EDITORIAL STANCE
Estonia and Japan's Sea of Japan coast — both peripheral, both overlooked, both worth writing about.
We are not experts. We are observers. One small nation, watching another small coast.
BOREAL is a publication by Mederu OÜ.
We write about the Kitamaebune trade, the ports it built, and the Edo-period Japan that made it possible.
We write in English, for European readers who have never heard of any of it.