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 ...

"Japan calls these islands inherent territory ... He also found that since the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), Chinese maps and documents have consistently included Diaoyu Dao, Huangwei Yu and Chiwei ...

Mainland Japan has never been “discovered ... The backstory regarding the Bonin islands is that on a Japanese map, the kanji characters for mujinto (uninhabited island) were misread and ...