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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Sakhalin 2 project operator confident of profitability

YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, Russia - Ian Craig, president of Sakhalin Energy Investment Co., speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Yushno-Sakhalinsk on Oct. 21. He indicated the firm is confident of securing profitability in connection with its Sakhalin 2 oil and natural gas development project off the island of Sakhalin in Russia's Far East.

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(2)Sakhalin oil, gas project seen threatening sea eagles

NOGLIKI, Russia - Photo shows a fledgling sea eagle which was found in Nogliki on the island of Sakahlin by a joint team of academics from Moscow University and Japan's Wildlife Preservation Bureau of Hokkaido, a nonprofit organization.

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(1)Sakhalin oil, gas project seen threatening sea eagles

NOGLIKI, Russia - Researchers from Moscow University and Japan's Wildlife Preservation Bureau of Hokkaido, a nonprofit organization, check the health condition of a fledgling sea eagle in Nogliki in the northeastern part of the island of Sakhalin in late July.

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Kawaguchi, Khristenko hold talks in Vladivostok

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - Japanese Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi and Russia's Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Khristenko pose for a photo before they hold talks in Vladivostok on June 29. Kawaguchi and Khristenko, who jointly chair a Japan-Russia governmental committee on trade and economy, discussed the promotion of oil and natural gas development in Sakhalin and other ways to enhance ties between Japan and the Russian Far East.

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Burned Russian boy arrives in Japan for treatment

SAPPORO, Japan - Evgeniy Popenko (in wheelchair), an 11-year-old boy from Russia's Sakhalin region, is escorted by a doctor and nurse on arrival in Sapporo on July 11 aboard a chartered plane to undergo treatment for severe burns he sustained last January in a gas explosion.

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Hokkaido city of Wakkanai near Russia's Sakhalin

Photo taken in the Hokkaido city of Wakkanai, northern Japan, on March 14, 2022, shows a traffic sign written in Japanese, English and Russian. Sakhalin in Russia's far east is only about 40 kilometers from Wakkanai.

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Sakhalin 2 project operator confident of profitability

YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, Russia - Ian Craig, president of Sakhalin Energy Investment Co., speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Yushno-Sakhalinsk on Oct. 21. He indicated the firm is confident of securing profitability in connection with its Sakhalin 2 oil and natural gas development project off the island of Sakhalin in Russia's Far East. (Kyodo)

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Japanese envoy conveys regrets over canceling of Sakhalin-2 proj

MOSCOW, Russia - Photo shows a drilling rig of Sakhalin-2 international oil and gas development project located off Russia's Sakhalin island. Japanese Ambassador to Russia Yasuo Saito met with Russian Natural Resources Minister Yurii Trutnev on Sept. 18 to convey Japan's regret over his ministry's decision to revoke government approval of the project. (Kyodo)

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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. (Kyodo)

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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. (Kyodo)

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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. (Kyodo)