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Tsushima Island is located west of the Kanmon Strait at a latitude between Honshu and Kyushu of the Japanese mainland. The Korea Strait splits at the Tsushima Island Archipelago into two channels; the wider channel, closer to the mainland of Japan, is the Tsushima Strait.
Tsushima (対馬市, Tsushima-shi) is an island city grouped in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. It is the only city of Tsushima Subprefecture and it encompasses all of Tsushima Island , which lies in the Tsushima Strait north of Nagasaki on the western side of Kyushu , the southernmost mainland island of Japan.
[23] [24] [25] Two days later they began landing on Tsushima Island. The principal landing was made at Komoda beach near Sasuura, on the northwestern tip of the southern island of Shimono. Additional landings occurred in the strait between the two islands of Tsushima, as well as at two points on the northern island of Kamino. [26]
The Tsushima Strait measures approximately 100 kilometres along Tsushima Island and is about 65 kilometres wide at its narrowest. The strait has a depth of about 140 [4] metres and is bounded by the Tsushima Islands to the west through north (of Gotō Islands).
Japanese islands outlined. Japan is an island country of 14,125 islands, ... Tsushima Island: 708.7 273.6: 9: Awaji Island: 592.17 228.64: Seto Inland Sea islands 10:
In 1946, the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers (SCAP) defined Japan to include the four main islands and approximately 1000 nearby islands, including Tsushima. [6] In 1948, the Republic of Korea (ROK) asserted its sovereignty over the island based on "historical claims". [7] In 1949, the SCAP rejected South Korea's claim.
Tsushima Island is located between Japan and Korea. The Tsushima incident occurred in 1861 when the Russians attempted to establish a year-round anchorage on the coast of the island of Tsushima, a Japanese territory located between Kyushu and Korea. [1]
Nagasaki Prefecture was created by merging of the western half of the former province of Hizen with the island provinces of Tsushima and Iki. [2] Facing China and Korea, the region around Hirado was a traditional center for traders and pirates. Kuichi Uchida's image of Nagasaki in 1872