Japan: An Isolated Island… A Key Global Focus and A Challenge to International Influence due to its Exclusive Economic Zone’s Hidden Resources

Minami Torishima (also known as Southern Bird Island and Marcus Island) is a Japanese coral island, triangular in shape, isolated in the northwestern Pacific Ocean. It hosts a weather station and an airstrip and is uninhabited except for military forces used by the Japanese military as a surveillance station. Recently, its exclusive economic zone has […]