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The evacuation of Karafuto (Sakhalin) and the Chishima (kuril) islands refers to the events that took place during the Pacific theater of World War II as the Japanese population left these areas, to August 1945 in the northwest of the main islands of Japan.
In August and September 1945 almost a quarter of Karafuto’s inhabitants left through this mass evacuation and through individual flight. The evacuation separated families as men were ordered to remain, while mostly women, children and the elderly were evacuated. The evacuees arrived in Hokkaido where they struggled to rebuild their lives.
Karafuto Line On 11 August, the Soviet 16th Army commenced the ground invasion from northern Sakhalin of the southern portion of Sakhalin Island controlled by Japan. The Soviet advance was halted by the strenuous Japanese defense of the Karafuto Fortress defense line.
- 11-25 August 1945(2 weeks)
- Soviet victory
- Sakhalin Island
The evacuation of Karafuto (Sakhalin) and the Chishima (kuril) islands refers to the events that took place during the Pacific theater of World War II as the Japanese population left these areas, to August 1945 in the northwest of the main islands of Japan.
The evacuation of Karafuto and the Kuriles refers to the events that took place as the Japanese population left these areas, to the north-west of the main islands of Japan, inAugust 1945. (Simultaneously Chosen , Kwantung and Manchukuo were being evacuated by Japanese civilians.)
Karafuto Line On 11 August, the Soviet 16th Army commenced the ground invasion from northern Sakhalin of the southern portion of Sakhalin Island controlled by Japan. The Soviet advance was halted by the strenuous Japanese defense of the Karafuto Fortress defense line.
Karafuto Prefecture. Karafuto Agency, from 1943 Karafuto Prefecture, [a] commonly known as South Sakhalin, was a part of the Empire of Japan on Sakhalin, it was part of the gaichi from 1907 to 1943 and later a prefecture as part of the naichi until 1945. Karafuto became a territory of the Empire of Japan in 1905 after the Russo-Japanese War ...
