Alexander Bukh is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the author of Japan's Identity and Foreign Policy: Russia as Japan's 'Other' (2009) and the producer and co-director of the documentary This Island Is Ours: Defending Dokdo/Retrieving Takeshima (2016).

Introduction
1. Japan's "Northern Territories"
2. Shimane Prefecture's Quest for Takeshima
3. The "Protect Dokdo" Movement in South Korea
4. Taiwan's "Protect the Diaoyutai" Baodiao Movement
Conclusion