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  2. 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.

  3. Asian and Pacific theatre of World War I - Wikipedia

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    During World War I, conflict on the Asian continent and the islands of the Pacific included naval battles, the Allied conquest of German colonial possessions in the Pacific Ocean and China, the anti-Russian Central Asian revolt of 1916 in Russian Turkestan and the Ottoman-supported Kelantan rebellion in British Malaya.

  4. 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.

  5. Japanese invasion of Sakhalin - Wikipedia

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    Japan and Russia had previously shared ownership of Sakhalin; however, the Japanese relinquished their claims in the 1875 Treaty of Saint Petersburg in exchange for undisputed sovereignty over all of the Kuril Islands. By 1904, Sakhalin had an estimated 30,000 inhabitants, including around 4,000 Ainu. [1]

  6. Timeline of World War I - Wikipedia

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    "World War One Timeline". UK: BBC. "New Zealand and the First World War (timeline)". New Zealand Government. "Timeline: Australia in the First World War, 1914-1918". Australian War Memorial. "World War I: Declarations of War from around the Globe". Law Library of Congress. "Timeline of the First World War on 1914-1918-Online.

  7. 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

  8. Territorial disputes of Japan - Wikipedia

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    The rest of the Kuril Islands came under Japanese rule after the 1875 Treaty of Saint Petersburg and the end of the Russo-Japanese War in 1905. They would remain under the Japanese until the end of World War II, when the Soviet Union annexed the islands as the result of a military operation which took place during and after the Surrender of ...

  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.