Japan's Forgotten Islands

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Japan lies on an island chain off the Pacific coast of Asia, and is one of the most influential countries in the world today. If you look at a map of Japan, you’ll notice that the country is dominated by four large islands. But there’s more to Japan than just these four islands - a lot more. Let’s explore!
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:28 Japan's main islands
3:12 Nanpō islands
5:01 Japanese rule in Taiwan
5:39 Ground News
6:38 Japan's other former territories
9:10 Conclusion
Corrections:
2:10 "Tokyo" (typo)
Sources and links:
Encyclopedia Britannica
“Mainland” Japan: ja.wikisource.org/wiki/%E5%85...
Japan's empire: en.wikisource.org/wiki/Govern...
“Seven Islands of Izu”: deirahon.com/sub/KAZ/KA04.html
“Nanpō Islands”: www1.kaiho.mlit.go.jp/kenkyu/...
Ogasawara UNESCO listing: whc.unesco.org/en/list/1362
Micronesians on Ogasawara: www.iwojima.jp/ogasa2.html
List of islands:
Main islands: Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu
Ryukyu islands (including Okinawa)
Nanpō islands:
Izu islands
- Izu Ōshima, To-shima, Nii-jima, Kōzu-shima, Miyake-jima, Mikura-jima, Hachijō-jima, Aogashima, Shikinejima
Ogasawara (Bonin) islands
- Chichijima (Peel Island), Hahajima
Volcano islands
- Iō-tō (Iwo Jima), Kita-Iō-tō (North Iwo Jima), Minami-Iō-tō (South Iwo Jima), Nishinoshima
Minamitorishima
Okinotorishima
Former islands: Taiwan, Sakhalin (Karafuto), South Seas Mandate
Former mainland territories: Korea, Kwantung leased territory, South Manchuria Railway
Disputed islands:
Senkaku (Diaoyu/Tiaoyutai) islands
Liancourt Rocks
Iturup, Kunashir, Shikotan, & the Habomai Islands
Image & sound Credits:
EEZ thumbnail derived from Marineregions.org, CC BY
Japan Paleomaps: Yuichi Kameda & Makoto Kato (modified by User:Snek01), CC BY 2.0
Ainu Marriage: munechika tanaka, CC BY 2.0
Ryukyu Merchant Flag: Samhanin, CC BY 3.0
National Diet Building: 663highland, CC BY 2.5
Minami Ioto: Karakara~jawiki, CC BY-SA 3.0
US to Japan: Signore Galilei, derived from above, CC BY-SA 4.0
Nishinoshima: 国土地理院, BY
Okinotorishima: 国土交通省関東地方整備局京浜河川事務所, CC BY 4.0
Republic of Formosa Flag: Jeff Dahl, CC BY-SA 4.0
St. Petersburg Treaty: World Imaging, CC BY-SA 3.0
Soviet Army in Korea: Russian Federation Ministry of Defense, CC BY 4.0
Koto Audio: derived from Torsodog, CC BY 3.0

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@Kden21 Жыл бұрын

Many of these islands, such as Ogasawara for example, was land registered under the City of San Francisco until the U.S. handed them back to Japan when they were done with their occupation. Funny to think that at one point you could sail across the ocean and technically arrive at the same city you departed from. Also thank you so much for making a video about this!!

@SignoreGalilei Жыл бұрын

That is a funny thought, definitely. And you're welcome!

@ChomoBidensMules Жыл бұрын

It'd be full of homeless junkies if San Francisco still had it.

@Bighatman Жыл бұрын

@martykarr7058 Жыл бұрын

The REAL reason they gave back Ogasawara is that they didn't want to deal with any more kaiju after the giant octopus took down the Golden Gate Bridge.

@raguelelnaqum Жыл бұрын

Minor addition: the Osagawaras actually were an Andlo-American colony, first peopled by a mixture of European, Non-Japanese East Asian, South Asian, SE Asians, American Peoples of Mixed Heritage, Polynesian & Melanesian peoples before Japan seized the islands in 1875. The population remained there even after the Japanese started peopling the islands with their own, until forcible relocations of these effectively indigenous descendants of those colonists, akin to the relocations of the Indigenous Ryukyu peoples to Honshu occurred just before WW2. The US technically still had a legal claims to the islands that it hadn't pressed until the war, but after the war and the depredations the Japanese did against the Obeikeitomin (Bonin islanders) the US seriously considered permanently keeping the islands to keep Japan in check, and only agreed to return them until the Japanese government compensated the Obeikeitomin & gave them special settlement/residency rights regardless of their citizenship. Which is ironic, given that originally the US had left them to fend them for themselves because the Obeikeitomin were mixed race.

@SignoreGalilei Жыл бұрын

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@ground_news Жыл бұрын

Thank you Signoer Galilei! For anyone interested, check out the link above and let us know if you have any questions.

@georgiopasca2720 Жыл бұрын

Nice video!

@bebebaba3442 Жыл бұрын

Great video! Subscribed

@SignoreGalilei Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@titan941234 Жыл бұрын

Just for some more information. Here are some relatively small to medium size islands not being mentioned, sometimes ignored by foreigners, while still important in some ways. 1. Tsushima Island(対馬島), between Japan and Korea, probably the most famous one, for the naval battle of Tsushima, and the game Ghost of Tsushima. 2. Iki Island(壱岐島), an even smaller island between Tsushima and Kyusyu. 3. Oki Islands(隠岐諸島), small volcanic archipelago, near the west coast of Honshu. It was a popular place for Penal transportation in Japanese history. 4. Awaji Island(淡路島), which is in the middle of Eastern Shikoku and Honshu. Thus, it plays an important role in connecting two major Islands. 5. Sado Island, or Sadogashima (佐渡島), in the northwest of Honshu. Once it had rich gold and silver mine. The five islands above are also important in Japanese mythology. With Honshu, Shikoku and Kyusyu, these are the first group of land being created, although there are other versions. 6. There are many islands near the cost of Kyushu, but one of the most significant (in my personal opinion) is Tanegashima(種子島), located in the south of Kyusyu. It’s renown for the Portuguese (and probably any European) landing on Japanese territory for the first time, in 1543. Now, it acts as a center of Japanese space exploration, with a rocket launch site.

@boarbot7829 Жыл бұрын

Thanks-very interesting information.

@SignoreGalilei Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the extra island info!

@ramairturbine4326 Жыл бұрын

nice follow up! One thing though: 5. is Sado Island/ Sadogashima it had the world's largest gold mine a few hundred years ago but closed after most of the reserves were mined.

@serebii666 Жыл бұрын

Tanegashima(種子島) - ooohh so that's why the Space Center in Pokemon Emerald is on Mossdeep Island!

@human-gx9pu Жыл бұрын

As a Japanese, I can confirm that the person who wrote this comment received a great education!

@rithwikp.m Жыл бұрын

Great video !

@SignoreGalilei Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@Icyy4406 Жыл бұрын

Why did you add a space before the "!"

@rithwikp.m Жыл бұрын

Because

@Icyy4406 Жыл бұрын

@@rithwikp.m good reasoning

@beautifulflorida Жыл бұрын

Very interesting, informative video! Thank you for sharing!

@druvce Жыл бұрын

great video!

@SignoreGalilei Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@JacksonMcgarvey2665 Жыл бұрын

Nice video mate.

@SignoreGalilei Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@triobros98 2 ай бұрын

Queensland flag profile

@GhostCountries Жыл бұрын

Really interesting video man; this, honestly, is right up my alley in terms of personal interest and (if everything goes well) I might actually have a chance to visit the Ogasawara (Bonin) Islands - part of the Nanpo Islands - later this year or sometime early next! 🇯🇵

@SignoreGalilei Жыл бұрын

Hey, thanks! That sounds like it could be an amazing trip - I hope you get the chance to do it!

@GhostCountries Жыл бұрын

@@SignoreGalilei We'll just see if I can survive the 24 hr. ferry ride there! 😅

@SignoreGalilei Жыл бұрын

@@GhostCountries Good luck! I'm taking a multi-day Amtrak journey later this year - but there's no risk of getting seasick at least!

@GhostCountries Жыл бұрын

@@SignoreGalilei Oh, I actually did the same a few years back...or, well, it shouldn't have been a multi-day train ride, but that's what it turned into. 😅 So, good luck on your journey too!

@SignoreGalilei Жыл бұрын

Oh boy, that sounds like a story. And thanks!

@AirForceChmtrails 8 ай бұрын

Excellent! Fascinating! Well done!

@volcanerd36 Ай бұрын

Hi, Sakurajima is the most active volcano in Japan, followed by Suwanosejima. Aso is usually steaming but doesn't erupt every week. Nishinoshima is often active too. Etc. etc.! Thanks for video!

@josephgoebbels1528 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for making nice video❤

@dragon_ninja_2186 Жыл бұрын

What I find fascinating are the islands along the Izu-Bonin Mariana Arc. If geography evolved differently, Japan could’ve had more bigger islands to the south of Tokyo if the arc was above sea level.

@SignoreGalilei 11 ай бұрын

Oh yeah, definitely. There are a lot of great "what if"s when it comes to geography.

@nenel24_ Жыл бұрын

Another quality upload! Keep up the great work! 😁😁

@SignoreGalilei Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@rodazi Ай бұрын

Recent archeological findings have revealed that islands throughout the entire Izu-Bonin-Marianas Arc were prehistorically inhabited by the Chamori (the indigenous people of the Mariana Islands now commonly known as Chamorros) as far north as Hachijojima. The Kuroshio current flowing north of Hachijo is what presumably prevented them from being able to migrate any farther than that.

@taka1416 Жыл бұрын

the latest archaeological and anthropological studies showed that before the Ainus, Hokkaido was inhabited by the Joumon.

@user-vs8ms5cu8t Жыл бұрын

Any sources?

@nm-nt4no Жыл бұрын

@@user-vs8ms5cu8t “Jomon Prehistoric Sites in Northern Japan” in world heritage site is it.

@TheCrazierz 2 ай бұрын

And before them another 10 groups.

@vistalover9607 Ай бұрын

This is correct. Ainu are Siberian refuges pushed out by the Nivkh or are Nivkh themselves (can someone confirm?). There’s a chance they are related to the Oroqen but I don’t think so. Ainu technically sort of kind of fall into the Jomon category but saying that is often confusing because then people think Ainu ARE the Jomon when Jomon included the Emishi and all other people that are NOT Ainu. We know this because Ainu were Hunter gatherers and that’s exactly how they survived with the mainland Japanese came, by trading fur. The Emishi had agriculture so if the Emishi and Ainu are related, firstly that is strange since their clothing is not the same but also how did one group get hunter gatherer and another side is mostly agricultural and lost contact? A lot doesn’t make sense if that’s the case. So it’s more logical to think they were pushed by the the Nivkh are or Nivkh themselves. Probably not Nivkh though because Ainu language and Nivkh don’t have much anything in common

@Sovietonion-1312 Ай бұрын

@@vistalover9607 crazy how all 4 of you are wrong, the ainu are genetically closer to the jomon than siberians and it’s far more likely the the ainu are either the descendants of the jomon or had shared descendants with the jomon and were displaced by the incoming yamato people

@harakovic 5 ай бұрын

1:42 7:26 Ainu people 2:58 Ryukuan people (2:48 Ryukyuan kingdom) 3:25 Izu Island's people (they speak hacijo) 3:53 Chichijima island 3:55 Hahajima island 6:48 Jeju island 7:15 Sakhalin 7:28 Orok & Nivkh ethnic groups ? 7:35 Kuril Islands

@chiefmonrovia6691 Жыл бұрын

Ive been working on a video about japan for months now, im finally putting it fully together. Japanese influence over the south china sea and surrounding pacific is all over the place. Sometimes they controlled it all, sometimes they would execute anyone caught building a boat: Truly a nation of extremes (in a good way though, i love Japan)

@shinsenshogun900 Жыл бұрын

Depends on how Japan experiences their successes and failures as a nation, in a cyclical epic to keep on gaining comebacks, temptations of radical changes, downfalls, and redemptions

@SignoreGalilei Жыл бұрын

Your last video was a really neat style, I'm excited to see what you do for this one!

@Simone-sz5dh Жыл бұрын

Do you love Japanese war crimes too 🤫

@babymonkey4601 Жыл бұрын

What happened in Nanjing 1937-1938???

@chiefmonrovia6691 Жыл бұрын

@@babymonkey4601 only bowling. Don't ask what the balls were and definitely don't ask what the pins were

@NeroPiroman Жыл бұрын

Well made definetly

@SignoreGalilei Жыл бұрын

Thank you, glad you enjoyed it!

@NeroPiroman Жыл бұрын

@@SignoreGalilei if you plan to keep the trend of island videos. Going, then the brittish isles might be a good idea

@SignoreGalilei Жыл бұрын

That might be a good one, thanks!

@cskillet2003 5 ай бұрын

With the Old Breed is a great first hand account of an American marine who fought on Peleliu and Iwo Jima. It's a great read!

@honghongkohan Ай бұрын

props to u for actually pronouncing japanese words pretty well for a foreigner

@cutterj88 Жыл бұрын

Loved it!

@zaskiaalsakila7248 Ай бұрын

Hey 1,22. You missed the biggest country in that area, Russia. Calls the sea outside off Primorsky Kray, Vladivostok, Sea of Japan. So Japan has a "friend" in the naming of sea atleast. Soviet Union and Tsarist Russia also calls the area sea of Japan. I seen a video of USSR Navy. We are out of Vladivostok port, now we are in Sea of Japan. Yaponskoe More, Japanese Sea. The Pacific Fleet is at ready in the Japanese Sea. Ie, Russian Navy ships out of Vladivostok port.

@Bighatman Жыл бұрын

Man this video about my country is so great I decided to watch it again

@FeeshUnofficial Ай бұрын

Man I can't believe they put in all this effort to make all of these pokemon regions real

@samhaine6804 Жыл бұрын

oh! i literally searched on youtube for 'minor japanese islands' a few days ago looking for a nice documentary and was so disappointed there was nothing there except one video about the bunin islands! thank you! xoxoxoxoxo

@samhaine6804 Жыл бұрын

id love a video on the channel islands/ outer hebrides too at some point, unless there are more pressing subjects on your to-do list. subscribed!

@aqueousmoments Жыл бұрын

I am a resident of Japan. Your video is excellent and I hope many more will see it. Thank you

@SignoreGalilei Жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

@wbbartlett Ай бұрын

So which of islands these are 'forgotten'? And by whom?

@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un Жыл бұрын

Minamitorishima is not only the easternmost part of Japan's territory, but also the only part of Japanese territory on the Pacific Plate, as it's passed the Japan Trench. The island is off limits to civilians except for Japan Meteorological Agency staff, although reporters, documentary makers, and scientific researchers can sometimes get an entry permit. The first discovery and mention of this island was made by a Spanish Manila galleon captain, Andrés de Arriola, in 1694. It was charted in Spanish maps as Sebastián López, after Spanish Admiral Sebastián López, victorious in the battles of La Naval de Manila in 1646 against the Dutch. Its exact location was left unrecorded until further sightings in the 19th century. Japanese explorer Shinroku Mizutani led a group of 46 colonists from Haha-jima to settle on Marcus Island in 1886. The settlement was named Mizutani after the leader of the expedition. The US claimed it in 1889 as part of the Guano Islands Act, but this was ignored by Japan and were annexed as part of the then Empire of Japan in 1898. The island has been called Minamitorishima ever since. They built the meteorological station in 1935. After WWII, it was under American control in 1952. The island was returned to Japanese control in 1968, but the US still controlled the airstrip and station until 1993.

@cbx3323 Жыл бұрын

I am a construction worker and have been to that island on business. Preparing to mine underground resources.

@sunmock 28 күн бұрын

9:09, I don't get it, parts of Korea are less than 60km from Japan's Tsushima islands. Mainland Korea is only 180km away from Honshu. How is the Mariana islands closer than Korea?

@Naumovych_Dmytro 6 күн бұрын

Because it's closest to Tokyo, not to Japan in general, as was said in video

@Zestieee Жыл бұрын

Hiya, just found your channel. I assume your name, "Signore Galilei", is meant to mean "Lord/Mister Galilei". If that's the case, I feel like I should correct you. In Italian, we use the apocope'd form of the word when addressing or citing someone by their name, so it would really be "Signor Galilei", without the final E. If not, well, I'd love to know more about the meaning. "Signore" is also the plural of "Signora" so it could mean "Galilei Ladies". Hope this helps.

@SignoreGalilei Жыл бұрын

Hey, thanks. Another Italian speaking viewer pointed this out to me a while ago, you're correct about what the meaning was originally intended to be. I've been using this username longer than I've been on KZfaq, so there wasn't anyone who would have known to correct me when I first made it. Since I heard it was grammatically incorrect I've been thinking of it as two separate statements that someone's calling out, like "Signore! Galilei!". I know that's still kind of silly though.

@mikeneko3076 Жыл бұрын

2:10 丸の中心は確かに東京ですが、この大きさの丸は関東平野を指すものであり、実際の東京の大きさは2回りほど小さいです。

@catdemon922 Жыл бұрын

Wait how do you already have 25k subs and getting sponsors? I remember when you had less than 1k. Great job dude

@SignoreGalilei Жыл бұрын

Hey, thanks! It's kind of hard to believe it myself. It's only been a bit more than a year since I first hit a thousand subscribers, but I've had a few runaway successes that have caught people's attention. I'm excited to see where the channel goes in the future.

@v1x4z Жыл бұрын

I looove seeing small niche channels like this getting sponsors

@marklangager8817 Ай бұрын

Nicely done! I noticed that you didn't include Guam (which, though considered part of the Mariana Islands, is a territory of its own, separate from the Northern Marianas that you included). Is that because it was not part of the South Seas Mandate or the UN Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands? Certainly that does not seem to be the case, since it's located right there between the other two and is now a US territory. Also, Japan famously occupied Guam during WWII and Guam's annual July celebration of "Liberation Day" (from the Japanese occupation) is always more robust than July 4th US Independence Day (go figure). But I believe Japanese inclusion of Guam (had Japan not lost the war) would have had some serious merits, including the obvious underwater extension of the Ogasawara Ridge it lies on and the certain Japanese development of local agriculture, which America has failed miserably to do, sufficing economic development (and fostering a social license for huge military bases) with monetary handouts. But things are as they are and the geopolitical world can be a scary jungle these days. It just seems like Guam deserves to be a full fledged state of whatever country occupies it, in our universe, the US... Anyway, truly interesting video!

@towgod7985 2 ай бұрын

If you follow the Ryukyu island chain, you end at Formosa /Taiwan. Would that fact make them part of Japan? And less likely part of China?

@elephia Жыл бұрын

From my Japanese point of view, the pronunciation is excellent!

@SignoreGalilei Жыл бұрын

Thanks! I tried to practice everything a few times before saying it.

@BuzzSargent Жыл бұрын

Thank you for putting things in Miles. Makes it easier to visualize the size of the islands for me.

@SignoreGalilei Жыл бұрын

You're welcome! Just over half of the viewers on this channel are from the US, so I've been trying to find the right way to put in both US and metric units without taking up too much time.

@user-uf5wc1uc8i 2 ай бұрын

I'm Japanese. Thank you for the wonderful video. There are various territories in dispute, but the video was very good because it was written neutrally from the perspective of a third party. Thank you for explaining the history of the background.

@Neasyorc Ай бұрын

Dokdo is korea.

@tsukioka9643 Жыл бұрын

2:11 toyko lol

@woo1818 Ай бұрын

You forgot the great state of Manchukuo in Northwestern Taiwan

@Hohogamercoolkids2015 2 ай бұрын

how do people forget about the Kuril Islands?

@EdbertWeisly Жыл бұрын

5:39 I'm so proud of you

@SignoreGalilei Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@moistsnail7681 Жыл бұрын

🎵 How did this happen? 🎶

@SignoreGalilei Жыл бұрын

In the year negative a billion...

@nikolaipdestro Жыл бұрын

Okidaito-jima is the almost exact antipode from my city, here in 🇧🇷

@SignoreGalilei Жыл бұрын

Cool!

@GTA-iu1ok Жыл бұрын

Sea of japanと呼び始めたのは日本ではなくスペインかポルトガル人が最初だったはず

@user-bo7oi9dy7p 5 ай бұрын

ロシア帝国ね

@GTA-iu1ok 5 ай бұрын

@@user-bo7oi9dy7p 日本の政府が出してる動画で言ってますよ

@pityssauro7374 2 ай бұрын

Don't get confused, the Portuguese empire arrived in Japan first, not the Spanish

@GTA-iu1ok 2 ай бұрын

@@pityssauro7374 どっちも同じような国だからこんがらがって分からなくなる

@TheStormglass Ай бұрын

It's a simple story: a long time ago, Westerners named it the Sea of Japan for navigation purposes, and today it is officially called the Sea of Japan. (Like the Indian Ocean or Arabian Sea) The people of the Korean Peninsula do not want to call it the "Sea of Japan" due to past grudges, so they are only insisting on it now. In fact, it makes no claims about the Yellow Sea on the opposite Chinese side.

@Rolf-son-of-an-electrician Ай бұрын

You forgot to add Manchuria

@SignoreGalilei Ай бұрын

Well Japan did take it over but it's not exactly an island

@kojiyaw Ай бұрын

I was messing with Google Earth and was surprised that some islands just under Taiwan was still Japanese

@MichaTheLight Ай бұрын

what is with Okinawa?

@Jobe-13 Жыл бұрын

Pretty awesome. Lately I’ve been imagining if Japan had been a larger island encompassing the main islands and the Nampo/Ryukyu islands.

@stevend285 Жыл бұрын

new fun fact to add to my collection, that the US is the closest foreign nation to Tokyo.

@SignoreGalilei Жыл бұрын

Happy to add to your collection!

@matthewtopping2061 Ай бұрын

Who else thought this was going to be Bill Wurtz at first?

@Mute_Nostril_Agony 8 ай бұрын

Hokkaido is a Territory not a Prefecture. You also forgot some of the big islands like Sado

@piano_beginner 10 күн бұрын

The word "prefecture" in Japan is a bit complicated Prefectures (to dou fu ken) =. Tokyo, Hokkaido, Osaka, Kyoto, Tokyou (to), Hokkaido, Osaka (fu), kyoto (fu) and the other 43 prefectures (ken).

@Mute_Nostril_Agony 10 күн бұрын

I was always told: 1 to (capital), 2 fu (mega cities), 1 do (Hokkaido- a territory) and 43 Ken (prefecture). Hokkaido is rare in having sub prefecture (shichō). When writing an address, you write "Hokkaido " not "Hokkaido-ken"

@dev9100-luv-the-world 7 ай бұрын

Interesting

@cprice2011 Жыл бұрын

2:12 Toyko?

@SignoreGalilei Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I somehow missed that typo. I put a correction in the description.

@PunctualRailroad 10 ай бұрын

8:01 The map of the world as Japanese view, Russia's Sakhalin district has only northern Sakhalin(Karafuto) islands. Southern Sakhalin and Kuril islands (from Shumshu 占守島 to Urup 得撫島) are the territories which countries NOT DETERMINED INTERNATIONALLY (Not Japan nor Russia). Of course so-called "Northern territories 北方領土 Hoppo Ryodo", which means Etorofu-to 択捉島 (Iturup), Kunashiri-to 国後島 (Kunashir), Shikotan-to 色丹島 (Shikotan) and Habomai-Gunto 歯舞群島 (Habomai) are ALL regarded as Japanese territories. If you travel to Hokkaido, please watch the map. Almost maps of Hokkaido draws not only Hokkaido main island but also so-called Northern territories. (Some maps are partially cut off or deleted because of its space.) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qsibfJV9zJ7UkZs.html

@SignoreGalilei 10 ай бұрын

It's always interesting to see how different countries assert their sovereignty in map form. I'll keep that in mind.

@jameshitselberger5845 10 ай бұрын

@@SignoreGalileiYu will see a much larger mainland China in Taiwanese government maps...Mongolia, Tana Tuva, and perhaps other regions along the Russian border and the borders of China's southern neighbors are included as part of China. No one should say that the government in Taipei is any less nationalistic than the one in Peking..Peiping as it is spelled on Taiwanese maps.

@marym7104 Жыл бұрын

Within 2 days!

@Neasyorc Ай бұрын

Liancourt Rocks is wrong. It’s Dokdo. Dokdo is Korea.

@TON618_chan 2 ай бұрын

fun fact : therse a island called *soviet* witch its half of japanese make that as a countryball (not half maybe)

@U-qho Ай бұрын

You learn geography off countryball 😂

@FilAnd01 7 ай бұрын

This is really more a nitpick than anything else but japan DOES claim all of the kurils, and the southern half of Sakhalin, just not actively. They are currently only contesting the southern 4 Kuril Islands, but they never acknowledged soviet ownership over the Kurils and southern Sakhalin. I think the government position is sort of “the southern kurils were a part of Hokkaido before the war so we should have them back. Russia doesn’t rightly own Sakhalin and the Kurils but we’re not actively contesting them and it’s a matter for another time” The reason Russia got to annex Sakhalin and the Kurils (minus the southern Kurils which are illegally occupied according to international law) is the yalta conference which Japan claims doesn’t apply to them since it was “only a statement of intent” and “Japan didn’t agree to the terms”, and that since the Soviet Union didn’t sign the San Francisco treaty, wherein japan renounced their claims to Sakhalin and the Kurils, the soviets (now Russia) don’t own the land legally.

@naniwa111 Ай бұрын

Interesting 🤔

@lexuanhai6999 Ай бұрын

I thought the video would be about the current islands that Japan owns that not many knows about, but half of the video is just what Japan used to own

@flyingbirdtat-mg1lh Жыл бұрын

People in Hawaii also wantedto be in Japan

@user-ss4xv1dm7p Жыл бұрын

japan bomb hawaii , so it is "historically" japanese islands lol

@user-uu7lk2pl9q Жыл бұрын

I know there are many people who don't like Japan.However, as a Japanese, there is a lot of information about mistakes in the comments section and some people pretend to be Japanese that they don't like.Therefore, I would like you to look into it by yourself.

@v1x4z Жыл бұрын

I felt so smart in high school when I was the only one who correctly answered how many islands in total Japan consists of in a Kahoot! :D I wonder how would Japan look today if it never opened up its borders or if they never closed them in the first place

@SignoreGalilei Жыл бұрын

Kahoots are great. It would be interesting to see what Japan would have done had it been more open - could've gone well or poorly for them.

@champan250 Жыл бұрын

@@yuyoshida2076 if Japan never closed off that extremely, it probably will go down a similar path as Qing China, since the Japanese elites won't demand a complete revamp on the traditional system.... As a result, it is unlikely Japan will own these outlying islands and Ryukyu will likely remain an independent kingdom

@yuyoshida7359 Жыл бұрын

@@champan250 Japan probably would have been colonized by foreign powers, being unable to adjust to Western society, technology and culture. The outer islands would also be subject to similar treatment, including what would have been of the Ryukyu Kingdom. But I don’t think this would ever affect Edo period Japan to annex the Ryukyu Islands, since we’re talking about the changes after 1853, and the European powers of that time had zero interest in national independence of previously annexed countries.

@champan250 Жыл бұрын

@@yuyoshida7359 as you said... The colonial power will come in and conquer Ryukyu Kingdom before the less extremely Westernized Meiji govt and Qing China can do anything about it

@freeculture Жыл бұрын

Its explained in a video on yt, about the Samurai that went to the Pope and became Christian. The idea was to ally with one of the western powers (guns) to stop the others, and becoming catholic christian was part of the process. But, the English intervened to seed poison against the Catholics, claiming they were aiming to seize power. This backfired because the then new Shogun ruler (Tokugawa) banned anything foreign since for them it was clear those savages were conspiring against the State with their religion. The most impressive part is that this was erased from Japan's history and they didn't know until the 20th century that indeed a Samurai with a highest diplomatic mission went there by orders of a Daimyo who could have ended seizing power with western weapons from the others and changed history.

@shinsenshogun900 Жыл бұрын

Return of the Signore! Japan will know and grow larger!

@SignoreGalilei Жыл бұрын

It's always exciting for me when I can get a new video out - glad to see you're excited too!

@cadendance976 Жыл бұрын

it is a challenge to find anything about taiwan due to china blocking it

@NON155 Жыл бұрын

HOW ABOUT ( The Exsplain Of .) U.S.A STATES BORDER MAPS HISTORY WHEN PAST KEEP CHANGING IT...

@ender7278 10 ай бұрын

You didn't mention the Ryukyus or any other islands between Kyushu and Taiwan.

@SignoreGalilei 10 ай бұрын

I talked about the Ryukyu islands while discussing Okinawa.

@Edyime Ай бұрын

How can you talk about Japan's other islands and not have a fat section about the Okinawa island chain

@nickelshark8163 Ай бұрын

I know, he didn't mention the Yaeyama islands where I live. 😢

@Kalimaty Жыл бұрын

Great job! I'm gonna start making vids on administrative divisions, maybe check them out :)

@NanobanaKinako Жыл бұрын

Tokyo's territorial area is so bizarre that they put those island as part of the city.

@Bighatman Жыл бұрын

I am from Japan myself and I found this to be very helpful

@laptopkiller2861 Жыл бұрын

you're not though

@Bighatman Жыл бұрын

But I am? You have no proof?

@shinsenshogun900 Жыл бұрын

@@Bighatman Name your prefecture and circuit region, sir

@Gameinger16 Жыл бұрын

Why the fuck is this person's legitimacy as a citizen of Japan being questioned lol.

@Bighatman Жыл бұрын

@@shinsenshogun900 thing is I don’t live in Japan

@hattamimie Жыл бұрын

Hokkaido head of japan map

@Inspadave Жыл бұрын

It should be the Sea of Japan, because the Japanese archipelago defines the sea. Even China refers to it as the Japan Sea.

@SignoreGalilei Жыл бұрын

I mean that makes some sense. It's not the only sea with multiple names though (the Persian/Arabian Gulf comes to mind).

@GTA-iu1ok Жыл бұрын

To begin with, it was the Spanish or Portuguese, not the Japanese, who began calling this area the Sea of Japan.

@meshirua Жыл бұрын

这件事确实很可笑，因为在古代日本对于这个“地中海”也有着独特的称呼，在古代日本人将其称之为北海，现代国际地理学将其称为日本海这事情实在是令人觉得很可笑。

@meshirua Жыл бұрын

将其称之为北海是最能够被所有人接受的。

@GTA-iu1ok Жыл бұрын

@@meshirua Could you tell that to the Portuguese or Spanish people who used to sail through the Sea of Japan in the past?

@ViktorTsoi2004 Ай бұрын

Forgot Shandong in WWI

@andrypatria Жыл бұрын

I thought it was bill wurtz video

@SignoreGalilei Жыл бұрын

I've gotten that comment on previous videos, which is why I explicitly called it out this time.

@AverytheCubanAmerican Жыл бұрын

I knew about the islands administered by the Tokyo Metropolis, but it's absolutely crazy how the city's jurisdiction is even bigger than we think! And something interesting to point out regarding Chichijima: During WWII, an incident took place there in 1944. Nine American pilots escaped from their planes after being shot down during bombing raids. Eight of them were captured and were all killed, with four being straight up cannibalized (on orders from Lt. Gen Yoshio Tachibana). So the question is, what happened to that ninth pilot? Well, that ninth pilot, who was twenty years old at the time and narrowly escaped...ended up becoming the 41st President of the US, GEORGE H W BUSH! This case was investigated in 1947 in a war crimes trial, and of the 30 Japanese soldiers prosecuted, four officers were found guilty. Vice Admiral Mori Kunizo was also involved (and claimed human liver had health benefits) but was only sentenced to life imprisonment for it until he too got sentenced to death as the result of war crimes in the former Dutch East Indies.

@SignoreGalilei Жыл бұрын

That's a great piece of history. I think I remember seeing that on Rare Earth, if I recall.

@vistalover9607 Ай бұрын

1:51 Well Ainu situation isn’t wonderful but it’s been centuries upon centuries in the works so it’s not the worst. Also Matsumae clan was part Ainu. Lastly, at least Ainu’s in Japan exist. The Ainu in Russia don’t exist at all, despite almost 90% of their homeland being in the now Russian parts of Asia. Japan wants the Chishima islands back (4 southern Kurile islands which were never Russian in history until after WWII) partially as they are inportabt Ainu homes. But yeah doesn’t matter, nobody cares about Ainu. I spoke to a couple Ainu and they are quite practical people. Made me think hard about culture.

@VishalKhopkar1296 2 ай бұрын

you forgot senkaku islands... btw Japan is so spread that the southernmost point of Japan is farther south than Karachi in pakistan

@SignoreGalilei 2 ай бұрын

That's a pretty cool fact! I mentioned the Senkaku Islands at 6:53.

@yudiaodao Жыл бұрын

島の管理に困った時は日本に渡してください😂

@VinnyNajera-zn7th 7 ай бұрын

Well we should know how many islands and told him does Japan have the ones you just show what the yellow circle around it not the ones next to it not the ones on the Japanese Nation island.

@CloseYourEyes-ur5ny 8 ай бұрын

I’m confronting territories

@BioluminescentTree Жыл бұрын

Ah yes, the great city of Toyko 🤦‍♂️

@SignoreGalilei Жыл бұрын

...whelp. I knew I was gonna miss something.

@marym7104 Жыл бұрын

Within 10,200 views!

@JackManic1984 Ай бұрын

It's pronounced "queue shoe." Kyushu.

@j.n.-fr5uh Жыл бұрын

Toyko

@justinganaden7149 Жыл бұрын

South Sakhalin doesn't sound Japanese to me!

@lluckylll777 Жыл бұрын

Tibet Uyghur Inner Mongolia Manchuria doesn’t sound Chinese to me

@ballsgaming6652 Жыл бұрын

@@lluckylll777 It’s funny because this comment has nothing to do with this comment which is a Straw Man Fallacy.

@hoanghai8354 Жыл бұрын

@@lluckylll777Scotland doesn't sound English to me

@SGE62 7 ай бұрын

@@lluckylll777thats because you speak english mf

@user-hf6fh2hm4h 4 ай бұрын

South Sakhalin＝Minami Karafuto(南樺太)

@svihl666 Жыл бұрын

9:38 / 9:48

@bernhardt1557 Жыл бұрын

For the love of god make the volume higher

@Inumori_kaede Жыл бұрын

🇯🇵我が国日本国についてすごい知っていますね。🇯🇵 日本の領土名歴史もすごいあっています! あと日本とアジアの領土問題というものがありまして､日本🇯🇵と韓国(朝)🇰🇷に挟まれている､竹島は日本の領土ですが、韓国は自分の領土だ!と主張し､不法に占領しています。😢 日本と中国と台湾の近くにある､尖閣諸島は同じく日本の領地です。ですが中国(中)🇨🇳と台湾(台)🇹🇼はこれは私たちの領地だ! と主張しています。日本北部にある北方領土は私たち日本🇯🇵の領地ですが､ロシア(露)🇷🇺が不法に占領しています😡 これら4つの領土問題は今でも悩まされています…( ･ᯅ･ )

@AdvardNigma 8 ай бұрын

Japan should return to its native harbor (Russia)

@robertolin4568 Ай бұрын

Somehow I can see bill wurtz in the thumbnail

@malkavianloner8808 Ай бұрын

waaaaay too quick. not much info... just a quick recap would love to hear more about them with not just more details, but a bit more focus on the battle info and the names. waaaaaaaaaaaay too breif

@zhaomengyu028 Жыл бұрын

FREE Ryukyu kimdom

@knpark2025 Ай бұрын

6:50 The official stance of S. Korean government (and of course the people) of *Dokdo* (a.k.a. Liancourt Rocks) is clear: the island was excluded from Japan's administrative area during the 1945-1951 period with the rest of the Korean Peninsula and its surrounding Islands, and calling it "contested" is a direct objection to the decision made by the GHQ. The only people who think Dokdo is actively "contested" are either Japanese revisionists, or people who are misled by sources made by those revisionists. It's like raising a German contested claim on Memel in the 21th Century, and unlike Memel Dokdo even had nothing to do with Japan except for that period of three dozen years when Japan annexed Korea. It is just ridiculous.

@PeterNygard69 Жыл бұрын

7:10 Japan actually did acquire the Liaodong peninsula after the Sino-Japanese war, although they lost it quickly after due to the triple intervention. Just a fun fact

@SignoreGalilei Жыл бұрын

Cool, thanks for sharing!