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Insularity and Geographic Diversity of the Peripheral Japanese Islands

This book clarifies the geography of the peripheral Japanese islands from a variety of angles. The islands are distributed in the tropical and cool temperate zones, and the most distant inhabited islands are more than 1,000 km from the mainland. In the past, they were Japan's frontier, close to...

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Other Authors: Hiraoka, Akitoshi (Editor), Suyama, Satoshi (Editor), Miyauchi, Hisamitsu (Editor), Sukeshige, Takehisa (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore Springer Nature Singapore 2022, 2022
Edition:1st ed. 2022
Series:International Perspectives in Geography, AJG Library
Subjects:
Human Migration
Geography
Human Geography
Emigration And Immigration
Regional Geography
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Cultural and Social Overview of Japanese Islands
  • Conventional Studies of Japanese Islands
  • Positioning of Islands in Modern Japan
  • Population Flow from/to the Islands
  • Natural Hazard and Island Inhabitants
  • Life Space on Islands
  • Production Space on Islands
  • Tourism Development in Islands
  • Conclusion

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