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  2. Invasion of the Kuril Islands - Wikipedia

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    The landings on Iturup were continued by the 355th Rifle Division, which also landed on the smaller island of Urup. On 23 August, the 20,000-strong Japanese garrisons on the islands were ordered to surrender as part of the general surrender of Japan. However, some of the garrison forces ignored this order and continued to resist Soviet occupation.

  3. Kuril Islands dispute - Wikipedia

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    The whole island of Iturup belongs to Japan and the whole island Urup and the other Kuril Islands to the north constitute possessions of Russia". The islands of Kunashiri, Shikotan and the Habomai Islands, all lying to the south of Iturup, are not explicitly mentioned in the treaty and were understood at the time to be a non-disputed part of Japan.

  4. List of programs broadcast by the History Channel - Wikipedia

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    The Haunted History of Halloween; Heavy Metal; Heroes Under Fire; Hidden Cities; Hidden House History; High Hitler; High Points in History; Hillbilly: The Real Story; History Alive; History Films; History in Color; History Now; History of Angels [19] A History of Britain; A History of God [20] History of the Joke; The History of Sex; History ...

  5. List of territories acquired by the Empire of Japan - Wikipedia

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    All ports and major towns in the Primorsky Krai and Siberia regions of Russia east of the city of Chita, from 1918 until gradually withdrawing in 1922. [1] North Sakhalin was occupied by Japan 1920–1925. Japanese occupation of German colonial possessions. Japanese occupation of Mariana Islands, Marshall Islands, Palau Islands, Caroline Islands

  6. Russian-occupied territories - Wikipedia

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    The Kuril Islands dispute is a territorial dispute between Japan and the Russian Federation over the ownership of the four southernmost Kuril Islands. The four disputed islands, like other islands in the Kuril chain that are not in dispute, were annexed by the Soviet Union following the Kuril Islands landing operation at the end of World War II ...

  7. Russia in the First World War - Wikipedia

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    A Russian lady, assisted by a pope, a doctor and two maids, watches in a nightmare as the Imperial Army is defeated by Japan. Japanese drawing, 1904. The autocracy of the Romanov dynasty, which in the 19th century seemed to enjoy absolute authority, was increasingly called into question.

  8. Japan–Soviet Union relations - Wikipedia

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    Relations between the Soviet Union and Japan between the Communist takeover in 1917 and the collapse of Communism in 1991 tended to be hostile. Japan had sent troops to counter the Bolshevik presence in Russia's Far East during the Russian Civil War, and both countries had been in opposite camps during World War II and the Cold War.

  9. Japan during World War I - Wikipedia

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    Japan participated in World War I from 1914 to 1918 as a member of the Allies/Entente and played an important role against the Imperial German Navy.Politically, the Japanese Empire seized the opportunity to expand its sphere of influence in China, and to gain recognition as a great power in postwar geopolitics.