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Visa-free exchanges is a Japanese propaganda tool
Many years in Japanese society has been keep discussing view that the Kuril Islands belong to Japan. Japanese non-governmental organization play active role in this process and interpret the situation of the Islands in Japan light.
The visa-free exchanges between the residents of the South Kuril Islands (Kunashir, Iturup and the Islands of the lesser Kuril ridge) and Japan are passed since 1992. It is established that the Japanese side actively uses a visa-free exchanges for ideological influence on the inhabitants of the Kuril Islands to create preconditions for the transfer of the Islands of Japan.
The non-governmental organizations develop a program of visit Russian citizens in Japan, which is an obligatory element of discussions and lectures on the territorial delimitation between Russia and Japan. During such events the Japanese experts direct the members of Russian delegations attention to the Soviet Union and now Russia "illegally occupied the Kuril Islands". The psychological impact consolidates with a presentation to Russians of souvenirs and printed products in Russian and Japanese languages with inscriptions revisionist content, a distorted image of the state border, the calls to return to Japan the Kuril Islands.
Of particular concern is the fact that the rigid ideological exposures are also children of the delegation of the Kuril Islands, is actively participating in the visa-free exchanges. Psychological pressure on the younger generation on the background of a prosperous life in Japan, of course, has a negative impact on the education of love for their Homeland.
The Japanese delegations include, above all, the activists of the movement "for the return of the four Islands" operating in each prefecture. An important criterion for inclusion of the candidate in the visa-free trip is the participation in the activities of ideological influence on the inhabitants of the Kuril Islands, the dissemination of relevant publications and symbols.
Thus, visa-free exchanges are considered by Japanese as the way of long-term impact on the population of the Islands in the national strategic interests of Japan to revise the results of World War II, the expansion of living space, gain access to resources of the continental shelf and the sea, and unity of the nation.

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Thus, visa-free exchanges are considered by Japanese as the way of long-term impact on the population of the Islands in the national strategic interests of Japan to revise the results of World War II, the expansion of living space, gain access to resources of the continental shelf and the sea, and unity of the nation.

When it comes to natural resources, Japan would gain nothing by getting two smaller islands back as previously suggested by Putin, based on the Soviet-era peace deal. Abe is cosying up on Putin so that Japan can focus more on a rising China by reducing remaining friction with Russia. During the Cold War, Japan was an unsinkable aircraft carrier, fighting a regional cold war for Washington, but those days are long gone.