The history of choosing to catch the island

According to Biography of the New Tang Dynasty, there is a department of animal husbandry in the northwest of Heishui. Go north for 65,438+00 days to reach the county department, northeast for 65,438+00 days to reach the grottoes department, and southeast for 65,438+00 days to reach the Modragu department. The destination is ghost country. After starting from Sakhalin Island, this route sailed southeast along the northwest wind direction, turned northeast and reached the southern tip of kamchatka peninsula, with a total length of 9 18 nautical miles (1700 km) and time-consuming 15 days. It shows that the people of sakhalin island mastered the law of counterclockwise current in the Sea of Okhotsk in the Tang Dynasty, and opened up a great arc route from northwest to southeast and then to northeast.

1794, the Russian imperial government sent 38 exiles and 20 hunters to live and establish settlements on Telford Island.

1799, after the Tokugawa shogunate learned of this incident, it recaptured Dongxiayi and the South Kuril Islands from Matsumae, ordered Kahee, a wealthy businessman with official background, to open a 17 fishing ground on Chokisuo Island, and sent shogunate officials to the island to establish an administrative organization.

Since 180 1, the shogunate has sent 100 troops to land on the island from Nanfan and Tsugaru, and in the same year sent officials to Telford Island to advise Russian immigrants not to trade, and set up a sign that "Japan will always be an island".

During the period of 1805- 18 13, Russia constantly harassed Japan in the Kuril Islands. This period is called "Beikou Eight Years" in Japanese history. Since then, Japan and Russia finally reached a compromise on the demarcation of the Kuril Islands in the Japan-Russia friendship treaty on February 7, 855. The boundary between the two sides is Chokishi Island (Japan) and Tokushima Island (Russia), which is also the basis for Japan's claim to the South Kuril Islands (the so-called "four northern islands") after 100.

1855, the two countries signed the Treaty of Japan-Russia Friendly Relations, which stipulated that the islands were owned by Japan, and Japan successively established administrative divisions.

194 1 year. In World War II, troops led by Nan Yunzhong assembled in Shanguan Bay on the south bank of the island and launched the Pearl Harbor incident, thus detonating the United States' participation in the war.

1945 At the end of August and the beginning of September, the Soviet Union launched the August Storm military action before the end of World War II and occupied the island. So far, the right to effectively control the island is still Russia.

The San Francisco Peace Treaty signed in 195 1 stipulated that Japan should give up the 1905 Portsmouth Peace Treaty, and then the Soviet Union officially obtained the right to seize the island. However, the Soviet Union did not sign this peace treaty, and the Japanese parliament also cancelled the resolution to abandon the island after the country and choose to seize the island in February 1956.