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Japanese Advance into the Pacific Ocean - The Albatross and the Great Bird Rush (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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Japanese Advance into the Pacific Ocean - The Albatross and the Great Bird Rush (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Series: International Perspectives in Geography, 7
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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' plumage was of high quality and sold
at quite a good price in Europe. The Japanese realized the
advantage of this global trade, and their desire to capture
albatross motivated them to advance into the Pacific. The
exploration of the uninhabited islands had become a fast-moving
trend, defined by the author as the "Bird Rush". As a consequence,
the advance into the Pacific by the Japanese resulted in the
expansion of Japanese territory. The author has interpreted this
Japanese movement into the Pacific by making use of the framework
of three distinct shifts: in the aim of their actions from birds to
guano / phosphate ore, in the agents of action from individual
speculators to commercial capital and then to monopolistic capital,
and from the sea near Japan to the wider Pacific. This concept can
be termed "a view of history centered on the albatross".
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