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Russian business official highlights fishery cooperation with China

STORY: Russian business official highlights fishery cooperation with China DATELINE: June 5, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:45 LOCATION: FUZHOU, China CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the expo 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): DINA ROMONOVA, Director, Export Support Center of Sakhalin region, Russia 3. various of the expo 4. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): DINA ROMONOVA, Director, Export Support Center of Sakhalin region, Russia 5. various of the expo STORYLINE: A Russian business official attending the China (Fuzhou) Fisheries & Seafood Expo 2023 has highlighted the bright prospect for trade in fisheries, expecting to seek closer cooperation with their Chinese counterparts The three-day expo, which concluded on Sunday in Fuzhou City, east China's Fujian Province, attracted over 500 enterprises from 16 countries and regions including China, Russia, Indonesia, South Korea and Ecuador. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): DINA ROMONOVA, Director, Export Support Center of Sakhalin region, Russia "This is the first time we take part in this

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Cherry blossoms in full bloom in Moscow

People take pictures of cherry blossoms at a botanical garden at M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University in Moscow on April 24, 2023, as the North Japanese hill cherry, which is native to Japan, Korea and Sakhalin in Russia, is in full bloom.

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Cherry blossoms in full bloom in Moscow

People take pictures of cherry blossoms at a botanical garden at M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University in Moscow on April 24, 2023, as the North Japanese hill cherry, which is native to Japan, Korea and Sakhalin in Russia, is in full bloom.

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Memorial service for WWII female post office workers

SAPPORO, Japan - Chieko Kuriyama speaks in front of the photos of her nine former colleagues at a post office in Maoka (currently Kholmsk in Sakhalin, Russia) during a memorial service held for them in Wakkanai on the northernmost main island of Hokkaido on Aug. 8, 2014. Working as telephone exchange operators, the nine young Japanese women committed suicide by taking poison on the same date in 1945 when Russian forces invaded the town. (Photo by Daisuke Suzuki)

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Sakhalin governor

SAPPORO, Japan - Alexander Khoroshavin (L), governor of Russia's Sakhalin region, and Hokkaido Gov. Harumi Takahashi holds talks at the Hokkaido government hall in Sapporo on Jan. 30, 2014.

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Demand for Japan's dental technology growing in Russia

ASAHIKAWA, Japan - A Russian dentist treats a patient at his clinic in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk on the Far Eastern island of Sakhalin as seen in this file photo taken on Aug. 18, 2014, amid growing local demand for Japan's advanced dental technology.

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Ferry service to end between north Japan and Sakhalin

ASAHIKAWA, Japan - Heart Land Ferry Co.'s ferryboat linking Wakkanai in Japan's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido and Sakhalin in the Russian Far East is anchored at Wakkanai port on Aug. 13, 2014. The company announced the end of service between the two cities at the end of September due to a continuing deficit.

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Russia opens new airport on Japan-claimed Etorofu

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - Sakhalin Gov. Alexander Horoshavin (far R) cuts the ribbon at a ceremony to open a new airport on Etorofu Island -- one of four Russian-held, Japanese-claimed islands off Hokkaido -- on Sept. 22, 2014.

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Sculptor of late yokozuna Taiho's statue erected in Russia

SAPPORO, Japan - Sculptor Toshio Kamada, shown in this file photo taken on Aug. 18, 2014, regards the 2.3-meter-tall statue of the late Japanese sumo legend Taiho he produced as a milestone in his career. He visited the grand champion's birthplace in Poronaysk in Russia's Far Eastern region of Sakhalin in August to attend an unveiling ceremony for the statue.

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Russian museum eager to display Japan dinosaur fossil replica

ASAHIKAWA, Japan - Nipponosaurus' skeleton model is displayed at the Hokkaido University Museum in Sapporo on June 26, 2014. The fossil was discovered in 1934 in the Japanese territory of Karafuto, in what is now Sakhalin, Russia. The Sakhalin Regional Museum in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk wants to display a replica of the fossil.

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Event for victims of 1983 KAL shoot-down

NEVELSK, Russia - Open burning of ceramics is held in Nevelsk, Sakhalin, Russia, on Aug. 22, 2014, to mourn the victims of a Korean Air Lines jumbo jet shot down by a Soviet jet fighter in 1983. The memorial event started at the initiative of Japanese ceramic artist Hitoko Okai who lost her son Makoto and his wife Yoko in the shoot-down. It was the fifth event.

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Memorial remembers suicides of 9 women before Soviet invasion

WAKKANAI, Japan - A memorial service is held in Wakkanai in Japan's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido on Aug. 20, 2014, for nine female postal office workers who killed themselves on the same day in 1945 in a town in the southern half of the Russian Far East island of Sakhalin, then controlled by Japan, in the face of an invasion by Soviet troops during the closing days of World War II. The town, then known as Maoka, is called Kholmsk today.

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Chorus remembers suicides of 9 women before Soviet invasion

WAKKANAI, Japan - Women sing in chorus at a memorial service held in Wakkanai in Japan's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido on Aug. 20, 2014, for nine female postal office workers who killed themselves on the same day in 1945 in a town in the southern half of the Russian Far East island of Sakhalin, then controlled by Japan, in the face of an invasion by Soviet troops during the closing days of World War II. The town, then known as Maoka, is called Kholmsk today.

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Statue of sumo legend Taiho erected in birthplace in Russia

PORONAYSK, Russia - Photo taken Aug. 15, 2014, shows a ceremony to unveil a bronze statue of the late Japanese sumo legend Taiho in his birthplace Poronaysk in Sakhalin, eastern Russia. Toshio Kamada (far R), the Japanese sculptor who created the original mold was in attendance.

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Statue of yokozuna Taiho set to leave for birthplace in Russia

AKITA, Japan - Photo taken on July 11, 2014, in Ogata in the northeastern Japanese prefecture of Akita shows a bronze statue of sumo legend Taiho, who won a record 32 tournaments and died last year at age 72, and his wife Yoshiko Naya. The statue will soon be shipped to Sakhalin, his birthplace in eastern Russia, where it is to be erected.

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Luxury liner Sun Princess visits Otaru, northern Japan

SAPPORO, Japan - The 77,000-ton Sun Princess, a cruise ship operated by Princess Cruise Lines Ltd. of the U.S., makes a port call in Otaru, Hokkaido, on June 28, 2014, prior to departure for an eight-day cruise around sightseeing spots in the northernmost Japanese prefecture and Sakhalin, Russia.

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Luxury facilities of Sun Princess cruise ship opened

SAPPORO, Japan - A casino aboard the 77,000-ton Sun Princess, a cruise ship operated by Princess Cruise Lines Ltd. of the U.S., is unveiled to the press at Otaru port in Hokkaido on June 28, 2014, prior to departure for an eight-day cruise around sightseeing spots in the northernmost Japanese prefecture and Sakhalin, Russia.

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Wooden model for Taiho's statue

AKITA, Japan - Photo shows sculptor Toshio Kamada unveiling a wooden model he has carved for a statue of the late sumo great Taiho (1940-2013), whose real name was Koki Naya, in the village of Ogata in Akita Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on April 22, 2014. After being cast by Kamada, the bronze statue of Taiho, who held sumo's highest rank of yokozuna, is expected to be donated around August 2014 to Poronaysk on the Russian Far Eastern island of Sakhalin, Taiho's birthplace.

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Wooden model for Taiho's statue

AKITA, Japan - Photo shows sculptor Toshio Kamada unveiling a wooden model he has carved for a statue of the late sumo great Taiho (1940-2013), whose real name was Koki Naya, in the village of Ogata in Akita Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on April 22, 2014. After being cast by Kamada, the bronze statue of Taiho, who held sumo's highest rank of yokozuna, is expected to be donated around August 2014 to Poronaysk on the Russian Far Eastern island of Sakhalin, Taiho's birthplace.

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Japanese restaurant owner in Russia spreads friendship

YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, Russia - Photo taken Aug. 7, 2013 shows Yutaka Miyanishi, honorary citizen of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, who worked for the lighting-up of the Sakhalin Regional Museum in the Far Eastern city, formerly known as the Karafuto-cho (Karafuto Government Office) Museum, which the Japanese government built in 1937 when it controlled the south part of Sakhalin island.

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Famous dog statues to leave Tokyo Tower

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken at Tokyo Tower in Tokyo's Minato Ward on May 15, 2013, shows the statues of Sakhalin huskies which accompanied the first Japanese Antarctic expedition team in the late 1950s, including those of Taro and Jiro, the only dogs to miraculously survive after being left behind when the expedition team returned home. Work began the same day to remove the 15 statues, as part of an afforestation project within the Tokyo Tower grounds.

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Famous dog statues to leave Tokyo Tower

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken at Tokyo Tower in Tokyo's Minato Ward on May 15, 2013, shows the statues of Sakhalin huskies which accompanied the first Japanese Antarctic expedition team in the late 1950s, including those of Taro and Jiro, the only dogs to miraculously survive after being left behind when the expedition team returned home. Work began the same day to remove the 15 statues, as part of an afforestation project within the Tokyo Tower grounds.

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U.S. firm to build wind power plant on Kunashiri

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - Photo taken in February 2013 shows the headquarters of Sakhalin Machinery LLC in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia. The company, owned by Tiger Machinery LLC based in the U.S. state of Alabama, won an order to build a wind power generation plant on Kunashiri Island, a senior Sakhalin Province official said on March 29, 2013. Kunashiri is one of four-Russian held islands claimed by Japan.

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Japan, Russia conduct joint drill to counter smugglers

OTARU, Japan - A patrol boat (R back) of Russia's border security authority for the Sakhalin coast chases a Japan Coast Guard ship (L) playing the role of a smuggler during their joint exercise in waters off Otaru, Hokkaido, on June 22, 2012. Similar drills have been reciprocally held in Japan and Russia since 2001 to better counter smuggling.

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Japan, Russia conduct joint drill to counter smugglers

OTARU, Japan - A patrol boat (back) of Russia's border security authority for the Sakhalin coast chases a Japan Coast Guard ship playing the role of a smuggler during their joint exercise in waters off Otaru, Hokkaido, on June 22, 2012. Similar drills have been reciprocally held in Japan and Russia since 2001 to better counter smuggling.

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Japan, Russia conduct joint drill to counter smugglers

OTARU, Japan - Japan Coast Guard Commandant Hisayasu Suzuki (L) and Russia's Border Guard Service chief Vladimir Pronichev shake hands off Otaru, Hokkaido, on June 22, 2012, after inspecting a joint exercise by a regional office of the Japan Coast Guard in Hokkaido and Russia's border security authority for the Sakhalin coast conducted to better counter smuggling.

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Russian Far East gas pipeline completed

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin autographs a displayed sample gas pipeline during a ceremony in Vladivostok in the Russian Far East on Sept. 8, 2011. The ceremony marked the completion of a natural gas pipeline to transport gas from a natural gas field in Sakhalin to Vladivostok.

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Russian Far East gas pipeline completed

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (R) pushes the button to launch a natural gas pipeline in Vladivostok in the Russian Far East on Sept. 8, 2011. The pipeline will transport gas from a natural gas field in Sakhalin to Vladivostok.

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Hokkaido firms attempting to attract Russian tourists

SAPPORO, Japan - Tourism personnel from Sakhalin, Russia, receive an explanation about facilities as they visit a ski resort in Sapporo, Hokkaido, in December 2010. Companies in Hokkaido are aiming to attract Russian tourists, particularly higher socioeconomic groups.

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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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Sakhalin restores Japanese cultural assets to attract tourists

YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, Russia - Photo shows the former branch of now-defunct Japanese bank Hokkaido Takushoku Bank, now a Sakhalin state museum, in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk in Russia, which was built before World War II. 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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1st shipment of Sakhalin-2 LNG arrives in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - A tanker carrying about 67,000 tons of liquefied natural gas docked at an LNG receiving terminal in Sodegaura, Chiba Prefecture, on April 6, marking the arrival of the first shipment of LNG from Russia's Sakhalin-2 project. Tokyo Gas Co. and Tokyo Electric Power Co., which jointly operate the LNG storage facility southeast of Tokyo, will share in shipments equally, with the gas company supplying the LNG as town gas and the electricity firm using it as fuel for its thermal power plants.

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Japan, Russia to cooperate to save endangered eagles

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows an endangered Steller's sea eagle flying over drift ice off the town of Rausu on Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido. The Russian Natural Resources Ministry announced Feb. 26 that experts from Japan and Russia will cooperate to carry out a conservation project to artificially breed the eagles in a zoo in Sapporo, Hokkaido, and release them in Russia's Sakhalin Province, where the birds breed. The bird is said to be the world's heaviest eagle.

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Support rate for Aso Cabinet hits new low

PRIGORODNOYE, Russia - Japanese Prime Minister Taso Aso delivers a speech during a ceremony to start production of liquefied natural gas at a plant in Prigorodnoye, southern Sakhalin Island, on Feb. 18. Public discontent with the already shaky Aso's Cabinet has grown after the resignation of his finance minister with the support rate for Aso's Cabinet down to 13.4 percent in a Kyodo News survey.

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Aso, Medvedev hold summit talks in Sakhalin

YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, Russia - Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso (L) speaks to reporters after talks with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, the capital of Sakhalin Island, on Feb. 18. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Aso, Medvedev hold summit talks in Sakhalin

YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, Russia - Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso (L) speaks to reporters after talks with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, the capital of Sakhalin Island, on Feb. 18. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Aso, Medvedev hold summit talks in Sakhalin

YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, Russia - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (L) and Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso shake hands in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, the capital of Sakhalin Island, on Feb. 18 prior to their talks. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Aso, Medvedev hold summit talks in Sakhalin

YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, Russia - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (L) and Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso (R) sit down for talks in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, the capital of Sakhalin Island, on Feb. 18. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Aso arrives in Russia to meet with Medvedev

YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, Russia - Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso arrives in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk on Sakhalin Island on Feb. 18 for talks with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. Aso is the first Japanese premier in the postwar period to set foot on the island. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Aso arrives in Russia to meet with Medvedev

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso waves as he leaves Tokyo's Haneda airport on Feb. 18 for talks with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Sakhalin Island.

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Gazprom executive gives indication about gas exports to Japan

MOSCOW, Russia - Alexander Medvedev, deputy chief executive officer of Russia's state-owned gas monopoly Gazprom, speaks to a group of editorial writers from member newspapers of Kyodo News in Moscow on Oct. 10. Medvedev has indicated that some of the natural gas produced by the Sakhalin 1 oil and gas development project could be exported to Japan.

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Japan hopes to import LNG from Sakhalin-1 gas field

TOKYO, Japan - Members of the Japan Russian-Federation Intergovernmental Commission on Trade and Economic Issues meet at the Foreign Ministry guesthouse in Tokyo on Feb. 26. Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso (3rd from R, seated) expressed hope to import liquefied natural gas from the Sakhalin-1 oil and gas field.

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Aso expresses desire to import LNG from Sakhalin-1 gas field

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's Foreign Minister Taro Aso (L) meets with Russian Minister for Industry and Energy Victor Khristenko at the Foreign Ministry guesthouse in Tokyo on Feb. 26. Aso expressed hope during a meeting of the Japan Russian-Federation Intergovernmental Commission on Trade and Economic Issues on the same day that Japan wants to import liquefied natural gas from the Sakhalin-1 oil and gas field.

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Sakhalin taimen fish in danger of extinction, research shows

TOKYO, Japan - Concern is growing that the Sakhalin taimen (in file photo), a salmonid fish inhabiting Hokkaido and the Russian Far East, will become extinct, research by a group of U.S. and Russian experts showed. The group estimates the population of the rare giant fish in major habitats in Russia has decreased by 98-99 percent during the past 30 to 40 years.

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Mitsui, M'bishi, Shell cede majority stake in Sakhalin-2 to Gazprom

TOKYO, Japan - Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuhisa Shiozaki speaks at a press conference on Dec. 22 on a deal made by Mitsui & Co., Mitsubishi Corp. and the Royal Dutch/Shell group with Russian state-owned gas monopoly Gazprom concerning their Sakhalin-2 oil and natural gas development project. Shiozaki said, ''Since our country relies on foreign energy sources...it is important for the project to progress smoothly to provide energy stably to Japan,'' adding ''We want the Russian side to act in a responsible manner.''

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Russia vows completion of Sakhalin-2 project

TOKYO, Japan - Russian Ambassador to Japan Alexander Losyukov briefs reporters at the Russian Embassy in Tokyo on Sept. 20 on Russia's decision to put on hold an international oil and gas development project off Sakhalin island.

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Man who returned to Japan from Russia after 67 years leaves for home

SAPPORO, Japan - Yoshiteru Nakagawa, 79, a Japanese man who remained on Sakhalin Island after World War II and returned to Japan on July 2 for the first time in 67 years, gives a banzai as he leaves New Chitose airport for his current home in Russia's southern republic of Kamlykiya on July 16.

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Japanese living in Russia returns to Japan for 1st time in 67 yrs

SAPPORO, Japan - Yoshiteru Nakagawa (L), 79, a Japanese man who remained in Sakhalin after World War II and currently lives in southern Russia, has his tears wiped off by his 60-year-old sister Tomiko Orui on arriving at New Chitose Airport in Hokkaido to make a temporary visit to Japan for the first time in 67 years on July 2.

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Japanese living in Russia returns to Japan for 1st time in 67 yrs

SAPPORO, Japan - Yoshiteru Nakagawa, 79, a Japanese man who remained in Sakhalin after World War II and currently lives in southern Russia, holds his sister Tomiko Orui, 60, in tears at New Chitose Airport in Hokkaido on returning to Japan for a temporary visit for the first time in 67 years on July 2.

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Japanese war veteran heads to Ukraine after 1st visit in 63 years

NARITA, Japan - Ishinosuke Uwano, a former Japanese Imperial Army solider, who had a dramatic family reunion in his hometown in Iwate Prefecture for the first time since he went missing in Sakhalin after the end of World War II, speaks to reporters at Narita airport prior to heading back to Ukraine on April 28.