(stg.sakhalin.su)
ISLAND VIEW Sakhalin Travel Group offers a comprehensive rundown of what's happening in town, a selection of click-on photos of tours, hotels and activities in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, and information on trips to the interior. STG is also the publisher of Sakhalin's fortnightly English-language newspaper the Sakhalin Times, another valuable resource.
Fifty Years on
(www.pref.hokkaido.jp/soumu/sm-hrtsk/hp-en/hist-en.htm)
STILL AT WAR Russia and Japan remain technically at war due to the seizure of the Japanese-controlled Kuril Islands of Iturup, Kunashir, Shikotanto and...