20 août 2019
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Christophe Sabouret, « Why did the Japanese not colonise Hokkaido sooner? », CNRS Éditions, ID : 10.4000/books.editionscnrs.12741
March 2010 Why did the inhabitants of Honshû, the main island of Japan, colonise Hokkaido (the northern island of the Japanese archipelago) in the middle of the 19th century? It is “because the Japanese were not prepared to emigrate to Hokkaido than to the rest of the world”, Augustin Berque replies (Vivre l’espace au Japon, 1982.) Why were the Japanese not “that way inclined”? Katô Shûichi (1919-2008), quoted by A. Berque, explains it in his latest book. The Isle of Hokkaido, Katô states, “r...