evidence: The evacuation of Karafuto (Sakhalin) and the Chishima (Kuril) islands refers to the events that took place during the Pacific theater of World War II as the Japanese population left these areas, to August 1945 in the northwest of the main islands of Japan. [...] In the Kuriles a similar pattern was repeated when Japanese civilians desperately retired from Shumushu and Paramushiro before the Soviet invasion (the Russians only sank one war vessel transporting some Japanese troops), but did not occur at the time in some islands such as Uruppu and South Kuriles. In these cases, Russian troops arrived in aggressive form to expel local citizens and confiscate local property. [...] See also [edit]- Battle of the Kuril Islands - Evacuation of Manchukuo - Evacuation of East Prussia - Japanese repatriation from Huludao - Soviet assault on Maoka - Soviet Invasion of South Sakhalin - World War II evacuation and expulsion