FEATURE: Russian picture book revisits Japanese displacement from Sakhalin

MOSCOW - A picture book published in Russia last year examines the experiences of Japanese civilians who were forced to leave Karafuto, located on the present-day Russian Far East island of Sakhalin, at the end of World War II, a subject that has received limited attention in the country.

Titled "Shard of Karafuto," the book depicts the friendship between a Japanese and a Russian girl and is set in Karafuto, the southern part of Sakhalin that Japan ruled until its defeat in 1945.