MOSCOW—Russia’s diplomatic outreach to Japan over a 70-year territorial dispute is aimed partly at securing a more valuable prize for the Kremlin: new political inroads with one of the U.S.’s biggest regional allies.
Wall Street Journal: Putin looks to play on US-Japan jitters
A picture taken on Dec. 12, 2016 shows a Russian Orthodox cross next to a Japanese gravestone at a cemetery outside Kurilsk town on the island of Iturup.
