Sakhalin

Tijeer de Graaf and Hidetoshi Shiraishi (2013) note that after the colonization process began, the number of Nivkh speakers started to decline, as it was dominated by languages of stronger nationalities, such as Russians (p. 56). The occupation of Sakhalin in 1945 did not positively influence the Nivkh language. New Soviet Union immigrants arrived to the island, and most of the Nivkh population had to shift from their native language to Russian. Here, social factor plays a major role in the language shift. As the colonization of the island went on, even such isolated communities as the Nivkh speakers, had to communicate with the Russian administration, using the new, dominant…

In Exile” is a short story written by Anton Chekhov and is based on his real life experiences. This is one of the few stories that arose directly from Chekhov 's extended trip to Sakhalin Island in 1890 (Coulehan). He carefully recorded the misery of the inhabitants of the five-hundred-mile long island by speaking up to 160 people each day (Gale). Chekhov tells a story of several men that are in exile and the exchange that takes place between two of the men. A third-person narrator tells us,…

In Choi Ki-young’s article “Forced Migration of Koreans to Sakhalin and Their Repatriation,” he argues that Sakhalin Korean were put in an awkward position that they were forced to leave their hometown to settle down in Sakhalin as soldiers, workers and comfort women under the colonization of Imperial Japan, but both Japanese government and South Korean government did not make obligated efforts to the repatriation of Sakhalin Korean to South Korea while Soviet government presented indifferent…

affected the way he observed the world, overall damaging his former outlook on the human race and expressing his experience through his works. During, Anton’s life he practiced in the field of medicine, during one journey, he went to the Island of Sakhalin to collect a census. “As a medical doctor, Chekov participated in the first effort to perform a census on Sakhalin Island.” (N) This island distressed Anton enough for his experience to come to an end as a documentary of the prisoners and…

(Статистики, 1992-2014) The preparation to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, which was held in Vladivostok city, brought significant impact to the economic development of the region. For this time the position of the Primorsky Krai in the investment activities moved from one of the last in Russia up to the top 20. The SWOT matrix of the Primorsky Krai is shown in Table 9. Table 9 The Primorsky Krai SWOT Matrix Strengths Weaknesses • Sustained economic growth of Primorsky Krai, the…

enacted the Hokkaido Former Aborigines Protection Act, a law designed to achieve the assimilation of the Ainu population of northern Japan” (Morris-Suzuki). This act was initially supposed to emphasize that the Ainu were now apart of a modernized Japan, thus merging the Ainu identify with the vast majority. However, this act only targeted them to oppressive assimilation measures and it did the opposite of what was intended. It only emphasized prejudice and discrimination towards the Ainu people…

57). The Ainu people represented cheap labor forces and since they were weakened by the limitations and bans of their traditional practices, many Ainu people became farmers (Godefroy 5). Sadly, the Ainu population began to decline drastically. In September 1875, many Ainu people were forced to migrate to the Soya region of Hokkaido but since Soya was close to Sakhalin region, Japanese officials feared the Ainu people would cause international border issues. Therefore, the Ainu people were forced…

thirteenth century, Ainu settled their traditions and culture in the Northern part of Hokkaido, Northern part of Honshu (the main island of Japan), and the Kuril Islands which are the Chishima for Japanese. The settlements of Ainu were called ainu mosir, which meant, the great peaceful land, and located near the ocean. Their method of earning was fishing and hunting. Their languages were totally different from Japanese which distinguish them from Japanese. The history and origin of Ainu is still…

warships. At the end of the battle, it resulted as Japanese victory “with Russian losing 5,000 men and 36 ships. The Japanese lost 100 men, and 3 torpedo boats.” As a result, Japanese convinced Russia to sign the peace treaty, which is called the Treaty of Portsmouth and the United States president, Theodore Roosevelt, visited Portsmouth, New Hampshire and mediated it in 1905. The purpose of the treaty was not only for the peace negotiation between Japan and Russia, but also it gave Japan…

entered the region of Japan since 1894-95 Russia wanted them to give up the ports in Manchuria. Then Russia decided to move inland and they took over Port Arthur which had many Japanese secret plans which was significant to the Russians. Then in 1904 the Japanese had a full scale on attack against the Russians. The Russians were caught by surprise and destroyed very quickly. According to the Office of Historian Both sides suffered high Casualties Russia lost over 60,000 men and Japan lost over…