Sakhalin restores Japanese cultural assets to attract tourists

Sakhalin restores Japanese cultural assets to attract tourists

YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, Russia - Photo shows the former Karafuto Prefecture museum, now a Sakhalin state local history museum, in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk in Russia, which was built before World War II by the Japanese prefectural government. The provincial government of Sakhalin is restoring with the help of Japanese experts buildings and other cultural assets the Japanese left behind after the war with a view to attracting Japanese tourists to the southern region of the island north of Hokkaido which was ruled by Japan between 1905 and 1945.

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