Curated category
Former Japanese colonies
- Marshall IslandsRadiocarbon dating suggests that Bikini Atoll may have been inhabited as early as 1200 BCE. Archaeological digs on other atolls found evidence of human…
- Federated States of MicronesiaThe Federated States of Micronesia stretches across 2,900 kilometers of the western Pacific Ocean. This island nation comprises 607 individual islands and…
- Kuril IslandsThe Kuril Islands form part of the ring of tectonic instability encircling the Pacific Ocean referred to as the Ring of Fire.
- North KoreaThe Korean Peninsula rises like a sea in a heavy gale, according to early European visitors who marveled at its successive mountain ranges.
- Caroline IslandsThe Caroline Islands form a widely scattered archipelago of tiny islands in the western Pacific Ocean. They sit to the north of New Guinea and span a…
- SakhalinThe island of Sakhalin stretches 1,600 kilometers from north to south. It lies between the Sea of Okhotsk and the Sea of Japan.
- TaiwanThe island of Taiwan lies in a complex tectonic area between the Yangtze Plate to the west and north, the Okinawa Plate on the north-east, and the Philippine…
- Japanese occupation of the PhilippinesJapan invaded the Philippines on the 8th of December 1941. This attack occurred just ten hours after the strike on Pearl Harbor.
- ManchukuoThe Mukden Incident of the 18th of September 1931, marked the beginning of a calculated military operation that would reshape Northeast Asia.
- Korea under Japanese ruleOn the 27th of February 1876, the Japan, Korea Treaty of 1876 was signed under duress following the Ganghwa Island incident.
- PhilippinesThe first human bones found in the Philippines date back 709,000 years to a site now known as Callao Cave. These remains suggest an unknown species of early…
- South KoreaIn the early seventh century BC, Chinese records noted Gojoseon as the first kingdom on the Korean Peninsula. This ancient polity expanded to control much of…