Curated category
Former Japanese colonies
- Marshall IslandsThe Marshall Islands is 98.62 percent water. No other sovereign state on Earth carries so much ocean against so little land.
- Federated States of MicronesiaThe Federated States of Micronesia spreads across the western Pacific just north of the equator, its 607 islands strung over almost 2700 km.
- Kuril IslandsThe Kuril Islands stretch roughly 1,300 kilometres from the northern tip of Hokkaido all the way to Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula, and today they sit at the…
- North KoreaNorth Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, is a country that Amnesty International considers to hold the worst human rights record in…
- Caroline IslandsThe Caroline Islands stretch across approximately 3,540 km of the western Pacific Ocean, a scatter of roughly 500 tiny coral islands that together form one…
- SakhalinSakhalin is a Russian island that sits at the edge of two worlds, separated from the Asian mainland by just 6.5 km at its narrowest point, yet positioned…
- TaiwanTaiwan sits in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, tucked between the East and South China Seas, with the People's Republic of China to its northwest, Japan to…
- Japanese occupation of the PhilippinesThe Japanese occupation of the Philippines began on the 8th of December 1941, just ten hours after bombs fell on Pearl Harbor.
- Korea under Japanese ruleKorea under Japanese rule began on the 22nd of August 1910, when a treaty signed by Prime Minister Ye Wanyong and Japan's Minister of War, Terauchi Masatake…
- South KoreaSouth Korea, officially the Republic of Korea, claims to be the sole legitimate government of the entire Korean Peninsula and its adjacent islands.