[Bürgen]

BTW, Russia and Japan had been fighting on-and-off-again from 1901 (when the russo-japanese war broke out, it ended in 1905), when japan occupied the Kamchatka Peninsula and the Kuril Islands on the sea of Okhotsk, until WWII broke out in 1931(yes that's when WW2 started, not 1939, that's just when it started in Europe), when Japan invaded Manchuria. One of the forgotten theatres of WW1 was between Japan and Russia in the Asiatic portion of the country, even though you'll never see it in a History book at school, that's why it is 'forgotten'.

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[This message has been edited by Bürgen (edited July 25, 2001).]