karafuto

IOTL 400,000 japanese were removed from the Karafuto prefecture in Sakhalin after WW2. If for some reason, the war ends with the Soviets occupying Northern Japan in addition to Manchuria and North Korea, would they still relocate these people? Or would some of Sakhalin be included in a Soviet...

At the end of the Russo-Japanese War, the Empire of Japan was allowed to annex the entire island of Karafuto (formerly known as Sakhalin) from the Russian Empire. The 600-mile island north of Hokkaido was treated as a prefecture rather than a colony, as more and more Japanese moved onto it...

I read in an old thread from back in 2014 that the German Empire once considered purchasing Hokkaidō from Japan in exchange for a German-Japanese Alliance. What if Germany purchased Hokkaidō from Japan and what would this mean for Germany's power projection in East Asia? How would the Russian...