My wife and I had a trip to Karafuto, what you call Sakhalin in Russia. I'll write about the trip in this blog bit by bit and arrange them in chronological order after the completion of a series of the trip memos. It will take a month to complete it.
Japan received the southern part of Sakhalin (Karafuto in Japanese) starting at a latitude of 50 degrees north and the associated islands from Russia in the Treaty of Portsmouth in 1905 in the wake of the Japanese-Russo War (1904-1905).
Since then, Karafuto developed its infrastructure, industries and residential environment. People lived their serene lives, but Karafuto was invaded by Russia 70 years ago. Russians have been occupying the land until today. Now it is globally called Sakhalin, but there's no logical and solid basis for their territorial possession. In this blog, I'll describe the names of places on Karafuto Island with Japanese names, which had been used by Japanese residents, like Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk as Toyohara, and like Korsakov as Oodomari.
We had to fly to Hokkaido at first and we used Japanese LCC, Peach Aviation for the first time to Kansai Airport to make connections. This company was established a few years ago and now its profits have soared along with its popularity. That's why I chose the company though I'm a priority member of ANA(All Nippon Airways). My review about Peach Aviation will be uploaded on the way home.
(Vocabulary)
北緯５０度以南の樺太は日本領、したがってこのブログでは日本名を使う
Karafuto (樺太) Sakhalin サハリン
Toyohara (豊原) Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk ユジノサハリンスク
Oodomari(大泊) Korsakov コルサコフ
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