MOSCOW. Jan 28 (Interfax) - A minister counsellor from the Japanese Embassy in Moscow was summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry on Tuesday, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement on its website.
"During the conversation, the attention of the Japanese diplomat was drawn to the opening with the support of official authorities of a permanent exposition in Tokyo on January 21, entitled Territory and Sovereignty, which displays, among other things, propagandist material supposedly substantiating Japan's territorial claims to the southern Kurils," the statement said.
"Having pointed out the incontestability of the sovereignty of the Russian Federation over this territory, we stressed that such actions on the part of Japan run counter to the agreement between our countries' leaders to create a positive atmosphere in bilateral relations. We also see it as an attestation of the reluctance of our Japanese partners to acknowledge fully the results the Second World War."