Treaty for the Exchange of Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands

Japanese: 樺太･千島交換条約 - からふとちしまこうかんじょうやく

A treaty signed in St. Petersburg on May 7, 1875 between plenipotentiaries Enomoto Takeaki and Gorchakov that resolved the territorial issue between Japan and Russia. It was ratified on August 22 of the same year and proclaimed on November 10. The status of the Northern Territories that the Meiji government inherited from the former shogunate has been such that since the Japan-Russia Treaty of Peace and Amity was signed on December 21, 1855 (February 7, 1855), Sakhalin has been a land inhabited by both Japanese and Russian nationals, and its ownership has remained unresolved, and the border between Japan and Russia for the Kuril Islands has been the area between the islands of Etorofu and Urup, with the area north of that being Russian territory.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

1875年5月7日，ペテルブルグで榎本武揚，ゴルチャコフ両全権の間で調印され，日露両国間の領土問題を解決した条約。同年8月22日批准，11月10日布告。明治政府が旧幕府からひきついだ北方領土の状況は，安政1年12月21日(1855年2月7日)調印の日露和親条約以来，樺太(サハリン)は日露両国民雑居の地とされ帰属未解決のままであり，千島(クリル)列島は択捉（えとろふ）島，ウルップ島の間を日露の境界とし，その以北をロシア領としてきた。

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