Imagine losing a war in 1945 and still having to argue with a colour like it's a group chat you can't leave.

Japan protests new UN world map for colouring disputed islands as Russian

Japan has lodged a formal protest with the operator of the UN's newly adopted Equal Earth world map, which renders the disputed Kuril islands — the Northern Territories in Japanese parlance — in the same colour as Russia, which has controlled them since 1945. Tokyo backed the map's adoption last week. It now wants the depiction corrected.

Source: Japan protests new UN world map for colouring disputed islands as Russian — ABC News AU

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