Japanese Advance into the Pacific Ocean The Albatross and the Great Bird Rush /

• Main Author: Hiraoka, Akitoshi (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: International Perspectives in Geography, AJG Library, 7
• Subjects: Physical geography.; Economic geography.; Japan-History.; Mineral resources.; World Regional Geography (Continents, Countries, Regions).; Economic Geography.; History of Japan.; Mineral Resources.

This book asserts that the albatross was the reason for the advance of the Japanese into the isolated islands in the Pacific after the abolition of the Japanese "closed-door" policy that had been in effect from the seventeenth century to the latter part of the nineteenth century. The birds...

Table of Contents:

• The Albatross and the Territorial Expansion of the Japanese Empire
• From the Decrease of Bird Resources to the Advance into Uninhabited Islands
• The "Bird Rush" and Japanese Advance into the Pacific Ocean
• From Advance into Islands in the South Sea to Invasion: From the Albatross to Guano/Phosphate Ore Mining
• Conclusions.