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A Study on Japanese Perception and Approach to the East Sea Rim Region after the Russo-Japanese War: Focused on Report of the Vocational Inspection Team from Niigata Prefecture(1907)

  • Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies
  • Abbr : JAPS
  • 2018, 25(1), pp.93-120
  • DOI : 10.18107/japs.2018.25.1.004
  • Publisher : Institute of Global Affairs
  • Research Area : Social Science > Social Science in general
  • Received : February 18, 2018
  • Accepted : March 9, 2018
  • Published : March 30, 2018

Kyu-Sung Bae 1

1경희대학교(국제캠퍼스) 국제지역연구원

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ABSTRACT

This paper examines Japanese perception and approaches to the East Sea/Sea of Japan Rim Region in modern times, namely how Japan tried to use the East Sea and the surrounding area for a full-scale invasion upon the continent after it defeated its greatest competitors over the domination of the Korean Peninsula through the Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War. In 1907 after the Russo-Japanese War, Japan(Niigata prefecture) dispatched an investigation team to Vladivostok in Russian Far East and Karafuto, the southern part of Sakhalin Island in order to inspect not only the merchants but also the fishermen focused on the area of the East Sea. One of the reasons for the Niigata investigation team was to obtain information about the economic situation in these areas as a prerequisite for establishing Japanese territory in Karafuto. Niigata Prefecture proposed a regional framework for developing a commercial network between Niigata Port and Vladivostok and Karafuto. The proposed structure of the ‘the East Sea Rim Regions’ is strikingly similar to the territory of the Japanese colonial empire, where overseas colonies spread around the archipelago. Therefore, this paper argues that it is ‘petit Japanese imperialism of the East Sea Rim Region’ as a politico-geographical interpretation of the regional commercial framework that Niigata prefecture conceived after the Russo-Japanese War. In other words, modern Japan perceived the East Sea as a spatial mediator of interactions connecting the mainland Japan with (domestic and overseas) colonies. And the coastal area of the East Sea has formed a regional network commercially economically and militarily connected with the mainland Japan. And the development of the western coast of Japan has been developed with such a goal.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.
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