Japan’s Oil Bunker
Japan spent the first decades of the twentieth century becoming extraordinarily good at carrying bunkers. The country that entered the twentieth century was dramatically different from the Japan […]
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America Is a Pacific Power — You Just Need the Right Map
Americans don’t usually think of the United States as a Pacific country. California is where the country seems to stop, Hawaii floats in a little box somewhere off […]
Putin Goes to the Kurils
On August 13, 2026, Vladimir Putin traveled to Iturup, called Etorofu by Japan, becoming the first Russian president to visit the disputed Kuril Islands. He toured a school, […]
Why Does Everybody Keep Caring About Yap?
Every few decades, somebody looks at a map of the Pacific Ocean and remembers Yap exists. Yap is a small group of islands in the western Pacific, today […]