02710nam 22005052 450 991102604650332120240902145055.01-68417-671-910.1163/9781684176717(MiAaPQ)EBC31505864(Au-PeEL)EBL31505864(CKB)32575238200041(OCoLC)1443483081(nllekb)BRILL9781684176717(OCoLC)1443939825(MdBmJHUP)musev2_125618(EXLCZ)993257523820004120240902d2023 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierDemarcating Japan Imperialism, Islanders, and Mobility, 1855–1884 /Takahiro YamamotoFirst edition.Massachusetts ;Cambridge :Harvard University Asia Center,2023.©20231 online resource (284 pages)Harvard East Asian Monograph Series ;Volume 4600-674-29138-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Imperialists and Interpreters in the Tsushima Strait Region -- The Ryukyu Islanders and Their Altered Mobilities -- Violence, Conviviality, and Survival in Sakhalin -- And Then There Were None: The Kuril Islands -- "No Gain in Owning, No Pain in Losing": -- The Bonin Islands.Histories of remote islands around Japan are usually told through the prism of territorial disputes. In contrast, Takahiro Yamamoto contends that the transformation of the islands from ambiguous border zones to a territorialized space emerged out of multilateral power relations. Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands, Tsushima, the Bonin Islands, and the Ryukyu Islands became the subject of inter-imperial negotiations during the formative years of modern Japan as empires nudged each other to secure their status with minimal costs rather than fighting a territorial scramble. Based on multiarchival, multilingual research, Demarcating Japan argues that the transformation of border islands should be understood 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. See LessHarvard East Asian monographs ;Volume 460.Imperialism, Islanders, and Mobility, 1855–1884ImperialismImperialism.327.52Yamamoto Takahiro1847589NL-LeKBNL-LeKBBOOK9911026046503321Demarcating Japan4433433UNINA