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- After victories in the First Sino-Japanese War (1894–1895) and the Russo-Japanese War (1904–1905), Japan gained control of Taiwan, Korea and the southern half of Sakhalin.Japan-Wikipedia
- As a result, Russia lost the part of Sakhalin Island south of 50 degrees North latitude (which became Karafuto Prefecture), as well as many mineral rights in Manchuria.Empire of Japan-Wikipedia
- The airliner had violated Soviet airspace just past the west coast of Sakhalin Island near Moneron Island, and the Soviets treated the unidentified aircraft as an intruding US spy plane.Cold War-Wikipedia
- Russia also signed over its 25-year leasehold rights to Port Arthur, including the naval base and the peninsula around it, and ceded the southern half of Sakhalin Island to Japan.Russo-Japanese War-Wikipedia
- The regions of Kamchatka and Northern Sakhalin remained under Japanese occupation until their treaty with the Soviet Union in 1925, when their forces were finally withdrawn.Russian Civil War-Wikipedia
- Of these 11 Governorates, 17 oblasts and 1 okrug (Sakhalin) belonged to Asian Russia.Russian Empire-Wikipedia
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