| Budget Amount *help |
¥3,120,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥720,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This is a study on ocean management practices in the waters surrounding insular territories. It defines the impacts these practices have on the current legal order of the sea and analyzes state practices, judicial precedents, and actions taken by the CLCS with the aim of establishing a system for the Int'l Law of Islands. The analysis reveals that the significance of Article 121 of the UNCLOS - the "Regime of islands" that only distinguishes between islands or rocks - has weakened markedly and that a rapid accumulation of new ocean management practices that pertain to specific situations involving remote insular features in spite of that Article. This means that the interests of the int'l community are moving from "What is an island and what is a rock?" to "How do we manage the expansive sea areas established by remote insular features that UNCLOS did not (or could not) address?" In this sense, the study offers one solution for getting us closer to a true "Regime of islands".
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