Debates Concerning the Incorporation of Peripheral Islands into the Territory of Japan
Journal: Institutional Repositories DataBase (IRDB)
Year: 2020

Japan introduced international law when Japan ended the seclusion policy of the Edo period and started to interact with Western countries.Japan took measures to possess and establish title to peripheral islands on the basis of international law.The process by which peripheral islands in the Pacific, the Sea of Japan, the East China Sea, and the Sea of Okhotsk were incorporated into Japanese territory will be examined, and the objections of neighboring countries to some of these acquisitions will