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Article: RUSSIA: SAKHALIN KOREANS PROTEST JAPANESE GOVERNMENT'S PROGRAM.(Brief Article)
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- IPR Strategic Business Information Database
- Article date:
- March 8, 2001
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Members of "Repatriation," a public organization of Koreans living on Sakhalin Island, picketed the Japanese consulate in the capital of that oblast, Yuzho-Sakhalinsk, on 1 March, Interfax-Eurasia reported. Repatriation is protesting against a Japanese government program for repatriating Koreans to their historic homeland. Kim Su Yen of Repatriation told the agency that Koreans in Sakhalin Oblast were brought to the island by the Japanese military some 50 years ago for forced labor, and ...