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The Japanese are in a panic: the Kurils will be more closely connected with the rest of Russia
Why does the development of the Russian Far East infuriate our ill-wishers?
Readers of the Japanese newspaper Hokkaido Shimbun reacted extremely negatively to reports about the appearance of new Russian ships in the Sea of Okhotsk: they must connect Sakhalin Island with the islands of the South Kuril ridge, which are part of the Sakhalin Region. The Japanese reaction is quoted by RIA Novosti.
The authors of the article spoke about the plans of the local authorities to launch the Admiral Nevelskoy cargo-passenger ferry. In addition, as previously noted in the press service of the Sakhalin Oblast government, the Pavel Leonov ship will soon start cruising in the same direction.
However, Japanese readers, instead of rejoicing for their neighbors, greeted this news with hostility to the Arisaka rifle, since, in their opinion, the development of maritime traffic in the region finally “secures the islands of the South Kuril ridge to Russia” .
"Admiral Nevelskoy" is a powerful tool for strengthening transport links between Sakhalin and the three northern islands - Iturup, Kunashir and Shikotan, "wrote user MichiToyama .
“Russia is striving to improve living conditions on the islands and is strengthening its presence there ,” greenmale66 noted .
“I also agree with that. By its actions, Russia wants one thing: to strengthen its control over the islands , ”added hitomineye .
And the user under the nickname yamadaikenkyuka was also outraged that Japan does not have sovereignty over these territories. “ The Japanese forget about reality and entertain themselves with illusions! Therefore, Russia is laughing at us! " - he wrote.
“You have to look at things realistically. And learn from history lessons! We cannot return the islands! " - supported it by 99WmvG8IwrDqxOl .
Will this music be eternal and will they never calm down? What kind of joint economic activity can we talk about if the Japanese are so negatively opposed to any steps aimed at the development of the Kuril Islands?
But the launch of two new vessels will indeed become an important step in the development of the entire region ...
“Currently, only the Igor Farkhutdinov motor ship, owned by a private company, follows the route from the port of Korsakov (Sakhalin) to Shikotan-Kunashir-Iturup,” explains Sergey Ponomarev, chairman of the Sakhalin branch of the Russian Geographical Society . - One trip one way is about 18 hours, so he walks back and forth once a week. But he is alone, he periodically needs repairs, replacement of the crew , etc. In addition, when the ice situation does not allow sea transportation, the Kuril Islands are completely dependent on aviation, whose work also depends significantly on weather conditions.
So far, the sea communication of Sakhalin with the southern Kuril Islands is carried out only with the help of a small vessel "Igor Farkhutdinov", named in honor of the Sakhalin governor who died tragically in a plane crash.
After the Admiral Nevelskoy arrived from the plant in St. Petersburg in April, we expect regular flights to begin in late May-early June, as soon as the crew is assembled. And in August-September we expect one more vessel of the same project.
What is important, they will carry out not only passenger, but also cargo container transportation, which will give an impetus to the region's economy, allow supplying all sectors of the national economy, for example, delivering fresh food on time. In addition, the tourist flow will increase, it will be possible to quickly pick up servicemen who have served on the islands and deliver them to replace new recruits, as well as seasonal employees of fishing companies. We estimate that this will help triple the availability of the islands. After all, transport links have always been the main headache in our region.
"SP": - Why do the Japanese react so nervously?
- The fact is that since 1992 there has been a steamship line between the Japanese Hokkaido and the South Kuriles (Kunashir and Shikotan), which transports delegates of the visa-free exchange program, which allows the inhabitants of the islands to travel to each other within the framework of an intergovernmental agreement to improve mutual understanding of the peoples of the two countries ...
Over the entire period of its existence, more than 25 thousand people have already been transported. This is a definite plus. The downside is that you can go only as part of organized groups along a pre-agreed route. In fact, Japan remains closed for residents of the Kuriles. We have suggested many times to the Japanese authorities - make the line publicly available - people will be able to visit you more often, get to know your country better, after all, they will leave money with you, your citizens will be able to visit the graves of their ancestors in the Kuril Islands without restrictions. But the Japanese authorities will not agree to this. For them, this line is a way of psychological treatment of the inhabitants of the Kuriles.
At the same time, the Japanese government spends millions of yen on the program. If approached wisely, Japan could significantly increase the degree of influence in the Kuril Islands. But they prefer to cultivate nostalgia for the lost islands, which they lost back in 1945, it's time to admit it ...
“Russia has begun to invest in the development of territories, of course, the Japanese are unhappy,” notes the editor-in-chief of the FORUM portal. Moscow time Anatoly Baranov . - Back in the 90s they were waiting for the islands to fall into their hands on their own, well, maybe for a little corruption plan. But it doesn’t work, time passes, they get upset. Sooner or later, everyone will get used to the fact that the islands are Russian, and it will be ridiculous to demand them back.
"SP": - Would it be better for the Japanese if the Kuril people would live in the Stone Age at all? Are they so weighed down by any change for the better in the region?
- Yes, they don't care, it's just that the issue of the “northern territories” has become a kind of national idea, politicians depend on this demagogy. Well, imagine that the Germans would have demanded 70 years of Konigsberg from us. But the Germans acted smarter, and they no longer claim either Alsace or Lorraine, or Gdansk, or the Sudetenland. And the Japanese have "grown" such a dependence - something like this "grows" in the Ukrainian policy on the Crimea issue.
"SP": - Commentators agreed that the development of maritime traffic in the region finally "secures the islands of the South Kuril ridge for Russia." Is it really so? And before that type, they had a better chance of getting the islands?
- Well, of course, the ferry ties the islands to the shore on which they dock. If the Japanese were smarter, they would have long ago agreed to joint development, and the ferry to Japan is much closer.
"SP": - The reader of the Japanese newspaper thinks that Russia is laughing at them. Does Russia laugh at someone? Doesn't Russia care what they think in Japan on this score?
- Well, of course, we care, Japan is a valuable economic partner for us. But now China has grown enormously, and so has South Korea. Japan is beginning to lose in its region, and turning up its nose from Russia is not just unprofitable for it, it is deadly for it. But here comes into force this almost religious issue of the "northern territories". For the Japanese, this is a colossal problem.
"SP": - When do you think they will calm down?
- They cannot calm down themselves, they would be glad, but they cannot. They need to look for some acceptable solution within their own political reality. But there is a factor for the United States, which is now completely unprofitable for Japan's rapprochement with the Russian Federation. So the solution to the problem is not only in Tokyo.
- Ilya Kormiltsev wrote, and Vyacheslav Butusov sang: “This music will be eternal if I replace the batteries,” notes Andrey Dmitriev , the coordinator of the “Other Russia E. Limonov” party . - And so it is in the theme of the Kuril Islands. The Japanese have enough batteries, and they will always claim our territory and fiercely defend their right to own them, as well as the disputed Senkaku archipelago and the Koreans of Tok Island.
The other day, the DPRK Foreign Ministry criticized the Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihede Suga for visiting the Yasukuni Shrine, where participants in the genocide of the Second World War are buried (and the Japanese committed atrocities in Korea and China cleaner than Hitlerites in Europe), and for approving school textbooks where the Tok islands are attributed to this country ... "Even 75 years after the defeat, the Japanese government cannot part with its militaristic past," the Juche state states, and it is difficult to disagree with this.
It should be noted that this story received a new impetus with the coming to power of Joseph Biden in the United States . Prime Minister Yoshihede Suga became the first foreign guest to be received in Washington. The main vector here, of course, is anti-Chinese, but there is also an anti-Russian one. We have just seen a coordinated attack from Washington on Russia in Eastern Europe. It is likely that they will try to organize this in the Pacific region.
"SP": - How do we react to all this?
- Calm down. We need to develop infrastructure, improve life on the islands - the ferry is a step in the right direction here - and develop domestic tourism. Those who have been there (like the writer Alexander Prokhanov ) admired their beauty. And I would love to go with my wife and children, show them the eastern edge of our Motherland. But how much does it cost? Looked offhand - for the May holidays, only an air ticket from St. Petersburg to Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk with a transfer costs 30 thousand rubles per person. And all the questions disappear at once ... It turns out that not so much the Japanese are dangerous as the domestic capitalists, thanks to whom the Kuriles are not quite ours even now.
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Why does the development of the Russian Far East infuriate our ill-wishers?
Readers of the Japanese newspaper Hokkaido Shimbun reacted extremely negatively to reports about the appearance of new Russian ships in the Sea of Okhotsk: they must connect Sakhalin Island with the islands of the South Kuril ridge, which are part of the Sakhalin Region. The Japanese reaction is quoted by RIA Novosti.
The authors of the article spoke about the plans of the local authorities to launch the Admiral Nevelskoy cargo-passenger ferry. In addition, as previously noted in the press service of the Sakhalin Oblast government, the Pavel Leonov ship will soon start cruising in the same direction.
However, Japanese readers, instead of rejoicing for their neighbors, greeted this news with hostility to the Arisaka rifle, since, in their opinion, the development of maritime traffic in the region finally “secures the islands of the South Kuril ridge to Russia” .
"Admiral Nevelskoy" is a powerful tool for strengthening transport links between Sakhalin and the three northern islands - Iturup, Kunashir and Shikotan, "wrote user MichiToyama .
“Russia is striving to improve living conditions on the islands and is strengthening its presence there ,” greenmale66 noted .
“I also agree with that. By its actions, Russia wants one thing: to strengthen its control over the islands , ”added hitomineye .
And the user under the nickname yamadaikenkyuka was also outraged that Japan does not have sovereignty over these territories. “ The Japanese forget about reality and entertain themselves with illusions! Therefore, Russia is laughing at us! " - he wrote.
“You have to look at things realistically. And learn from history lessons! We cannot return the islands! " - supported it by 99WmvG8IwrDqxOl .
Will this music be eternal and will they never calm down? What kind of joint economic activity can we talk about if the Japanese are so negatively opposed to any steps aimed at the development of the Kuril Islands?
But the launch of two new vessels will indeed become an important step in the development of the entire region ...
“Currently, only the Igor Farkhutdinov motor ship, owned by a private company, follows the route from the port of Korsakov (Sakhalin) to Shikotan-Kunashir-Iturup,” explains Sergey Ponomarev, chairman of the Sakhalin branch of the Russian Geographical Society . - One trip one way is about 18 hours, so he walks back and forth once a week. But he is alone, he periodically needs repairs, replacement of the crew , etc. In addition, when the ice situation does not allow sea transportation, the Kuril Islands are completely dependent on aviation, whose work also depends significantly on weather conditions.
So far, the sea communication of Sakhalin with the southern Kuril Islands is carried out only with the help of a small vessel "Igor Farkhutdinov", named in honor of the Sakhalin governor who died tragically in a plane crash.
After the Admiral Nevelskoy arrived from the plant in St. Petersburg in April, we expect regular flights to begin in late May-early June, as soon as the crew is assembled. And in August-September we expect one more vessel of the same project.
What is important, they will carry out not only passenger, but also cargo container transportation, which will give an impetus to the region's economy, allow supplying all sectors of the national economy, for example, delivering fresh food on time. In addition, the tourist flow will increase, it will be possible to quickly pick up servicemen who have served on the islands and deliver them to replace new recruits, as well as seasonal employees of fishing companies. We estimate that this will help triple the availability of the islands. After all, transport links have always been the main headache in our region.
"SP": - Why do the Japanese react so nervously?
- The fact is that since 1992 there has been a steamship line between the Japanese Hokkaido and the South Kuriles (Kunashir and Shikotan), which transports delegates of the visa-free exchange program, which allows the inhabitants of the islands to travel to each other within the framework of an intergovernmental agreement to improve mutual understanding of the peoples of the two countries ...
Over the entire period of its existence, more than 25 thousand people have already been transported. This is a definite plus. The downside is that you can go only as part of organized groups along a pre-agreed route. In fact, Japan remains closed for residents of the Kuriles. We have suggested many times to the Japanese authorities - make the line publicly available - people will be able to visit you more often, get to know your country better, after all, they will leave money with you, your citizens will be able to visit the graves of their ancestors in the Kuril Islands without restrictions. But the Japanese authorities will not agree to this. For them, this line is a way of psychological treatment of the inhabitants of the Kuriles.
At the same time, the Japanese government spends millions of yen on the program. If approached wisely, Japan could significantly increase the degree of influence in the Kuril Islands. But they prefer to cultivate nostalgia for the lost islands, which they lost back in 1945, it's time to admit it ...
“Russia has begun to invest in the development of territories, of course, the Japanese are unhappy,” notes the editor-in-chief of the FORUM portal. Moscow time Anatoly Baranov . - Back in the 90s they were waiting for the islands to fall into their hands on their own, well, maybe for a little corruption plan. But it doesn’t work, time passes, they get upset. Sooner or later, everyone will get used to the fact that the islands are Russian, and it will be ridiculous to demand them back.
"SP": - Would it be better for the Japanese if the Kuril people would live in the Stone Age at all? Are they so weighed down by any change for the better in the region?
- Yes, they don't care, it's just that the issue of the “northern territories” has become a kind of national idea, politicians depend on this demagogy. Well, imagine that the Germans would have demanded 70 years of Konigsberg from us. But the Germans acted smarter, and they no longer claim either Alsace or Lorraine, or Gdansk, or the Sudetenland. And the Japanese have "grown" such a dependence - something like this "grows" in the Ukrainian policy on the Crimea issue.
"SP": - Commentators agreed that the development of maritime traffic in the region finally "secures the islands of the South Kuril ridge for Russia." Is it really so? And before that type, they had a better chance of getting the islands?
- Well, of course, the ferry ties the islands to the shore on which they dock. If the Japanese were smarter, they would have long ago agreed to joint development, and the ferry to Japan is much closer.
"SP": - The reader of the Japanese newspaper thinks that Russia is laughing at them. Does Russia laugh at someone? Doesn't Russia care what they think in Japan on this score?
- Well, of course, we care, Japan is a valuable economic partner for us. But now China has grown enormously, and so has South Korea. Japan is beginning to lose in its region, and turning up its nose from Russia is not just unprofitable for it, it is deadly for it. But here comes into force this almost religious issue of the "northern territories". For the Japanese, this is a colossal problem.
"SP": - When do you think they will calm down?
- They cannot calm down themselves, they would be glad, but they cannot. They need to look for some acceptable solution within their own political reality. But there is a factor for the United States, which is now completely unprofitable for Japan's rapprochement with the Russian Federation. So the solution to the problem is not only in Tokyo.
- Ilya Kormiltsev wrote, and Vyacheslav Butusov sang: “This music will be eternal if I replace the batteries,” notes Andrey Dmitriev , the coordinator of the “Other Russia E. Limonov” party . - And so it is in the theme of the Kuril Islands. The Japanese have enough batteries, and they will always claim our territory and fiercely defend their right to own them, as well as the disputed Senkaku archipelago and the Koreans of Tok Island.
The other day, the DPRK Foreign Ministry criticized the Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihede Suga for visiting the Yasukuni Shrine, where participants in the genocide of the Second World War are buried (and the Japanese committed atrocities in Korea and China cleaner than Hitlerites in Europe), and for approving school textbooks where the Tok islands are attributed to this country ... "Even 75 years after the defeat, the Japanese government cannot part with its militaristic past," the Juche state states, and it is difficult to disagree with this.
It should be noted that this story received a new impetus with the coming to power of Joseph Biden in the United States . Prime Minister Yoshihede Suga became the first foreign guest to be received in Washington. The main vector here, of course, is anti-Chinese, but there is also an anti-Russian one. We have just seen a coordinated attack from Washington on Russia in Eastern Europe. It is likely that they will try to organize this in the Pacific region.
"SP": - How do we react to all this?
- Calm down. We need to develop infrastructure, improve life on the islands - the ferry is a step in the right direction here - and develop domestic tourism. Those who have been there (like the writer Alexander Prokhanov ) admired their beauty. And I would love to go with my wife and children, show them the eastern edge of our Motherland. But how much does it cost? Looked offhand - for the May holidays, only an air ticket from St. Petersburg to Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk with a transfer costs 30 thousand rubles per person. And all the questions disappear at once ... It turns out that not so much the Japanese are dangerous as the domestic capitalists, thanks to whom the Kuriles are not quite ours even now.
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