>>714052919
So let's be realistic Sakhalin

Population 489,638
No natural connection to mainland on top of being Russian and a higher geographical latitude.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki for years had preferental status because of the bombs.

Let's compare it to an actual city in Hokkaido that isn't Sapporo that has 4 times the population of Sakhalin

Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk - Population 175k

Yep it's a normal Russian city. Clearly lower standards then in Japan we can see that instantly wth the car park being 15 years or more old. Roads are so so. Signage is old.