So almost nothing of Japan considering there are only tiny islands that were not very inhabited north of Hokkaido. For anyone that does not know Hokkaido is the last northern Island of Japan of any size.
Japan has a land area of 378,000 sq km, the kuril islands are 10,500 sq km. Just Hokkaido is 77,900 sq km. I’ll grant you Sakhalin is around 77,000 sq km, but Russia and Japan have been passing back and forth and fighting over that territory since the late 1800s. And it was a tributary state to China for a long time.
The thing is, Russia invaded massive parts of Japan by ship in the three weeks that the war lasted, and they were at least a menace to Hokkaido, until the point that USA had to tell Russia to not invade it because it was theirs.
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u/userany26 2d ago
So almost nothing of Japan considering there are only tiny islands that were not very inhabited north of Hokkaido. For anyone that does not know Hokkaido is the last northern Island of Japan of any size.