Section outline

    • In modern history, we work on clarifying the base issues that accompany the reclamation of the sea surface, as well as the East China Sea Issue (Senkaku Islands dispute) and the South China Sea Issue (power struggle of the sea). We focus on the relationship between national security policy and fisheries. ⇒ In the former, the position of industry and people in the modern nation is clarified by focusing on the theme that concentrates the national policy of the base problems the most and allows us to understand the will of the nation. In the latter, the history and the present state of Japan’s pelagic fishery in an international environment are comprehensively examined by analyzing the fishery from the three perspectives of sovereignty, national power, and law.



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      It was pointed out that fisheries in the waters around the border have been involved in repeated conflicts and power struggles of the sea, even though “the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea” and a binational fishery arrangement were signed.

      　Furthermore, although Japan must take a hard line on territorial issues, it also has to prioritize maintaining international relations. Thus, it was pointed out that unfavorable concessions continue in fishery diplomacy.



    • Survey on the actual situation at the forefront of “borders”
      －Focusing on the interrelation between the East China Sea and the South China Sea－


    •  Fishing village in Zhejiang Province, China. Real estate investment is active and the buildings are crowded.


    •  Manado in Indonesia. Approximately 90% of the local economy, including the underground economy, is thought to be occupied by overseas Chinese.
      Overseas Chinese have also advanced to important positions in local governments (such as judges). Indonesians are also employed by       overseas Chinese in fisheries.
      Many people have found a way out as technical interns in the Japanese fishing boat fishery, which is the course of their social success in life.