Download or read book Demarcating Japan written by Assistant Professor of Cultural Economic History Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies Takahiro Yamamoto and published by Harvard East Asian Monographs. This book was released on 2023-02-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 emerged out of multilateral power relations. Demarcating Japan shows the crucial role of nonstate actors in formulating a territory.