Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who is en route to Moscow for summit talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, is leaning toward accepting a postwar peace treaty between the two countries if two of the Russian-controlled four islands claimed by Japan are handed over, Japanese government sources said.Abe, hoping to reach a broad agreement on the peace treaty issue later this year, said he wants to take as much as time as possible for "candid" talks with Putin as he left for Moscow on Monday afternoon.The new approach now under consideration to settle the territorial dispute marks a departure f…READ FULL ARTICLE
