Remaking the State: Meiji Japan 1600–1912 and Post-Soviet Russia 1964–2000 · THE MAP IN FEB 1889

Map of Japan in February 1889

The constitution; Ryukyu annexed

Japan in February 1889: The constitution; Ryukyu annexed. Since April 1877, 2 territories changed status on this map: Vietnam (Đại Nam; French Indochina from the 1880s) and Burma (British from 1886).

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Map of Japan in February 1889: The constitution; Ryukyu annexed. Colours show Independent neighbours, Western powers and allies, Meiji Japan and its empire. — FEB 1889 · REMAKING THE STATE: MEIJI JAPAN 1600–1912 AND POST-SOVIET RUSSIA 1964–2000

These maps are reconstructed from published sources · Cliopatria v0.2.1 dated political boundaries · Atlas chapter bibliography and event-specific source record · Joint Japanese–Russian compendium of territorial treaties, 1855–1905 · Natural Earth v5.1.2 complete geographic reference · Natural Earth v5.1.2 disputed-area references · The World and Japan database: official historical treaties

Source details

Cliopatria contributors / Seshat Global History Databank. CC BY 4.0
Maps of History, citing the scholarly bibliography in SOURCES.md. Historical factual reference; no copyrighted prose reproduced
Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Japan and the Russian Federation. Official historical treaty facts
Natural Earth contributors. Public domain
Natural Earth contributors. Public domain
GRIPS / University of Tokyo. Historical official treaty facts; no translated prose copied

Domains in earlier years use the published c.1862 village reconstruction, the nearest available source. Tenryo and rebellion overlays are explicitly regional locators and do not claim cadastral or uniform held territory.

proxy: 1855 treaty extent; Natural Earth 5.1.2 coastline · proxy: 1875 treaty extent; Natural Earth 5.1.2 coastline · reconstruction: 1889 · reconstruction: Chapter route completion/event date · reconstruction: Existing treaty/event date · vector: 1859–1894 · vector: 1860–1894 · vector: 1880–1894 · vector: 1885–1889

Layer records and reconstruction methods

What changes on the map

Vietnam (Đại Nam; French Indochina from the 1880s)	Independent neighbours → Western powers and allies
Burma (British from 1886)	Independent neighbours → Western powers and allies

On the ground

Japan imposed settlements on Korea at Busan in 1876, Wonsan in 1880 and Incheon in 1883.

The chapters of this moment

CH 5 — Meiji Constitution and modernisation

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