Takahiro Yamamoto - Böcker

Histories of remote islands around Japan are usually told through the prism of territorial disputes. In contrast, Takahiro Yamamoto contends that the transformation of the islands from ambiguous border zones to a territorialized space emerged out of multilateral power relations. Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands, Tsushima, the Bonin Islands, and the Ryukyu Islands became the subject of inter-imperial negotiations during the formative years of modern Japan as empires nudged each other to secure their status with minimal costs rather than fighting a territorial scramble. Based on multiarchival, multilingual research, Demarcating Japan argues that the transformation of border islands should be understood as an interconnected process, where inter-local referencing played a key role in the outcome: Japan’s geographical expansion in the face of domineering Extra-Asian empires.Underneath this multilateral process were the connections forged by individuals. Translators, doctors, traffickers, castaways, and indigenous hunters crisscrossed border regions and enacted violence, exchanged knowledge, and forged friendships. Although their motivations were eclectic and their interactions transcended national borders, the linkages they created were essential in driving territorialization forward. Demarcating Japan demonstrates the crucial role of nonstate actors in formulating a territory.

This volume is the proceedings of the workshop "Singularities in Generic Geometry and Applications — Kobe-Kyoto 2015 (Valencia IV)" — which was held at Kobe University June 3-6 and RIMS, Kyoto University June 8-10, 2015.The workshop was the fourth in a sequence of biennial workshops, which had been started in Valencia (Spain, 2009).The volume consists fifteen original research articles and three survey articles by specialists in Singularity theory and its applications to Differential Topology and Differential Geometry. It is highly recommended to researchers and graduate students who are interested in these areas.Published by Mathematical Society of Japan and distributed by World Scientific Publishing Co. for all markets except North America

This volume is the proceedings of two series of conferences: the 15th Seasonal Institute of the Mathematical Society of Japan, entitled 'Deepening and Evolution of Applied Singularity Theory,' held at Workpia Yokohama in November 2022, and the RIMS long-term workshops conducted from October to December 2022 at Kyoto University's Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences (RIMS), Saitama University, and Kyushu University. Comprising four survey articles and sixteen original research articles, the proceedings present a well-balanced coverage of key topics in Applied Singularity Theory. Each survey is clearly written with sufficiently many examples, and the original papers contain intriguing new results. This volume is therefore highly recommended as a valuable reference for graduate students studying singularity theory as well as for researchers from various fields who wish to explore its applications.Published by Mathematical Society of Japan and distributed by World Scientific Publishing Co. for all markets except North America

The contributing authors, covering such regions as Korea, Manchuria, Taiwan, Siberia, Australia, and the United States, place the question of individual identity in the eyes of the respective governments in dialogue with the global developments of the identification and mobility control practices.