Spratlys islands has a lot of oil. And it has a lot of natural resources. That is why china wants is so badly,they are selfish and they want to own something eventhough it belongs to someone, they will force it. China is a big bully compared to the other countries.. the spratly islands really belongs to philippines...
The islands in the Pacific were important for both the Japanese and the Americans to maintain control of. Whoever was effectively able to control the islands in the Pacific could essentially control the shipping routes of the Pacific Great Circle.
Russia and Japan are officially still at war, and they have been since war was declared in the Second World War. However there hasn't been any military engagements between them since World War 2 ended.Russia and Japan refuse to sign a treaty ending the hostilities between them because of a territorial dispute over the Kuril Islands.
He wants to face his death with pride against Spaniards. And it's cool!
The ability to strike back at Japanese forces and retake all the Pacific islands that Japan had invaded.
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Invasion of the Kuril Islands happened on 1945-09-01.
The Kuril Islands are the islands that Russia controls northeast of Japan. The Kuril Islands are officially under the Russian jurisdiction.
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Russia administers the Kuril Islands, which are a chain of islands located in the Pacific Ocean. Japan also claims sovereignty over some of the islands, leading to a territorial dispute between the two countries.
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The Kuril Islands.
The Kuril Islands, which stretch from northern Japan to Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula, are in the western Pacific ocean. The body of water between the islands and mainland Asia is called the Sea of Okhotsk.