Article from the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the state's claim of the Sakhalin and the Kurile Islands which it refers to as the Northern Territories.
Overview of history and discovery of Sakhalin Island (Karafuto), one of the territories still disputed between Japan and Russia from a Japanese perspective.
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... e əstrʌˈva]) or Kurile Islands in Russia's Sakhalin Oblast region, is a volcanic ... Biodiversity and Biogeography of the Kuril Islands and Sakhalin. ...
... islands were not researched objectively; secondly, Sakhalin and ... Thus, Japan not only left but secured their positions on Sakhalin and Kurile Islands. ...
These islands were formed from volcanic activity from the Miocene-Pliocene and mid-Pleistocene. ... tip of Sakhalin, and the Kurile Islands of Kunashir, Iturup ...
... in the vicinity of the Sakhalin and Kurile Islands prior to the time of the treaty's conclusion. ... territory and Sakhalin Island becoming Russian ...
... peoples of the island are the Sakhalin Ainu, Oroks, and Nivkhs. ... "The Prehistory of Sakhalin and the Kurile Islands - at the Sakhalin Regional Museum ...
SAKHALIN AND KURILE ISLANDS. The Sakhalin and the Kurile Islands are located ... to an exciting adventure tours throughout the Sakhalin and the Kurile Islands! ...
... Broadleaf and Mixed Forests > South Sakhalin-Kurile mixed forests ... the southwest tip of Sakhalin, and the Kurile Islands of Kunashir, Iturup and Shikotan. ...
"The territories of Southern Sakhalin and the Kurile Islands are to be established as ... part of the Sakhalin Island, with all the islands adjacent to that ...