Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's November visit to Kunashiri Island was an "unforgivable outrage," Prime Minister Naoto Kan said Monday at the annual government-sponsored rally in Tokyo to demand the return of territory seized by the Soviets at the end of World War II.
Medvedev's trip was the first made by leader from Moscow to one of the four Russian-held islands, the return of which Kan called "an extremely important matter for Japan's diplomacy."
Like his predecessors, Kan meanwhile vowed to continue negotiating with Moscow to get the islands back.