Declaration Quote by Vladimir Putin

Back in 1956, we signed a treaty and surprisingly it was ratified both by the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union and the Japanese…

— Vladimir Putin

It was also during my tenure of office that the Japanese Government agreed to the conclusion of a Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and signed it,…

— Eisaku Sato

Russia also declared its independence. This was approved by the Supreme Soviet, and you know and remember that there was the Declaration on the…

— Boris Yeltsin

In 2000 the then Prime Minister of Japan [Yoshirō Mori] asked me to return to this process, this conversation, these talks, and to do…

— Vladimir Putin

Based on a detailed investigation of all the facts and supported by the testimony of the surviving Japanese leaders involved, it is the Survey's…

— Paul Nitze

“No appeals to its outmoded constitution can change that. Japan must rearm and take its rightful place in the world.”

— Declan Hayes

“On the afternoon of August 9, hearing the news that Nagasaki had been bombed, Emperor Hirohito called an imperial conference at which his ministers…

— George Weller

At the request of my Japanese colleagues, in 2000 we revisited the possibility of signing a peace treaty based on the 1956 agreement.

— Vladimir Putin

Therefore, if one were to consider that there was virtually no possibility of success through the US-Japan negotiations, the military and economic pressures would…

— Hideki Tojo

I once said that it was unacceptable for Japan to remain "an isolated prosperous island." At one time, it might have been all right…

— Sadako Ogata

I do not want to speak about our cooperation with Japan now. Thank God, we have had no such problems there. Nor would we…

— Vladimir Putin

You recalled the 1956 declaration, and this declaration established the rules that should be followed by both sides and that should be put into…

— Vladimir Putin