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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Karafuto Prefecture, Taihoku Prefecture, Political Divisions of Taiwan, Shinchiku Prefecture, Takao Prefecture, Kokura Prefecture. Excerpt: Karafuto Prefecture Karafuto-ch) was the Japanese administrative division corresponding to Japanese territory on Sakhalin from 1905 1945. Through the Treaty of Portsmouth, the portion of Sakhalin south of 50°N became a colony of Japan in 1905. In 1907 the prefecture of Karafuto was established, with its capital at tomari (, now Korsakov) and later Toyohara (, now Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk). In 1945, with the defeat of Japan in World War II, the Japanese administration in Karafuto ceased to function, and since 1951, the southern part of Sakhalin has been a part of Russia. Japanese settlement on Sakhalin dates to at least the Edo period. tomari was established in 1679, and cartographers of the Matsumae domain mapped the island, and named it Kita-Ezo. Japanese cartographer and explorer Mamiya Rinzo established that Sakhalin was an island through his discovery of what is now named Mamiya Strait in 1809. Japan unilaterally proclaimed sovereignty over the whole island in 1845, but its claims were ignored by the Russian Empire. The 1855 Treaty of Shimoda acknowledged that both Russia and Japan had joint rights of occupation to Sakhalin, without setting a definite territorial demarcation. As the island became settled in the 1860s and 1870s, this ambiguity led to increasing friction between settlers. Attempts by the Tokugawa shogunate to purchase the entire island from the Russian Empire failed, and the new Meiji government was unable to negotiate a partition of the island into separate territories. In the Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1875), Japan agreed to give up its claims on Sakhalin in exchange for undisputed owners... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1040755
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Karafuto Prefecture, Taihoku Prefecture, Political Divisions of Taiwan, Shinchiku Prefecture, Takao Prefecture, Kokura Prefecture. Excerpt: Karafuto Prefecture Karafuto-ch) was the Japanese administrative division corresponding to Japanese territory on Sakhalin from 1905 1945. Through the Treaty of Portsmouth, the portion of ...