Building Construction in Southern Sakhalin During the Japanese Colonial Period (1905-1945)
Building Construction in Southern Sakhalin During the Japanese Colonial Period (1905-1945)

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this article is to focus on building construction done by Japanese administrative offices on the Island of Sakhalin south of latitude 50 degrees north. The period dealt with in this article is the time when southern Sakhalin was colonized by Japan between 1905 and 1945. That period is defined as “the Japanese colonial period” in this article. In the area of modern Japanese architectural history, although little is known about building construction on Sakhalin except for the information in our reports,1 there are numerous studies dealing with other Japanese colonies in the first half of the 20th century. For example, the former Manchuria, the Korean peninsula and Taiwan 2 have been dealt with in other studies. Such a delay in the studies of this area has been caused by severe restrictions on travel to Sakhalin and by the scattered location of unfiled handwritten material stored in libraries and archives all over Japan.

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