Kuril Islands Dispute on MSN Encarta

Thursday, September 27. 2007

Recently, I've resumed spending some of my time researching the Kuril Islands Dispute. I've come across the following article from MSN Encarta:

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Kuril Islands (Japanese Chishima-rettō, Russian Kuril'skiye Ostrova, from the word kurit, "to smoke")

Smokin... great to know that they are getting their information from a quality source. I'm surprised no-one over there had the initiative to look up the Kuriles on Wikipedia to see the real origins of the name.

Posted by Misha in Japan at 13:19 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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