By NAOTAKA FUJITA/ Senior Staff Writer
May 22, 2020 at 07:00 JST
Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka, left, meets Leonid Brezhnev, leader of the Soviet Union, in the Kremlin on Oct. 8, 1973. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
In October 1973, Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka pressed Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev into admitting during a bilateral summit that a dispute over Japan's claim to the Northern Territories constituted one of the "problems" during work to draft a joint communique. [Read More]
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