In the last survey released in 1987, geographers counted islands with a coastline of 100 meters or longer on paper maps, according to the Japan Coast Guard, the author of the survey. The previous ...

Aman Vir created an interactive map of his favorite obscure islands ... Hurricane Irma turned these green Caribbean islands brown • Japan reaffirms sovereignty over Kuril islands, annexed ...

For the first time, an official map ... as Japan’s territory,” Funasugi said on Feb. 18. “The material carries great significance in studying (the country’s) sovereignty over the islands ...