Heart-wrenching but inspiring story of romance emerges as 96 year old Japanese ex-PoW pens emotional last letter to his dead Russian wife.
All Nippon Airways tours Tolmachevo and says it meets with high standards required to deal with planes that divert between Japan and Europe.
Special testing kits sent to Sochi amid 'fears from Japan' and other countries over risk from deliberate deadly disease strike.
Russian president hints at possible future 'compromises' on dispute over the islands, as 2nd Eastern Economic Forum opens in Vladivostok.
Moscow has confirmed moves to modernise its military presence on islands over which Japan claims sovereignty.
Ten fishermen stayed alive in their life raft by casting off the 'dead bodies' of eight crew mates who froze to death in raging seas.
Located close to border region pivotal in war with Japan, experts say the pass was used to exchange intelligence.
Bid to put Russian island on the world's surfing map.
Shilka became a global star last year in her pen in Novosibirsk but now she is set to be big in Japan after bid to keep her in Russia fails.