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The Kita and Minami Fortresses (Japanese kita, "north" and minami, "south") were defensive structures of the Imperial Japanese Army and Imperial Japanese Navy in the Kuril Archipelago.
The most northerly points were on the Kokutan[1] and Kurabu Zaki[2] capes,[3] and its coastal front on the Shumushu Strait near Lopatka Cape in the Soviet Union's Kamchatka peninsula.
This military organization was under the Twenty-Seventh Army (Chishima Area Base Unit or Kuril Area Army), led by Shozo Terakura. The Twenty-seventh Army was under the leadership of the Fifth Area Army, under the command of Kiichiro Higuchi whose headquarters was in Sapporo, Hokkaidō. The Twenty-Seventh Army was composed of the 42nd and 91st Divisions.
- ^ After WWII it was renamed to Kurbatov's cape (Shumshu) in honor of a participant of the Shumshu battle
- ^ After WWII it was renamed to Vasiliev's cape (Paramushir)
- ^ "Острова ратной славы". Музей Южно - Сахалинской наступательной операции. Муниципальное бюджетное учреждение культуры Сахалинской области (in Russian).