North Sakhalin Oil Company

Japanese: 北樺太石油会社 - きたからふとせきゆがいしゃ

…In 1919, during the civil war following the Russian Revolution, the Japanese Navy organized five domestic oil companies into the Hokushinkai and began drilling for oil in Okha. During the occupation of North Sakhalin following the Nikolai Incident, the Navy itself began oil surveys. By the Basic Treaty between Japan and the Soviet Union in 1925, Japan acquired rights to half of the oil fields in North Sakhalin, and in 1926, it established the North Sakhalin Oil Company and began producing oil. By 1937, the annual production of oil in Okha exceeded 150,000 tons. [Akizuki Toshiyuki] …

From Sakhalin

...From this time on, the number of forced laborers from the Korean peninsula increased rapidly, and the Korean population at the end of the war is estimated to have been about 40,000. During this time, in 1920, during the Russian Revolution, Japan guaranteed occupation of northern Sakhalin on the grounds of the Nikolai incident, and in 1925, through the "Japan-Soviet Basic Treaty," Japan obtained 45 years of concessions for oil and coal mining in the region, and established the North Sakhalin Oil Company and the North Sakhalin Mining Company to carry out production there. When the Soviet Union entered the war against Japan in 1945, southern Sakhalin was annexed by the Soviet Union again, and although there has been remarkable development since then, most of the major cities and industries remain as they were in the Japanese era. ...

*Some of the terminology used in reference to the North Sakhalin Oil Company is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…ロシア革命後の内戦中の1919年に日本海軍は国内石油会社5社に〈北辰会〉を組織させてオハの石油掘削に着手し，尼港事件後の北樺太保障占領中には海軍自らが石油調査に乗り出した。25年の日ソ基本条約によって日本は北樺太における油田の半分に対する権益を獲得し，26年に北樺太石油会社を設立して石油の生産に努め，オハでの採油量は37年までは年産15万tをこえていた。【秋月俊幸】。…

【サハリン】より

…このころから強制徴用による朝鮮半島からの労働者が急増し，終戦時の朝鮮人人口は約4万と推定されている。この間ロシア革命期の1920年，日本は尼港（にこう）事件を理由に北サハリンを保障占領したのち，25年の〈日ソ基本条約〉によってこの地方の石油･石炭採掘に対する45年間の利権を獲得し，北樺太石油会社と北樺太鉱業会社を設立して現地での生産にあたった。45年ソ連の対日参戦で南サハリンは再びソ連に併合され，その後の発展は著しいが，主要都市および産業もほとんどが日本時代のままに引き継がれている。…

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