150 2,405.06 I,82I~8l Length of Area Number, coast in in square miles. Korea, annexed in August 1910, is separately noticed.Ĭoast-line.The following table shows the numbers, the lengths of coast-line, and the areas of the various groups of islands, only those being indicated that have a coast-line of at least I ri (23/4 m.), or that, though smaller, are inhabited except in the case of Formosa and the Pescadores, where the whole numbers are given Length of Area Number. Formosa and the Pescadores were ceded to Japan by China after the war of 1894-1895, and the southern half of Sakhalinthe part south of 500 N.was added to Japan by cession from Russia in 1905. There are six large islands, namely Sakhalin (called by the Japanese Karafuto) Yezo or Ezo (which with the Kuriles is designated Hokkaido, or the north-sea district) Nippon (the origin of the sun), which is the main island Shikoku (the four provinces), which lies on the east of Nippon KiUshi or Kyushu (the nine provinces), which lies on the south of Nippon, and Formosa, which forms the most southerly link of the chain.
on the extreme south is Formosa (called by the Japanese Taiwan), which extends to 122 6 E., and to 21 45 On the extreme north are the Kuriles (called by the Japanese Chishima, or the myriad isles), which extend to 156 32 E.
The continent of Asia stretches two arms into the Pacific Ocean, Kamchatka in the north and Malacca in the south, between which lies a long cluster of islands constituting the Japanese empire, which covers 370 14 of longitude and 29 II of latitude. The following article is divided for convenience into ten sections:I. JAPAN, an empire of eastern Asia, and one of the great powers of the world.
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