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SAKHALIN

Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 15, 2014
Russia ties deepening over energy and 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.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 4, 2013
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 buried.
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 30, 2013
U.S. firm to build wind power plant on Kunashiri
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.

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