Chishima Province (千島国, Chishima-no kuni) was a province of Japan created during the Meiji Era. It originally contained the Kuril Islands from Kunashiri...

[kʊˈrʲilʲskʲɪjə ɐstrɐˈva]; Japanese: Kuriru rettō (クリル列島, "Kuril Islands") or Chishima rettō (千島列島, "Thousand Islands")) are a volcanic archipelago administered...

to create Nemuro City Notsuke (野付郡) Shibetsu (標津郡) Menashi (目梨郡) Chishima Province (千島国, Chismima-no kuni): Originally the islands of Kunashiri and Etorofu...

Province. August 15, 1869 Nemuro Province created with five districts 1872 Population is 832. January 1885 Shikotan transferred to Chishima Province Hanasaki...

which the island belongs, was split off of Nemuro Province and incorporated into Chishima Province.[citation needed] In September 1945, during the final...

(天塩国) Kitami (北見国) Hidaka (日高国) Tokachi (十勝国) Kushiro (釧路国) Nemuro (根室国) Chishima (千島国) - After the Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1875), Japan added north...

point under Japanese claim. It was established in 1869 as part of Chishima Province when 11 provinces and 86 districts were established in Hokkaidō. The...

Ainu was deported to Hokkaido after serving 15 years hard labor in the province of Magadan. His wife, Tamara Timofeevna Pykhteeva was of mixed Sakhalin...

the government. They consisted of the following: Karafuto (since 1943) Chishima Islands (since 1875) Hokkaidō Honshū Shikoku Kyūshū Izu Islands Ryukyu...

Kyūshū), Iki, Tsushima, Sado, and Yamato (later Honshū); Hokkaidō, Karafuto, Chishima, and Okinawa were not part of Japan in ancient times, as Aynu Mosir (the...