Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk is a city and the administrative center of Sakhalin Oblast, Russia. It is located on Sakhalin Island in the Russian Far East, north of Japan. Gas and oil extraction as well as processing are amongst the main industries on the island. It was called Vladimirovka (Влади́мировка) from 1882 to 1905, then Toyohara during its period of Imperial Japanese control from 1905 to 1946. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 181,728.
Karafuto Agency, from 1943 Karafuto Prefecture, commonly known as South Sakhalin, was a colony of the Empire of Japan on Sakhalin from 1907 to 1943 and later a prefecture until 1945.
An apostolic prefect or prefect apostolic is a priest who heads what is known as an apostolic prefecture, a 'pre-diocesan' missionary jurisdiction where the Catholic Church is not yet sufficiently developed to have it made a diocese. Although it usually has an (embryonal) see, it is often not called after such city but rather after a natural or administrative geographical area.
Between 1905 and 1945, the Japanese Empire administered the southern half of Sakhalin, using the name Karafuto (樺太). The area was designated a chō (廳), the same term given to Hokkaidō at the time. It is commonly referred to as Karafuto Prefecture in English. The prefecture was divided into 4 subprefectures, which in turn were subdivided into 11 districts, in turn divided into 41 municipalities
In 1869, the island of Hokkaido, Japan was divided into 11 provinces and 86 districts. The majority of Japan's former provinces were converted into prefectures by the Meiji government between 1870 and 1876.
The facilities of the former Hokkaidō Government Office in Sapporo, Japan, include a conference room, a museum shop, a tourist information office, and a few historical exhibition rooms and libraries. Visitors can enter the building for free. Flower gardens and a pond are located in front of the building, which occasionally are designated as some event venues.
Sakhalin Koreans are Russian citizens and residents of Korean descent living on Sakhalin Island, who can trace their roots to the immigrants from the Gyeongsang and Jeolla provinces of present-day South Korea during the late 1930s and early 1940s, the latter half of the Japanese colonial era.
The Diocese of the Transfiguration at Novosibirsk is a suffragan Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in the Ecclesiastical province of the Mother of God at Moscow.
The Diocese of Oita is a suffragan Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in the Ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Nagasaki in southern Japan.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Pangkal-Pinang is a diocese in the Ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Palembang on Bangka Belitung Islands in Indonesia, yet depends on the missionary Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
Tatsuya Hori is a Japanese politician. He was director of the Hokkaidō-Kitami University. From 1995 he served as governor of Hokkaidō for two terms totalling 8 years. He was chairman of the board of Sapporo University. He was associate professor at Tokyo University of Agriculture.
The Apostolic Vicariate of Awasa is a Roman Catholic Apostolic Vicariate in central Ethiopia.
Sakhalin Railway is a division of the Far Eastern Railway that primarily serves Sakhalin Island. Due to its island location, the railway is the second isolated 1520mm gauge network in Russia, like the Norilsk railway. The only main connection to the mainland is the Vanino–Kholmsk train ferry. The management is located at Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.
Karafuto Shrine was a Shinto shrine in Toyohara, Karafuto Prefecture in what is now Sakhalin Oblast, Russia.
The Apostolic Prefecture of Rhodes and adjacent islands was a Latin Catholic apostolic prefecture in the Greek Aegean islands.
The Apostolic Vicariate of Heliopolis (of Egypt) (originally of the Nile Delta) was a Catholic missionary pre-diocesan jurisdiction of the Latin Church in northern Egypt.
Tabunia, is an ancient city and former bishopric of Roman North Africa, which remains a Latin Catholic titular see.
The Sakhalin Regional Museum is a museum in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk on the Russian island of Sakhalin. It is the largest museum in the Sakhalin Oblast. The Museum collects, researches, and displays materials relating to the natural history, archaeology, history, and ethnography of the region.
The Apostolic Prefecture of Xing'anfu or Apostolic Prefecture of Ankang is a Latin Catholic pre-diocesan jurisdiction located in Shaanxi. It depends directly on the Holy See and its missionary Dicastery for Evangelization.
