1st Edition

Voices from the Shifting Russo-Japanese Border Karafuto / Sakhalin

262 Pages 30 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

262 Pages 30 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

262 Pages 30 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

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In the nineteenth century, as the Russian empire expanded eastwards and the Japanese empire expanded onto the Asian continent, the Russo-Japanese border became contested on and around the island of Sakhalin, its Russian name, or Karafuto, as it is known in Japanese. Then in the wake of the Second World War, Russia seized control of the island and the Japanese inhabitants were deported.... Read more

Introduction, Svetlana Paichadze and Philip Seaton Part I: Borderland Societies Pre-1945 1. Japanese Society on Karafuto, Taisho Nakayama 2. Borders, Borderlands and Migration in Sakhalin and the Priamur Region: a Comparative Study, Igor Saveliev Part II: Postwar Population Movements 3. Occupation-era Hokkaido and the Emergence of the Karafuto Repatriate: the Role of Repatriate Leaders, Jonathan Bull 4. Soviet Rule in South Sakhalin and the Japanese Community, 1945-9, Yuzuru Tonai 5. Returning from Harbin: Northeast Asia, 1945, David Wolff Part III: Reconstructing Narratives of Karafuto/Sakhalin 6. Memories Beyond Borders: Karafuto Sites of Memory in Hokkaido, Philip Seaton 7. Homecoming Visits to Karafuto: How Is Home (Furusato) Reconstructed After a Long Absence?, Masatoshi Miyashita 8. Russia’s ‘Last Barren Islands’: The Southern Kurils and the Territorialisation of Regional Memory, Paul Richardson Part IV: Postwar Lives and Returning 'Home' 9. Dreams of Returning to the Homeland: Koreans in Karafuto and Sakhalin, Yulia Din 10. Multi-layered Identities of Returnees in their ‘Historical Homeland’: Returnees from Sakhalin, Mooam Hyun and Svetlana Paichadze 11. Language, Identity and Educational Issues of ‘Repatriates’ from Sakhalin, Svetlana Paichadze