Kurilsk
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Kurilsk is a town and the administrative center of Kurilsky District of Sakhalin Oblast, Russia, located on the island of Iturup. Population: 2,070; 2,233; 2,699. It was originally a Japanese village
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New school in the city of Kurilsk, Iturup Island
Shana, Hokkaido
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Shana is a notional village administrative unit claimed by Japan in Shana District, Hokkaido. It is located on the island of Iturup in the disputed Northern Territories area of the Kuril Islands. It i
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…on the island of Iturup. Population: 2,070 (2010 census); 2,233 (2002 census); 2,699 (1989 Soviet census). It was originally a Japanese village named Shana (Japanese: 紗那村, Hepburn: Shana-mura). Ainu have been known to inhabit the present site of Kurilsk since the 2nd millennium BCE, with their settlement…
Shana Village in Etorofu, before 1945