Source: United States & Canada – South China Morning PostTokyo is under growing pressure from Washington to support Kyiv in the unfolding crisis with Russia, even to the extent of imposing sanctions on Moscow should its forces invade Ukraine, although analysts warn that antagonising Russia would further damage Japan’s faint hopes of reaching an agreement on the sovereignty of islands off Hokkaido.Known in Japan as the Northern Territories and in Russia as the Southern Kurils, the islands were seized by the Soviet Union in the closing days of World…Read More