History of Japan in the Indian Ocean Region

This effectively created on the Indian Ocean.7 another major influence bloc in the region to rival the domination of eastern and western The economic definition of the Indian Europe and the United States.10 Ocean Region has primarily been derived from evidence of trade across the Indian Ocean found For the British, the Indian Ocean was as early as 5000 BCE. [...] The physical geography of this interests in the Indian Ocean Region relating region has dictated the course of human events to sea traffic and the flow of raw materials and until the Industrial Revolution provided man fuels from the littoral nations and hinterlands the machinery to overpower nature with the to industries at home. [...] steamships to travel freely against the prevailing The first was the Pacific route, of which the winds.13 central lane links Japan with Canada and the US, the southern lane with Australia, New Zealand, Japan and the Indian Ocean Region: and the Pacific Islands, and the southeastern The Historical Context lane with South America. [...] The second sea route for Japan’s trade flows was the Indian Ocean By the late 19th centur y, contact between route which connects Japan with the Indian sub- Europe and the countries of the IOR began continent, the Middle East, Europe, and the giving rise to the first wave of nationalist east coast of Africa via the East and South China movements. [...] This phase, also took the position that security in the region however, abruptly ended in late 1973 with the must be left to the nations around the Indian quadrupling of oil prices by the Organization Ocean, be it expanding their naval strength of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in order to maintain peace in the region or and the oil embargo by the Arab states.