ABSTRACT
Since 2010, the transnationally institutionalized ocean regime has provided the grounds for reimagining of national territories or breaching of others, lending itself to the creation of a new niche for the reworking of unresolved conflicts in East Asia, materialized in the form of island and seabed disputes. This chapter consider various aspects of such disputes by focusing on Japan, and the redrawing of Japan’s boundaries and its national edges in order to analyze the making and unmaking of transnational trajectories in the region.
