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As Tessa Morris-Suzuki points out, ‘the lines that are drawn on the map determine which paths of movement are possible and which impossible, which journeys are legal and which illegal’.1 The Russo-Japanese War of 1904–5 and World War II of 1939–45 twice moved the line of the Russo (Soviet)-Japanese national border on Sakhalin Island. The last re-drawing of the national border trapped nearly 24,000 descendants from the Korean Peninsula,2 who had been brought to the island just before and during the Asia-Pacific War. These Koreans were not repatriated to their homeland at the end of the war, unlike many thousands of others who were in Japan and other parts of the former Japanese Empire, due to a complex combination of factors.3
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T Morris-Suzuki, Borderline Japan: Foreigners and Frontier Controls in the Postwar Era (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. 32–3.
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Saveliev, I.R. (2015). Trapped in the Contested Borderland: Sakhalin Koreans, Wartime Displacement and Identity. In: de Matos, C., Caprio, M.E. (eds) Japan as the Occupier and the Occupied. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137408112_9
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