The northern territories
Start just 7 KM off the coast of Japan

The dispute has now
Passed on through two generations

Stalin ordered the expulsion
Of one of the island's 17,000 residents

The man who grew up there
He wants to return

Japan will not accept
The loss of the islands

I would like
For people
Of both nations
To co-exist there

For there to be
Co-ownership
Of the territories

But that will never happen

Just another territorial dispute
Here on planet earth