During the 1956 peace talks between Japan and the Soviet Union, the Soviet side proposed to settle the dispute by returning Shikotan and Habomai to Japan.
在1956年的日苏和谈期间,苏联提出通过将色丹和齿舞归还日本解决争议。
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" The State Department later clarified that "the Habomai Islands and Shitokan … are properly part of Hokkaido and that Japan is entitled to sovereignty over them".