南にはバシー海峡，台湾海峡が繋がる。大戦末期，制空権／制海権を失い，南方との間で人と資源/物資を運ぶ日本の船は，この海域で米軍に大量に沈められ，日本が破れる主な要因の一つとなった。この海域の（日本にとっての）重要性は実は今も全く変わらない。つまり....＠台湾最南端 The Bathy Strait and the Taiwan Strait connect to the south. in the latter part of WW2, Japan lost the aerial/naval supremacy, and many ships which carried people or resources etc. from/to the south, were sunk in this area by US Navy, and that became one of the main causes of Japan's defeat. The importance of this area (for Japan) is actually not changed at all. That means....@Southernmost tip of Taiwan