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Voices from the Shifting Russo-Japanese Border - Karafuto / Sakhalin (Paperback)
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Voices from the Shifting Russo-Japanese Border - Karafuto / Sakhalin (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
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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.
Sakhalin's history as a border zone makes it a lynchpin of
Russo-Japanese relations, and as such it is a rich case study for
exploring the key themes of this book: life in the borderlands,
migration, repatriation, historical memory, multiculturalism and
identity. With a focus on cross-border dialogue, Voices from the
Shifting Russo-Japanese Border reveals the lives of the ordinary
people in the border regions between Russia and Japan, and how they
and their communities have been affected by shifts in the
Russo-Japanese border over the past century-and-a-half. Examining
the lives and experiences of repatriates from Karafuto/Sakhalin in
contemporary Hokkaido and their contribution to the multicultural
society of Japan's northernmost island, the chapters cover the
border shifts in Karafuto/Sakhalin up until 1945, the immediate
aftermath the Second World War, the commemorative practices and
memories of those in both Japan and Eastern Russia, and, finally,
postwar lives by drawing extensively on interviews with people in
the communities affected most by the shifting border. This
interdisciplinary book will be of huge interest to students and
scholars across a broad range of subjects including Russo-Japanese
relations, Northeast Asian history, border studies, migration
studies, and the Second World War.
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