The foreign ministers of Japan and Russia agreed Friday to begin joint economic projects on a group of disputed islands in earnest next year as a step toward signing a postwar peace treaty.Meeting on the sidelines of a ministerial gathering of the Group of 20 major economies in Nagoya, Toshimitsu Motegi and Sergey Lavrov agreed to continue discussions in mid-December in Moscow, Japan's Foreign Ministry said.The dispute over the sovereignty of the four islands off Hokkaido, called the Northern Territories in Japan and the Southern Kurils in Russia, has prevented the countries from signing a …READ FULL ARTICLE
