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Wakarimasen
Give us back our Hoppo Ryodo
Peter Qinghai
Treat those four islands the same as the 38th parallel on the Korean peninsula, a no-man's-land, let the inhabitants choose which country they want to live in and move them.
Let no nation lay claim and/or benefit from them.
The same needs to be done with the Senkaku Islands / Diaoyu Dao.
This is the only fair and equitable resolution to these disputes.
The same strategy can be extended into the South China Sea.
ThonTaddeo
Kunashir (no i on the end) is the correct original Ainu pronunciation; Russian can handle final consonants better than Japanese can.
I would like to see Japanese writers use the small katakana that Ainu uses so that Ainu words can be expressed more correctly. It is a little embarrassing that the Russian name for this island is more accurate than the Japanese one.