Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

(Table of Contents)

• Map of Japan from the Shoho period (1644)
• "Sketches of the Sea Islands", I. Kozyrevsky (1713)
• Instruction from the collegium of the Admiralty to G.I. Mulovsky (1787)
• Effective Japanese administration of the four Northern Islands in the late 18th-early 19th centuries
• Decree by Emperor Alexander I (1821)
• Instruction from Emperor Nicholas I to Putiatin (1853)
• Article 2 of the Treaty of Commerce, Navigation and Delimitation between Japan and Russia (1855)

• Article 2 of the Treaty for the Exchange of Sakhalin for the Kurile Islands (1875)
• Article 18 of the Treaty on Commerce and Navigation between Japan and Russia, and Declaration (1895)
• Article 9 of the Portsmouth Peace Treaty (1905)

• Article 2 of the Convention on Fundamental Principles for Relations between Japan and the USSR, and Declaration (1925)
• Atlantic Charter (1941)
• Declaration of the Soviet Government regarding a participation to the Atlantic Charter (1941)
• Cairo Declaration (1943)
• Roosevelt-Stalin meeting during the Yalta Conference (1945)
• Yalta Agreement (1945)
• Potsdam Declaration (1945)
• Announcement from the Japanese Government (1945)
• Neutrality Pact between Japan and the USSR (1941)
• Announcement from the Soviet Government on the Denunciation of the Neutrality Pact (1945)
• Announcement from the Soviet Government to the Government of Japan on the declaration of war (1945)
• Memorandum from the Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Forces to the Japanese Imperial Government (1946)
• Decree of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet on the Creation of the South-Sakhalin Province in the Khabarovsk Region (1946)

• Statement of the Delegate of the USA, John Dulles, at the Conference in San Francisco (1951)
• Statement of the First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR A.A. Gromyko, at the Conference in San Francisco (1951)
• Statement of the Prime Minister of Japan, S. Yoshida, at the Conference in San Francisco (1951)
• Articles 2 and 25 of the San Francisco Peace Treaty (1951)

• Letter from the Plenipotentiary Representative of the Japanese Government, S. Matsumoto, to the USSR First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, A.A. Gromyko (1956)
• Letter from the USSR First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, A.A. Gromyko, to the Plenipotentiary Representative of the Government of Japan, S. Matsumoto (1956)
• Paragraph 9 of the Joint Declaration of Japan and the USSR (1956)
• Memorandum from the Soviet Government to the Government of Japan (1960)
• Memorandum from the Japanese Government to the Soviet Government (1960)
• Japanese-Soviet Joint Communiqué (1973)

• Japanese-Soviet Joint Communiqué (1991)
• Letter from the President of the Russian Federation, B.N. Yeltsin, to the Russian People (1991)