Life in Japan and bubbles

(2016-01-18, 1:24 am)cophnia61 Wrote: Why the russian thing? ._.

I can't answer that myself, but there is an interesting history between Japan and Russia. I think that the Battle of Tsushima was the first military defeat of a western power by an asian power in the modern era (Japan beat Russia).

Also, I think that Japan and Russia are still disputing a small piece of land.

Stretching my memory, when I visited Hokkaido many of the signs were in Japanese, English and Russian. The Russian was a total surprise for me. You can see some of those signs here.

If you have a minute, I recommend going to Google Maps and zooming in on Hokkaido and looking at just how close Russia is. Whenever I see how close those Russian islands are to Japan I'm surprised.

I read somewhere - I can't remember the source now - that there was actually a concern towards the end of world war 2 that Japan might become like Korea - an artificial border drawn, where Russia controlled the north and the US controlled the south.