| 1 | Taro Aso, Japan's prime minister, visited the Russian island of Sakhalin for the opening of a liquefied natural-gas plant. | |
| 2 | The treaty also specified that the island of Sakhalin/Karafuto was not to be partitioned but was to remain under a joint Russo-Japanese condominium. | |
| 3 | The East Sakhalin Current draws cold water down toward Japan, helping make the Shiretoko Peninsula the southernmost spot with winter sea ice. | |
| 4 | Many islands and rocks located in the Kamchatka and Sakhalin regions are named after the pretty birds. | |
| 5 | It is also just about as far north in Japan proper as itis possible to be: if you start climbing the volcano, the coast of RussianSakhalin comes into view. |
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