“…The Pacific margin of GSC is fringed by the Phanerozoic subduction-related orogenic belts that features various AGs, ACs, BSs, and ophiolites, for nearly 3 000 km, all the way from the Philippines to Primorye via the Ryukyus, and Southwest/Northeast Japan (Ishiwatari, 1991;Isozaki et al, 1987Isozaki et al, , 2010Isozaki et al, , 2017Isozaki, 1997;Kemkin, Khanchuk, & Kemkina, 2016;Khanchuk et al, 2016;Kojima, Kemkin, Kametaka, & Ando, 2000;Takahashi, 1983; Figure 6). This Phanerozoic orogenic belt generated by oceanic subduction from the Pacific (or Paleo-Pacific or Panthalassan) side was called the Nipponides by Sengör and Natal'in (1996) with respect to the Altaids (named by Suess, 1901 nearly a century before) that corresponds precisely to CAOB.…”