Sakhalin Korean history

former prefecture of Japan on southern Sakhalin island

ethnic cleansing of Koreans in the Soviet Union

1945 Soviet invasion of the Japanese portion of Sakhalin Island

was a policy of pressuring Koreans under Japanese rule to adopt Japanese names and identify as such. The primary reason for the policy was to forcibly assimilate Koreans, as was done with the Ainu and the Ryukyuans. The has been deemed by historians as one of the many aspects of cultural genocide that the Japanese attempted to impose on their non-Japanese territories.