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PRONUNCIATION OF KARAFUTO

Karafuto  [ˌkɑːrɑːˈfuːtɔ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF KARAFUTO

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Karafuto is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES KARAFUTO MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Karafuto

Karafuto Prefecture

Coat of arms Green: Karafuto Prefecture within Japan in 1942 Light green: Other constituents of Imperial Japan Capital Toyohara History - Becomes prefecture 1907 - Initial colonization 1905 - Becomes prefecture 1907 - Upgraded to "inner land" 1943 - Autonomy December 1 1945 - Soviet occupation August 25, 1945 Population - December 1941 406,557 Today part of Russia Karafuto Prefecture, commonly called South Sakhalin, was the Japanese administrative division corresponding to Japanese territory on Sakhalin from 1905 to 1945. Through the Treaty of Portsmouth, the portion of Sakhalin south of 50°N became a colony of Japan in 1905. In 1907 the prefecture of Karafuto was established, with its capital at Ōtomari in 1905 and later Toyohara in 1907. In 1945, with the defeat of Japan in World War II, Karafuto was occupied by Soviet troops and its Japanese administration ceased to function. Karafuto Prefecture was formally abolished as a legal entity on June 1, 1949.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE KARAFUTO

Kara Kum
Kara Sea
Kara-Kalpak
Kara-Kalpak Autonomous Republic
Kara-Kalpakia
Kara-Kalpakstan
karabiner
Karachai-Cherkess Republic
Karachai-Cherkessia
Karachayevo-Cherkess Republic
Karachi
Karaganda
karaism
Karaite
Karajan
karaka
karakia
Karakoram
Karakoram Pass
Karakorum

WORDS THAT END LIKE KARAFUTO

auto
Basuto
battuto
cornuto
Maputo
Pluto
risoluto
ritenuto
scruto
sostenuto
tenuto

Synonyms and antonyms of Karafuto in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «Karafuto» into 25 languages

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Find out the translation of Karafuto to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of Karafuto from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Karafuto» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

桦太
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Karafuto
570 millions of speakers

English

Karafuto
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

Karafuto
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

Karafuto
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Karafuto
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Karafuto
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

Karafuto
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Karafuto
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Karafuto
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Karafuto
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

樺太
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

Karafuto
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Karafuto
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

Karafuto
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

Karafuto
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

करफूटो
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Karafuto
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Karafuto
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Karafuto
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Karafuto
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Karafuto
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

Karafuto
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

Karafuto
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

Karafuto
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

Karafuto
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Karafuto

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «KARAFUTO»

The term «Karafuto» is normally little used and occupies the 136.098 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «KARAFUTO» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Karafuto

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «KARAFUTO»

Discover the use of Karafuto in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Karafuto and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Bear-Worshippers of Yezo and the Island of Karafuto ...
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
Edward Greey, 2012
2
The Japanese Discovery of Europe, 1720-1830
The one area of the globe that remained a mystery to geographers everywhere was Karafuto, as Saghalien was called by the Japanese. European explorers, beginning with Vries in 1642, had sighted the coasts of Karafuto, but had been ...
Donald Keene, 1969
3
Capitalism from Within: Economy, Society, and the State in a ...
Affairs Notification 4, 3 October 1905) and amendments (Dept. of Civil Affairs Notifications 5, 9 October 1905, and 6, 14 October 1905), are reprinted in Okada, Karafuto-to shokisoku ruiju, pp. 55-61. 9. Sugimoto Zennosuke, Karafuto gyosei ...
David Luke Howell, 1995
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Articles on Karafuto, Including: Sakhalin, Karafuto ...
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Hephaestus Books, 2011
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Race, Ethnicity and Migration in Modern Japan: Race, ...
79 Nisen no Ainu mo lyo-iyo Nihonjin ni naru' (Two Thousand Ainu Will at Last Become Japanese), Karafuto Nichi Nichi Shinbun, 26 July 1932; 'Ainu no Nyuseki' (Ainu to be Registered), Karafuto Nichi Nichi Shinbun, 4 December 1932; 'Dojin ...
Michael Weiner, 2004
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Sakhalin Island: Shaping Modern Japanese-Russian Relations
Karafuto was no farther north than northern parts of France or the United States and that its climate was similar to places like Quebec, Canada (Takahashi 1933, 91-103). In the mid 1930s the story "A Karafuto Journey" (Karafuto no tabi) was ...
Jonah Asher, 2009
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Foreign Maps
Date Sheet Number ^□Administrative Listings -Declination Diagram - Slope Scale -Sheet Name K Index to Adjoining Sheets Declination Note "Bar Scale 56. Mapping Activities a. Native. The Japanese maintained possession of Karafuto from ...
‎1956
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Race, Resistance and the Ainu of Japan
75 'Dojin Buraku no Bunri' (Division of the Native Village), Karafuto Nichi Nichi Shinbun, 24 September 1910. 76 'Waraware ni Gyoba o Kaese' (Give us back our Fishing Grounds), Hokkai Taimuzu, 17 May 1932. 77 'Waraware ni Gyoba o ...
Richard M. Siddle, 2012
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Japan's Competing Modernities: Issues in Culture and ...
"NATIVES" AND NATIONALS: THE CASE OF KARAFUTO We can catch some glimpses of these tensions of identity by looking at the small and relatively neglected example of the indigenous people of southern Sakhalin (Karafuto).
Sharon Minichiello, 1998
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Japan’s Household Registration System and Citizenship: ...
To the north, Karafuto (Sakhalin) was treated differently to other territories,5 and was not officially included as part of naichi ... government implemented the Karafuto dojin kasu- ninbetsu gokaicho- (Karafuto Native Household Census), the first ...
David Chapman, Karl Jakob Krogness, 2014

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «KARAFUTO»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Karafuto is used in the context of the following news items.
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Behind the Scenes / Putin's Russia eyes 'correctness' on territories
Chishima and southern Karafuto were Japanese territory at the end of the war, so the idea of them being “freed” by the Soviet Union is ... «The Japan News, Jul 15»
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Man-made oil failed to cover WWII oil shortage, worker says
But he was proud to be working for the country. Kokubun was drafted in June 1945 and fought Soviet soldiers in Karafuto, now Sakhalin, in the ... «The Japan Times, Jun 15»
3
Film Review: 'Seven Weeks'
... leading him on a mission to Sakhalin, which was then under Japanese sovereignty and named Karafuto. A blood-soaked history comes back ... «Variety, Jun 15»
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Japanese legacy lives on in Sakhalin
The building, which was used as the administrative headquarters of the southern part of the island then known as Karafuto, is a rare and fine ... «Russia Beyond the Headlines, May 15»
5
Sakhalin's Koreans: Russian at heart
The ethnic Koreans were brought as slave labour to southern Sakhalin or Karafuto as the Japanese called their part of the island. «Russia Beyond the Headlines, May 15»
6
To Hell With Capitalism: Snapshots from the Crab Cannery Ship …
“They're saying that Kamchatka and northern Karafuto are rolling with money to be made, and they're making damned sure to add this whole ... «Japan Focus, May 15»
7
Memories of the man who inspired 'Giovanni's Island'
More than 2,000 people were packed into a Soviet cargo ship and brought to the port town of Maoka in Karafuto, now Kholmsk in Sakhalin. «The Japan Times, May 15»
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Mourners mark WWII Sakhalin post office suicides
20, 1945, at a post office in Maoka (modern-day Kholmsk, Russia) in Japanese-controlled Sakhalin, then called Karafuto, when Soviet forces ... «The Japan Times, Jan 15»
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Russians in the Far East cautious, but open to deeper ties with …
... monuments from the days it was known as Karafuto. The island, which is connected by a ferry service from Hokkaido, in the warmer months, ... «Russia and India Report, Jan 15»
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Russians in the Far East cautious, but open to greater ties with Asian …
... monuments from the days it was known as Karafuto. The island, which is connected by a ferry service from Hokkaido, in the warmer months, ... «Russia Beyond the Headlines, Dec 14»

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