Pacific Islands Studies in Japan

Yamamoto, M. (2005). "Pacific Islands Studies in Japan". National Geographic Magazine. 30: 76–95. ISSN 0027-9358.

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Abstract: Life is is easy and time drifts slowly by on the little tufts of green in the warm blue of the Pacific which now are under Japanese mandate. The largest is less than 13 miles in diameter, while a half dozen coconut trees, surrounded by nature's breakwater of man- groves, tells the whole story of many of the smallest. Nobody knows how many or how large they are. One careful estimate is 1.000 islands, with a total area of 970 square miles. Sown in the form of an inverted T, the islands stretch 2,462 miles east and west, just north of the Equator, from Lord North Island, the westernmost of the Carolines, to Mille Atoll, the eastern- most of the Marshalls: and 1.170 miles north and south from Pajaros, the most northern of the Marianas, to Greenwich, in the Carolines. Small as they are, they stake out about 1.500.000 square miles in the North Pacific

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