![]() ![]() For those islands now belong to Russia, and so their former inhabitants bide their time here in Nemuro, on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido, on a peninsula that marks the easternmost bit of land still controlled by Japan. ![]() ''They're saying, 'This year, maybe.' Or 'next year.' ''īut it may be never. ''My brothers sleeping in the soil, they're waiting for us all to come home,'' Mr. ![]() But that is simply one more reason to return. And yes, the harsh life claimed five of his brothers and sisters when they were children. His icy, windswept village had had no electricity, he acknowledged. Standing at the edge of Japan, overlooking a white lighthouse, a thick mist and an endless expanse of ocean, Takeshi Murakami struggled to explain why anybody would ever care about the offshore islands that were once his home. ![]()
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