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  1. For convenience, the northern part of the island was sometimes called Sagaren. In Russian, the entire island was named Sakhalin or Saghalien. It is from Manchu sahaliyan ula angga hada, meaning "peak of the mouth of Amur River". The southern part was simply called Yuzhny Sakhalin ("South Sakhalin").

  2. The origins of the traditional Japanese name, Karafuto (Japanese: 樺太), are unclear and multiple competing explanations have been proposed. These include [ 14 ] : A borrowing of Mongolian karahoton , meaning "distant fortress".

  3. Four major events shaped the history of Sakhalin Island: the Treaty of St Petersburg of 1875, which de-bordered the island from the traditional international system of East Asia and incorporated it into the modern international system of the West; the Russo-Japanese War of 1905, which resulted in the Japanese acquisition of the southern half of ...

  4. For convenience, the northern part of the island was sometimes called Sagaren. In Russian, the entire island was named Sakhalin or Saghalien. It is from Manchu sahaliyan ula angga hada, meaning "peak of the mouth of Amur River". The southern part was simply called Yuzhny Sakhalin ("South Sakhalin").

  5. Aug 15, 2020 · When Japan gained control of the southern half of Sakhalin (which they called Karafuto), just four years after Hawes’ visit to the island, Japanese officials and educators suddenly became aware of the large lacunae in their knowledge of this new colony, and there was a brief boom in Japanese publications about the island.

  6. Jan 1, 1998 · Mariya Sevela gathers oral recollections from the people of Karafuto, a Japanese colony on the island of Sakhalin from 1905 until the arrival of the Soviet army forty years later. The island of Sakhalin in the Sea of Okhotsk is a microcosm of Russo-Japanese relations.

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  8. Aug 3, 2011 · Between 1905 and 1945, the Japanese invested heavily in southern Sakhalin, which they called Karafuto. They built railways and factories including a big pulp and paper plant. But apart from the...

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