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  1. Karafuto became a territory of the Empire of Japan in 1905 after the Russo-Japanese War, when the portion of Sakhalin south of 50°N was ceded from the Russian Empire in the Treaty of Portsmouth. Karafuto was established in 1907 as an external territory, until being upgraded to an "Inner Land" of the Japanese metropole in 1943.

  2. Sep 27, 2022 · In 1912 the first Junior High school (gymnasium) in Karafuto was opened in Ōtomari(Ōdomari). In April 1925, a secondary school was opened in Toyohara, and in 1927 in Maoka. In 1920 the Educational Reform in Karafuto made all primary schools municipal and established a single public elementary school system funded by the local government.

  3. Jan 1, 1998 · Following Japan’s victory over Russia in 1905, by the Treaty of Portsmouth Sakhalin was divided at the 50th parallel. While the northern section remained Russian, the Japanese colony of Karafuto was established on the southern part of the island.

  4. On 11 August, the Soviet 16th Army commenced the ground invasion from northern Sakhalin Island of the southern portion of Sakhalin controlled by Japan. The Soviet advance was halted by the strenuous Japanese defense of the Karafuto Fortress line.

    • 11-25 August 1945(2 weeks)
    • Soviet victory
    • Sakhalin Island
  5. Karafuto Agency, from 1943 Karafuto Prefecture, 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.

  6. Sep 27, 2022 · This book focuses on the Japanese and Korean populations of Southern Sakhalin (Karafuto). However, to understand the interaction between these ethnic groups in post-war Sakhalin and the formation of their multilayered identity, it is necessary to consider the island’s history as a whole.

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  8. Sep 27, 2022 · On November 19, 1946, the USSR and USA reached an agreement regarding the repatriation of Japanese. From December 1946 to July 1949, 279,356 Japanese civilians and soldiers were repatriated from Karafuto (Nakayama, 2015, p. 28). On September 23 1945, the Civil Administration was formed on Sakhalin.

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