The Russian president and Japanese prime minister are meeting to try to resolve the decades-old dispute over the Kuril islands. For the full video on the background to the tensions go to http://on.ft.com/2hFmZlg | Financial Times

1M views · 5.9K reactions | The Kuril Islands are an island chain between Japan and Russia. The Soviet Union occupied four of the islands in 1945. 77 years later, Japan still hasn’t given up its claim to the territories. | Sunday Roast | Facebook

23K views · 292 reactions | WATCH: A tsunami has hit coastal areas of Russia’s Kuril Islands and Japan’s large northern island of Hokkaido after a powerful, 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Russia early Wednesday, July 30. ctto WION | Jafun | Facebook

Cargo ship in storm at Kuril islands | Merchant Navy