I read Minoru Tanba 'Waga Gaiko Jinsei' (Chuokoronshinsha.)He says about 'three ifs' about Russian-held Japanese northern island.
They are 'if Prime Minister Hasimoto kept his position one more year', 'if President Yeltsin were safe from illness' and 'if there was not financial met down in Russia at 1998'
He thinks the territorial dispute would be resolved under those conditions 80% of the time.
The sprout of akakabu appears.
