DTN News: Japan TODAY November 2, 2010 - Japan To Recall Envoy To Russia Over Isle Row....NSI News Source Info # 1179(NSI News Source Info) TOKYO/BEIJING - November 2, 2010: Japan said on Tuesday it was recalling its ambassador to Moscow temporarily to hear explanations about a row over disputed islands that is snarling ties with Russia.
Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan, struggling with a divided parliament and a fragile economy and now under fire for what critics call his mishandling of a similar row with China, got a fresh headache on Monday when Russian President Dmitry Medvedev visited one of four islands that both nations claim.
China told the United States on Tuesday to stay out of its row with Japan, saying it was strictly a bilateral affair.
Critics in Kan's own party as well as the opposition accuse Kan of caving in to Chinese demands by allowing the release of the captain, and it is one reason his support ratings have sunk to around 40 percent after just five months in office.
The dispute between Tokyo and Moscow concerns four islands off northern Japan that were occupied by troops of the former Soviet Union at the end of World War Two.
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