Karafuto Prefecture
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Karafuto Prefecture was established by the Empire of Japan in 1907 to govern the southern part of Sakhalin. This territory became part of the Empire of Japan in 1905 after the Russo-Japanese War, when
The Karafuto Prefectural Office in Toyohara
A Japanese soldier at the border between the Karafuto Prefecture and Soviet Sakhalin
This Japanese D51 steam locomotive stands outside the present day Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk Railway Station, Sakhalin Oblast, Russia. They were used by the Soviet Railways until 1979.
Ainu in Russia
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The Ainu in Russia are an Indigenous people of Siberia located in Sakhalin Oblast, Khabarovsk Krai and Kamchatka Krai. The Russian Ainu people, also called Kurile, Kamchatka's Kurile or Eine, can be s
Karafuto Ainu house at the Colonisation Exposition in Tokyo, 1912
Sakhalin Ainu chief, c. 1885–1899
Ainu in the Northern Kuril Islands in front of traditional pit-houses, 1899
Kuril Ainu people within their traditional dwelling, 1903