board a train in London and travel across Siberia all the way to Tokyo?

The documents are expected to help Japan understand the fate of thousands of PoWs in Siberia after the end of the Second World War.

Dmitry Medvedev promises economic and military development of territory disputed since the end of World War Two.

Japanese companies consider investment in railway extension via islands of Sakhalin and Hokkaido.