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  • There is a website on Sakhalin-Alaska development where a search on "Sakhalin" returns a long list of links and also one on Sakhalin which is also known as Karafuto in Japanese.

    Sakhalin Koreans and Business Development « Far Outliers 2004

  • For those more culturally inclined, there is a fairly good museum housed in a Japanese building from when Sakhalin Island was called Karafuto and Yuzhno was called Toyohara.

    TravelPod.com Recent Updates 2008

  • For those more culturally inclined, there is a fairly good museum housed in a Japanese building from when Sakhalin Island was called Karafuto and Yuzhno was called Toyohara.

    TravelPod.com Recent Updates 2008

  • Tessa Morris-Suzuku of Australian National University perhaps the most widely known Australian historian of Japan presented a paper on colonial Karafuto, one of many topics she is currently researching.

    2007: Japan Top Ten Year in Review 2007

  • Tessa Morris-Suzuku of Australian National University perhaps the most widely known Australian historian of Japan presented a paper on colonial Karafuto, one of many topics she is currently researching.

    Japanese History Workshop, Part II 2007

  • Tessa Morris-Suzuku of Australian National University perhaps the most widely known Australian historian of Japan presented a paper on colonial Karafuto, one of many topics she is currently researching.

    Japanese History Workshop, Part II 2007

  • Tessa Morris-Suzuku of Australian National University perhaps the most widely known Australian historian of Japan presented a paper on colonial Karafuto, one of many topics she is currently researching.

    井の中の蛙 » Japanese History Workshop, Part II » Print 2007

  • Russians landed on the west coast of what is known as Saghalien, but was known and owned by the Japanese under the name of Karafuto.

    The Story of Russia R. Van Bergen

  • For many years the efforts to secure the whole island of Karafuto (p.  274) continued and Japan saw that war must follow unless a sacrifice was made.

    The Story of Russia R. Van Bergen

  • Both he and Poutiatine tried to induce the Japanese to give up Karafuto (Saghalien), but without success.

    The Story of Russia R. Van Bergen

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