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| | Kuril Islands dispute - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Under Article 2c), Japan renounces all right, title and claim to the Kuril Islands, and to that portion of Sakhalin and the islands adjacent to it over which Japan acquired sovereignty as a consequence of the Treaty of Portsmouth of 5 September 1905. | | | However, the claims of the indigenous Ainu people to the islands have gone largely ignored by the Powers. | | | The disputed islands are currently under Russian administration as part of the Sakhalin Oblast, but are also claimed by Japan, which refers to them as the Northern Territories (北方領土) (Hoppo Ryodo) or Southern Chishima (南千島). |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuril_Island_conflict
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| | Case Study |
| | Ainu who lived in Hokkaido, the Kurile Islands and Sakhalin were called "Hokkaido Ainu," "Kurile Ainu" and "Sakhalin Ainu" respectively. | | | However, these islands, which are so close to Japan that they can be seen with the naked eye from Hokkaido, hardly seem to require any claim of discovery. | | | The second claim was that while the treaty acknowledged Etorofu, Kunashir, Shikotan and Habomai Islands to be Japanese territories, Russia could still claim historical rights to them as a result of having first discovered and explored them. |
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http://www.american.edu/projects/mandala/TED/ice/kurile.htm
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| | Kuril Islands: sea road to the deep north, by Guy-Pierre Chomette |
| | They have 26,000 children, some of whom were born on the islands but left while they were still small. | | | Witness the proposal made to former Japanese residents of the Kurils that they form joint working parties to identify former cemeteries. | | | But don’t ask me what those islands are called. |
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http://mondediplo.com/2001/09/06kuril
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| | Kuril Islands on Encyclopedia.com |
| | A historical reevaluation of America's role in the Kuril Islands dispute. | | | Land Novaya Zemlya Severnaya Zemlya New Siberian Islands Wrangel Island Queen Elizabeth Islands Baffin Island Victoria Island Banks Island Ellesmere Island Aleutian IslandsKurilIslands North Atlantic Ocean Norwegian Sea North Sea Greenland |
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http://encyclopedia.infonautics.com/html/K/KurilIsl.asp
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| | Spider Collector's Journal: Kuril Islands 1997 |
| | The archipelago is part of Russia, though the southernmost islands are claimed by Japan. | | | The 260 arachnid specimens did, however, include one spider and one harvestman species new to the island. | | | And on this high note, we bid the north Kuril Islands farewell. |
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http://crawford.tardigrade.net/journal/Journal08.html
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| | Asia Times Online - The trusted news source for information on Japan |
| | Not a few of them who failed to escape from those islands are believed to have been sent to Siberia and Central Asia as forced laborers, in effect receiving a death sentence. | | | But the United States has actually supported Japan's claim to the four islands for years in the post-war period. | | | But they did not address the specifics of the dispute over the Russian-held islands off Hokkaido, the northernmost part of Japan. |
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http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Japan/FK25Dh01.html
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| | Kuril Islands |
| | Two of the Kurils (Etorofu and Kunashiri) are claimed by Japan for historical reasons; they are of strategic importance and have mineral deposits. | | | The Japanese view is that the islands are illegally occupied by Russia. | | | The Kurils were discovered in 1634 by a Russian navigator and were settled by Russians. |
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http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0017307.html
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| | ISN Security Watch - Japan rejects Russia's claims to Kuril Islands |
| | Putin said the islands were "under the sovereignty of the Russian Federation". | | | Japan responded by likewise claiming sovereignty over the islands, with Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroyuki Hosoda saying: âFrom the objective standpoint, the four northern islands belong to Japan, and we will keep claiming our sovereignty over them,â he said. | | | ISN Security Watch - Japan rejects Russia's claims to Kuril Islands |
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http://www.isn.ethz.ch/news/sw/details.cfm?ID=12975
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| | Steller Sea Lion Survey on Kuril and Iony Islands, Russia |
| | Movements of branded Steller sea lions born on the Kuril Islands in 1989-99. | | | The Kuril grouping of Steller sea lions has always been the most abundant on the Asian coast. | | | Later counts of Steller sea lions were carried out concurrently with surveys dedicated to research on northern fur seals (Callorhinus ursinus) and sea otter (Enhydra lutris). |
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http://www.afsc.noaa.gov/quarterly/ond2001/feature.htm
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| | Pacific Ocean - Kuril Islands |
| | Vulkan Alaid on the island of Atlasova claims the highest elevation of 2,339 m. | | | During the winter months the Sea of Okhotsk may become extensively blocked by ice floes and ice sheets that can block the coasts of the southern islands. | | | Climate is influenced by the Pacific on the east, the Sea of Okhotsk on the west and by air masses moving in from eastern Asia or the Bering Sea region. |
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http://www.oceandots.com/pacific/kuril
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| | SAKHALIN.RU: Sakhalin and the Kuriles. History |
| | The text of the San Francisco Treaty says that Japan "renounces its rights, privileges and claims to the Kurils and to that part of the island of Sakhalin and its adjoining islands over which Japan obtained sovereignty by the terms of the Treaty of Portsmouth". | | | Based on the information collected during the expedition I.P. Kozyrevskyi manages to compile his "Sketch of the Sea Islands", which included various information about most of the Kuril Islands, as well as Hokkaido and Japan. | | | The first people may have appeared on Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands. |
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http://www.sakhalin.ru/Engl/Region/history.htm
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| | JRL 3-19-02 - Russia, Japan, Kuril Islands |
| | There has been growing speculation in Russia that the government is engaged in behind-the-scenes negotiations to return two of the islands while continuing talks about the other two in line with a proposal by Tokyo last month that the sides should adopt a "two-plus-two" approach. | | | Rogozin told deputies the islands were important "in protecting Russia's security interests" and said the 1956 pledge had been an "obvious mistake." | | | The statement included a clause in which Moscow pledged to hand over two of four southern Kuril islands seized by Soviet troops at the end of the war, Shikotan and Habomai, once a formal peace treaty was concluded. |
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http://www.cdi.org/russia/johnson/6142-8.cfm
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| | BBC News Asia-Pacific Relations thaw over Kuril Islands |
| | Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov described the plan as an attempt to create "conditions on the Kuril islands to ensure favourable terms for joint economic activities on the islands without detriment to state interests and political positions of the two sides". | | | Our correspondent says that officials have expressly dismissed suggestions that the aid would be linked to discussions on the future of the islands. | | | The Soviet claim over the Kuril islands has also marred trade relations between the two countries. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/asia-pacific/212865.stm
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| | BBC NEWS Asia-Pacific Russia makes overture on Kurils |
| | Koizumi restated Japan's claim to the Kuril islands in September | | | In a Russian television interview, Mr Lavrov said the present Russian government should live up to the commitment. | | | Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said his government recognises an undertaking made in 1956 to return two of the islands to Japan. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4011261.stm
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| | Kuril Islands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | There are 56 islands in total.Now, the opinion which should return Karafuto (Sakhalin) and the Chishima Islands(Kuril) to Japan and to carry out is also the world. | | | For the political history of the sovereignty conflict, see Kuril Islands dispute. | | | The Kuril Islands are known in Japanese as the Chishima Islands (Kanji: 千島列島 / Hepburn Romaji: Chishima rettō, literally, Thousand Islands Archipelago), also known as the Kuriru Islands (Kanji: クリル列島 / Hepburn Romaji: Kuriru rettō, literally, Kuril Archipelago). |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurile_Islands
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| | Channelnewsasia.com |
| | Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said "Japan cannot be content" with the return of two of the four islands just off northern Japan, which were seized by Soviet troops in 1945. | | | Japan snubs proposed Russian compromise on Kuril islands dispute | | | TOKYO: Japan said it wanted Russia to return all four Kuril islands, snubbing Moscow's renewed talk of returning two of them to end the dispute that has prevented the countries from formally ending World War II. |
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http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/117400/1/.html
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| | Japan and Russia still talking over the Kuril Islands - Global Affairs Forum, Politics, Law, Science, Health |
| | As well as some HISTORY of the Kuril Islands: | | | Japan and Russia still talking over the Kuril Islands - Global Affairs Forum, Politics, Law, Science, Health | | | I think Russia should just give it back, in return for economic aid - I mean, she's lost a lot more territory after the Berlin Wall fell, and she needs money more than she needs land. |
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http://www.globalaffairs.org/forum/showthread.php?t=6295
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| | Visible Earth: Kuril Islands, Eastern Russia |
| | These islands are home to densepopulations of sea birds, sea otter, Orcas, minke whales, sea lions,seals, fish, crabs, and many other types of marine life. | | | Clouds movingfrom the Okhotskoye More (Sea of Okhotsk) in the upper left to thenorthern Pacific Ocean in the lower right are strained by theKuril’skiye Ostrova (Kuril Islands) in this true-color Terra MODISimage from September 17, 2002. | | | These islands are part of the Pacific Ring of Fire, a zone of frequentearthquakes and volcanic eruptions that runs from New Zealand, aroundAustralia and through Indonesia, up the eastern coast of Asia, along theAleutian Islands, and down the western coast of the Americas. |
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http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=4379
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| | Kuril Islands - Iturup |
| | Iturup is one of several islands lying at the southern end of the Kuril Chain that are claimed by Japan. | | | Like all the Kuril Islands, Iturup is a volcanic island. | | | The island is home to Kuril'sk — the main settlement of the Kuril Islands. |
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http://www.oceandots.com/pacific/kuril/iturup.htm
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| | The Russian Kuril Islands Expedition - Puffins! |
| | As I approach these islands I can see that they are made of dark volcanic basalt rock that rise up out of the cold dark sea. | | | The Kuril Islands are all the tops of underwater volcanoes. | | | The Kuril Islands have been made by underwater volcanoes that have grown taller and taller until the tops of the volcanoes stuck out of the water. |
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http://www.theoceanadventure.com/KIIE/KI4.html
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| | USA to help Japan take Kuril Islands away from Russia - PRAVDA.Ru |
| | Rumsfeld promised that the USA would help Japan discuss the Kuril Islands issue during US-Russian talks, as soon as an adequate possibility would appear, RIA Novosti reports. | | | This is what they think at the US administration, at least. | | | It is noteworthy that the above-mentioned four islands were a part of the Hokkaido Island prefecture before and during WWII – they had nothing in common with the Kuril Islands. |
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http://english.pravda.ru/printed.html?news_id=14721
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| | Military Thought: Kuril Islands and Russia's security |
| | Many well-known historians, jurists, political scientists and economists spoke in a professional and convincing way, expressing different points of view. | | | Public parliamentary hearings were recently held at the State Duma on the problem of the Kuril Islands. | | | This is undoubtedly taken into account in operational planning. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0JAP/is_3_11/ai_94329301
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| | BBC News ASIA-PACIFIC Kuril islands dispute deadlocked |
| | Russia and Japan on Monday signed a document aimed at promoting joint economic co-operation in the Kurils. | | | Japan had proposed that its borders be expanded to include the islands. | | | Occupied by Soviet troops in the dying days of World War II Japan and the Soviet Union restored diplomatic relations in 1956, but a formal peace treaty was never signed because of the dispute |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_910000/910648.stm
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| | Botanical Exploration in the Kuril Islands |
| | The specimens collected during this project, in conjunction with observational and other data collected, support inquiry into the floristics and phytogeography of the region. | | | Under the auspices of the International Kuril Island Project (1994-2000), a team of Russian, Japanese, and American botanists worked together on all major and most minor islands of the Kuril Archipelago. | | | The flora of the northern islands, more circumboreal to subarctic, exhibits tundra heaths and thickets of pine, alder, and birch. |
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http://depts.washington.edu/reecas/events/conf2001/abstr01/gage.htm
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| | Japan Rejects Putin’s Claims on Kuril Islands - NEWS - MOSNEWS.COM |
| | Japan Rejects Putin’s Claims on Kuril Islands - NEWS - MOSNEWS.COM | | | The Soviet army seized the islands after Japan& capitulation in World War II. | | | insistence on sovereignty over the Kuril Islands, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported on Wednesday. |
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| | No caldera-forming eruptions have been noted during historic time. | | | In the Kuriles there are at least 85 separate Quaternary volcanoes and volcanic groups, of which sixty have erupted during the Holocene and thirty- seven since the eighteenth century. | | | A fauna of middle Miocene to Pliocene age is found here. |
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http://www.sveurop.org/gb/articles/articles/Kuril.htm
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| | QUAT 504a: |
| | 2003, “International Kuril Island Paleobigeography Project” NSF proposal and | | | Modeling paleoclimate and sea ice variation in the | | | Modeling ecology, demography, and society in island settings |
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| | Kurile (Kuril) Islands |
| | Although Russia and Japan were not officially at war, they were receiving lend-lease from America. | | | Japanese fortified the Kurile Islands, and were the target of American attacks from bases in Alaska, in a strategic effort to tie down Japanese forces in the far north. | | | As early as November 22, 1941 Japanese ships began assembling in the Kurlile Islands area, for the secret 'Hawaiin Operation' the attack on Pearl Harbor. |
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| | Kuril Islands reveal tourist potential |
| | The four southernmost islands in the Kuril chain were seized by the Soviet Union during the closing days of World War II, and since then Japan has tried to regain the islands of Kunashir, Iturup, Shikotan, and the Habomai islet group, referred to as the Northern Territories. | | | The project requires 900 million rubles and the Sakhalin administration is currently considering ways to finance this project, the press release said. | | | “Not many people may be aware of the fact that the Kuril Islands have a much higher crime rate than Sakhalin,” the newspaper writes, echoing the belief that most Sakhaliners regard certain islands like Kunaishir as an extension of the wild North Sakhalin. |
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http://bus.fareast.ru/eng/news/5
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| | Tours in Kuril islands. Kuriles-Tour Co. Ltd. |
| | The Kuril islands are a part of the Pacific ring of volcanoes. | | | Information about Kuril islands — maps, history, photos and others. | | | The mysterious Kuril islands is paradise for any romantic traveller. |
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http://www.kuriles-tour.ru/english
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| | RIA Novosti - Russia - Border guards start Kuril Islands expedition |
| | Soviet troops landed on the northern Shumshu Island, a Japanese stronghold (after the defeat of the Russian Empire in the Russian-Japanese War of 1904-1905 the Kuril Islands and southern Sakhalin were under the Japanese rule). | | | The 1945 Kuril landing operation was conducted from August 18 to September 1, involving troops of the Kamchatka defense area, vessels of the Petropavlovsk (Kamchatka) naval base and the 128th air division. | | | After Japan's defeat in World War II, the Soviet Union regained the Kuril Islands and southern Sakhalin. |
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| | IKIP Results: Entomofauna of the Kuril Islands |
| | Previous investigations of the entomofauna of the Kuril Islands | | | Ecological and geographical essay on the entomofauna of the Kuril Islands | | | Zoogeographical characteristics of the entomofauna of the Kuril Islands |
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| | Kuril Islands |
| | The age of most ancient geological structures in the island is about 10 mln years. | | | Dr.Znamensky had started his research in 1960-es yet. | | | Previous research: Scientists from the Institute of Geology of Ore Deposits (Russian Academy of Sciences - IGEM RAS), Moscow State University and other institutions had been working there for long period. |
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http://www.ecotours.ru/english/tours/scien1.htm?&print=yes
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| | IKIP Homepage |
| | The International Kuril Island Project is an international collaboration of American, Russian, and Japanese scientists to survey the plants, insects, spiders, freshwater and terrestrial mollusks, freshwater fishes, amphibians, and reptiles of the Kuril Archipelago. | | | This proposal resulted in a one year "proof of concept" award, (DEB-9400821, 15 July 1994--30 June 1995) and a "trial" expedition to the southern Kuril Islands in the summer of 1994. | | | The proposals submitted in all three countries were successful, but NSF funds (DEB-9505031) will provide primary support for the project over its lifetime, 1 May 1995--30 April 2000. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Related Items - Honshu |
| | It is the largest island in the Inland Sea, between the main islands of Shikoku and Honshu, with an area of... |
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| | EO Natural Hazards: Eruption of Chikurachki Volcano in Kuril Islands |
| | The height and motion of the ash and gas plume from the April 22, 2003, eruption of the Chikurachki volcano is portrayed in these views from the Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR). | | | Situated within the northern portion of the volcanically active Kuril Island group, the Chikurachki volcano is an active stratovolcano on Russia& Paramushir Island (just south of the Kamchatka Peninsula). | | | EO Natural Hazards: Eruption of Chikurachki Volcano in Kuril Islands |
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http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=10633
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| | Skiing the Pacific Ring of Fire and Beyond: Kamchatka & Kuril Islands |
| | There are about twenty major islands, all of which are the summits of stratovolcanoes which rise from the sea bed starting at depths of about 10000 ft (3000 m). | | | There is irregular ferry service to the other inhabited islands and no air service, so any trips there would probably require a private boat or floatplane for access. | | | Thus, despite the relatively modest elevations of the volcanoes of the Kurils, their true vertical rise is extremely large. |
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http://www.skimountaineer.com/ROF/Region.php?region=Kamchatka
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| | MSN Encarta - Kuril Islands |
| | Kuril Islands (Japanese Chishima-rettō, Russian Kuril'skiye Ostrova, from the word kurit,”to smoke”), chain of 56 large and small volcanic islands in... | | | Become a subscriber today and gain access to: |
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