Japanese evacuation of Karafuto and the Kuril Islands

Japan evacuated its civilian population and military forces from Karafuto (Sakhalin) and the Chishima (Kuril) islands, to the northwest of the Japanese main islands, in the final months of the Pacific theater of World War II.

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