From: "aletheiak" <
aletheiak@...>
> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Henry Hirose" <silentcity@h...>
wrote:
> > I found a website, in Japanese, listing all existing cases of
territorial
> > disputes between Japanese prefectures.
> >
> > http://www.geocities.jp/unlocated_area/pref/pref.html
> >
> > There are 20 cases in all. Perhaps the most famous case involves the
> > eastern slope of Mt. Fuji, which may be the only one discernable on non
> > Japanese source maps. The boundary is between Yamanashi and Shizuoka
> > prefectures. There is also the northern slope of Mt. Norikura, between
> > Nagano and Gifu, which has been resolved on 10/5/04. Many of the others
> > involve mountainous areas, which seem odd given the presumed existance
of
> > ridge lines and that these boundaries usually date back over a millenia.
> > There are also cases where land reclamation creates disputed land.
> >
> > I am throwing this out here so that this will be in our archive.
>
> interesting
>
> do you know if any might involve the location of a tripoint
I checked and there are no tripoints among the disputed areas.
HH