Northeast Asia: Political - geography.

Northeast Asia: Political - geography. Political Northeast Asia Civilized states have existed in China, on the Korean Peninsula, and in Japan for centuries. In the 1600s Russian colonists began to conquer eastern Siberia from the indigenous peoples who occupied the land. Beginning in the late 1800s, Japan confronted Russia and other neighbors with its own campaign of colonial expansion, and by 1940 Taiwan, the Korean Peninsula, p...