Download or read book Demarcating Japan written by TAKAHIRO. YAMAMOTO and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-01-03 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In modern Japan's formative years, Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands, Tsushima, the Bonin Islands, and the Ryukyu Islands became the subject of inter-imperial negotiations, where empires nudged each other to secure their status with minimal costs rather than fighting a territorial scramble. Demarcating Japan argues that the transformation of border islands should be understood in as an interconnected process, where inter-local referencing played a key role in the outcome-Japan's geographical expansion in the face of domineering extra-Asian empires"--