AS ALWAYS IN early February, ice floes are starting to clog the strait between Nemuro, a fishing port in northern Japan, and Kunashiri, a volcanic island hanging on the horizon. And as always on February 7th, Nemuro's residents clogged a local cultural centre to mark "Northern Territories Day", when they pine publicly for Kunashiri and three other nearby islands-the Northern Territories-sundered from Japan in the final days of the second world war.
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