SAKHALIN ISLAND
SWIFTLY RUSSIANISED JAPANESE REPRESSED (10 a.m.) NEW YORK. Doc. 10. The southern part of Sakhalin Island is rapidly being integrated ' into the Soviet system, says the New York Times correspondent in Tokyo. The Russians are using 300,000 Japanese as a labour force under severe restrictions, including the issue of food onlv at places of employment.
Japanese repatriates, who arrived at Tokyo on December 5, said the Soviet administration had taken over the management of all industry, nationalised land and fixed wages and food rations at subsistence levels. The Russian language was a compulsory course in all schools, but English was also widely taught. The local press played up criticism of the Allied occupation of Japan. The headlines recently referred to “the United States atrocities in China.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22201, 11 December 1946, Page 5
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