Karafutoball
Karafutoball (commonly called South Sakhalinball) was a colonial prefectureball of
Japanese Empireball after the Russo-Japanese War on southern
Sakhalinball island from 1905 to 1945.
Through the Treaty of Portsmouth, the portion of Sakhalin Island south of 50°N became a colony of
Japanese Empireball in 1905. In 1907, the prefecture of
Karafuto was established, with its capital at Ōtomari (now Korsakov) in 1905, and later Toyohara (now Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk) 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, and was gobbled up by
Soviet Unionball. Since 1951, the southern part of Sakhalin has been a part of
Sakhalin Oblast in
Russiaball.