Nippon Paper Cranes eliminated in overtime in Game 3 of Asia League Ice Hockey final
The Nippon Paper Cranes finished runner-up in the Asia League Ice Hockey on Thursday after losing their final game before their disbandment to Russian team Sakhalin. The Cranes brought down the curtain on their 70-year history after suffering a 4-3 overtime loss in Game 3 ...
Diary offers rare glimpse into Japan's early 20th century battles in Russia
A diary kept by a member of the Imperial Japanese Navy, recounting fierce battles in Siberia when Japan dispatched troops there in the early 20th century, was recently unearthed by Kyodo News. There are few detailed accounts of the war by Japanese troops, with historians ...
Japan, Russia vow to step up joint economic project talks on disputed islands
Senior officials from Japan and Russia's Sakhalin Island confirmed Wednesday that both Tokyo and Moscow will step up dialogue for potential joint economic projects on disputed islands off Hokkaido controlled by Moscow but claimed by Tokyo. "If both Japanese and Russians imagine that they will ...
Electricity to be restored on Sakhalin Island after three-day outage
Residents on the Russian island of Sakhalin face restored electricity supplies on Saturday, three days after an outage plunged most of the island into darkness. A power transmission line failed in the early hours on Wednesday, leaving 12 districts without electricity, including the towns of ...
Russia's government announces yet another set of impotent plans to develop its long-neglected Pacific region.
Russian oil tanker runs aground off Sakhalin, spills part of load
Cleanup operations are underway on the Russian island of Sakhalin after a tanker laden with oil grounded close to a fishing port, ripping open at least one of its tanks and polluting several kilometers of coastline. The tanker Nadezhda struck a reef during a storm ...
Hokkaido photographer documents neighboring Sakhalin
Photographer Masayoshi Saito has spent the past decade shooting the rugged expanses of Sakhalin Island, with the hope that his images will create better understanding between the Russian and Japanese people. Saito, 60, a retired local government official in Hokkaido, has had to overcome barriers ...
Historic Japan-Sakhalin seabed cables now damaged, hazards to fishermen
Disused undersea telecommunications cables from before the war are becoming a headache for fishermen in Hokkaido when they inadvertently hook sections lying on the seabed, tearing their nets. Historians nevertheless are pleased to see the artifacts from Japanese prewar history. For Yasushi Shimizu, 42, an ...
Russia ties deepening over energy, security
Just 160 km from the northern tip of Hokkaido, Sakhalin is a desolate island that has long been ignored by world powers. Remnants of Japanese shrines are reminders that the island was governed by Imperial Japan until the end of World War II. Now this ...
Restaurateur illuminates thanks for Sakhalin locals
Yutaka Miyanishi felt a strong sense of gratitude when he discovered, during a visit to the former Soviet Union, that local people were tending the graves and looking after a cemetery where Japanese soldiers who died in labor camps after World War II are ...
A U.S. firm has won an order for a wind power plant to be built on Kunashiri Island, one of the four-Russian held islands Japan wants returned, a senior Sakhalin Province official said Friday. Sakhalin Machinery LLC, owned by Alabama-based Tiger Machinery LLC, received the ...
