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page 1Sakhalin Korean history
Karafuto Prefecture
former prefecture of Japan on southern Sakhalin island
deportation of Koreans in the Soviet Union
ethnic cleansing of Koreans in the Soviet Union
Soviet invasion of South Sakhalin
1945 Soviet invasion of the Japanese portion of Sakhalin Island
Sōshi-kaimei
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.