This story appears in the November 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine ... Most people think of Japan as a compact collection of large islands, but a map of the country shows otherwise.

Published: Tanaka, Ayumu, 2022. "Geographic concentration of foreign visitors: evidence from Japan," International Journal of Economic Policy Studies, Volume 17 (2023), 211-222.

a group of islets claimed by both Japan and South Korea, as Japanese territory. Rikinobu Funasugi, an associate professor of history and geography at Shimane University, revealed the map as ...