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Japan is an amazing, unique, and interesting place. And I love looking at all sorts of maps of Japan.

Been to Japan twice. It is a beautiful country with very friendly people.

1:44 i love how japan prefectures flag are so Unique And the country flag is so simple

Small typo, the name of the prefecture next to Tokyo with a high minimum wage is kanagawa not kaganawa

I lived in Japan and I miss it so much. I use to just walk endlessly just looking around and enjoying such a old and different culture

I adore Japan and the Japanese cultures.

Great video as always.

Love what you say at the start :) Japan is wonderful! Not as into it as I used to be but still love it! Especially Okinawa!

If you love maps, have you ever heard of the franco-german show "le dessous des cartes" (litterally "the under maps" or something like that) it explain geopolitical situations through maps

I can't make this up, some of these flags remind me so much of the thousands of companies that originated here, and these flags capture that concept. Love it!

started watching your vids, they're very interesting and nice!

A note on the map of "Buddhist households in Japan" -- since it went by fast. It represents data from exactly 100 years ago (1922), and also only represents one sect of one form of Buddhism (the Jodo Shinshu "denomination") -- which is the biggest, but certainly not all the Buddhists.

Live here since 4 years, amazing country

Hello from Japan! Thank you sooo much for this very very detailed explanation!

Thanks for your work!

My Dream destination! Thanks for the great video!

This was a great video! You should make a map comparison video on North vs South Korea if you haven’t already.

Another great, informative video. Thanks for helping share our mission! For those who want to be better informed and spot media bias, check out the link in the description.

On the minimum wage map at 5:00+ it would be great to add a comment that it's payment PER HOUR (I assume) and convert to USD for anyone's easy understanding.

Great video, and thank you for making a video about our country! One mistake I'd like to correct: 5:06 you mentioned "Kaganawa", which I believe you misread "Kanagawa" (神奈川)- a prefecture south of Tokyo, characterized by port cities in the east and hot springs in the west.

Thanks for the great video! from a Japanese🇯🇵 Just wanted to point out, at 5:12 it’s Kanagawa not Kaganawa (I know, it’s difficult), and based on the map, Nara should be light green, not orange, because Nara is located just south east to Osaka. BTW, the minimum wage has increased from this October, bringing Osaka above ¥1000, while Kochi (along with 9 prefectures) is now ¥853.

Amazing country... Can't wait to go again...

I love your work, and as a teacher of Japanese I will be using this video in classes in the future because it's awesome! Just one small thing I noticed. At 1:16 when you say "In Okinawa..." the arrow on the screen is pointing at Sado Island, not Okinawa. I'm not sure if that's an accident from an earlier comment when you were talking about military bases but it threw me the first time I watched. Maybe changing where the arrow points prior to 1:16 so people don't think you've confused Sado Island for Okinawa Island might help?

Awesome!! :)

As a foreigner who currently lives in Japan, these maps are very fascinating. Makes you want to root for the prefecture where you live to to better.

Oooo - can you do one on Canada (if you haven't already?). I think adding mining (ores, precious metals, oil, gems), forestry, and other natural resource acquisition and overlaying it with territorial control (and maps of First Nations' areas). Also transport - north to south vs east to west, and population /vs/ cost of living /vs/ education /vs/ wealth.

Very educational, thank you

Love Japan from Turkiye 🇹🇷❤️🇯🇵

Good video. I think if you travel throughout Japan as I have, you would also point out that most of Japan seems to be a 10 to 20 km wide coastal plain with cities, rice and other agriculture that quickly stops at steep mountains. The interior of Honshu is very mountainous. I peddled my son's bicycle from Shibata City 5 km from the coast near Niigata, through the city, suburbs but soon through rice paddies, then at about 8 km up the valley narrowe, the road became steeper and then at 20 km into the mountains. At 35 km I was deep into the mountains, completely alone and where I noticed signs that bears had clawed and gnawed at a wooden sign. Macaques were about 5 km before this point. Quality of life is interesting. I was at student presentation where two girls suggested Japan should be more like Disneyland. This puzzled me because there is no place on the planet more like Disneyland than Japan. It's a wonderful place. But then my son pointed out, "You're not working 70 hour weeks." And that's the problem of Japan. To me it explains the low birthrate: Why bother bringing children into a world where they will be overworked and bored (while the economy is still in a 30 year stagnation)?

I moved to Japan almost 10 years ago now, and I really love living here. Also, I live by a Japanese military base, which I feel like is something that many people don't think about being around with all the focus on the American bases.

nice video

都道府県旗のビデオも素晴らしかったですが、今回も本当によくまとめられていると思いました。HDRで飾られた美しい日本像より、自分はこういう側面を、外国の皆さんにはもっと知ってほしいと思っています。日本は地域ごとに自然、観光や文化、歴史、美味しい食べ物も様々なので、機会があれば是非そのようなことも調べてみてください😊

I didn't realize this video was posted a few minutes ago

The land of the rising sun, would love to visit some day! Please make a video about Portugal, the first europeans to set foot in Japan. Great channel, by the way!

Your pronunciation of city names is very good :))

It might be accent or language mix, but in Taiheiyo, the "h" is not silent. "Hei" would be similar to "hey" in English.

thanks

Today I briefly heard coworkers discussing how the layout of Paterson, NJ is modeled after Washington, DC… both by Alexander Hamilton.. both in a spoke-style. Then I looked into it (only a little) and learned the the map of DC is full of the golden ratio and circles. Interesting. Thought you might like to look into it!

I'd appreciate one about Italy.

4s in, had to pause the video and rewatch an oldy but goldy for the bazillionth time.

6:35 No, they had a problem with a Tsunami. That's a bit different then "having problems with nuclear power plants". If people don't want to power itself with coal, then nuclear is the only real option (if one takes climate protection seriously of course). What will not happen is that Japan goes dark like North Korea.

LOVE Maps

gotta love the bill wurtz reference

Can you please do one of these for Australia if you haven't???

Putting a red border around the thumbnail is a mistake. It looks like the progress bar at the bottom of a video already seen. When I saw this, I didn't remember reading it, I looked more closely and the red bar went all the way across, but then I saw it was a relatively new video. Then I noticed the red goes up the sides too. In years to come, people are just going to assume they already saw it long ago. And at 7:07, I think yellow does not mean "operating". It means "doesn't meat new standards" but is not decommissioned (they may restart some day). The nine red ones are operating (or temporarily offline for maintenance). The seven blue ones have passed the new standards and could start up soon. Three green ones are under construction. 24 are out.

I'm Japanese! Some I knew, some I didn't before, it's interesting for me! Thanks!!

i love the bill wurtz reference at the begining

Japan is Love, Japan is Life

6:36 - I’m guessing an overlay showing nuclear plant locations vs pop. density would reveal an inverse relationship 😅

*b e a u t i f u l*

Please could you do one of these videos for Ireland, Denmark, Norway, France, and the Netherlands.

The 2n high income prefecture is Kanagawa not Kaganawa. ;)

maybe it would be good to make a video like this for some regions, for example Scandinavia, Central Asia or Central america. I think that continents hide nuances, and some smaller countries are too small to tell us much. that's why I think that more small countries would portray the balance of power between them!

i wonder if you would like to visit Switzerland in one of your superb videos?

Woohoo! I'm one of the 90,072 foreigners in Osaka!

5:06 "Kanagawa" is correct. Not Kaganawa :)

Not exactly a mistake, more of an inconsistency. Some of the maps included the Northern Territories (as they are called by Japan) in them, some didn't - specifically, the four islands (plus surrounding islets, EEZ, etc.) that are currently disputed with Russia. I imagine information for them is simply not included in sources that come from outside Japan, or where the information is not reasonably accessible?

middle left flag the one that has the little crescent moon looks very familiar.... 1:53

Are the Taiheiyo belt cities connected in terms of transportation, so you could feasibly get from one end to the other as if it was one continuous city?

Wait! Are you also the one who made the famous history of Japan video in youtube?

The Bill Wurtz reference put a smile in my face

I lived in Korea and Japan but felt Korea was more mountainous. however Korea's are old fold not new fold so are smaller. Korea doesn't have large planes like Japan does. In Tokyo to our can't see any mountains but in Korea there is nowhere you can't see mountains

do one on Germany pls

New Zealand next?

3'31 Grniinn news?

Early!

There is also a city named kochi in india

Your first map is incorrect. Camp Zama, a US army installation is right outside of Tokyo. Mt Fuji is also visible from post

Should mention their North-South power grid too

What exactly is "clutter" in the societal clusters? The riff raff?

The map in thumbnail in the right is wrong I used to live in Sendai and its in Honshu island north of tokyo kanto prefecture not in the s0uthern kyoshu islands as shown in the thumbnail.☺️

Olá! Arigato gozaimasu!

Correction: The map you showed at 7:27 is NOT 'precentage of buddhist households'. It's 'percentage of buddhist households affiliated with Jodo Shinshu', which is more like 'percentage of christians affiliated with the methodist church.'

Anime, Manga, H-anime, H-manga, Godzilla, Gamera, samurai, ninjas, Shinobi, etc. That's what I think when I hear Japan.

I have Foreign Family In Southern Japan

Where's that link you said you were going to put in the description?

5:40 Talks about long life expectancy in Japan, shows a drawing of an old man in traditional Chinese garb. It’s hella funny to see how little most of us westerners know about Asian cultures. Haha

Daaaamn what a reference to Bill wurtz

0:04 or more like through watching Bill Wurtz's video.

I hope the nuclear plants are well clear of the ocean and none of them in an earth quake region(reference,Pacific Ring of Fire)

Hello!

The Philippines 🇵🇭

6:28 There are no visas for that.

it's Kanagawa not Kaganawa btw

The Bill Wurtz credit at the beginning was to this video: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/g85lf7xlsuCVZaM.html

We could learn a lot from Japan, a society that is at peace with itself.

Japan IS Beautiful

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So ALL Japan's nuclear power plants are on the coast, not just Fukushima?

So, outside of YHWHism (Christian/Muslim/Jewish, worshippers of YHWH aka Jehova aka Allah), religion isn’t so much an identity thing. Most people in Japan have Buddhist altars in their homes *and* go to Shinto shrines for New Years (and whenever they feel like praying for something), *and* copy Anglican culture from Hollywood movies for things like weddings, *and* have Buddhist cremations when they die and have monuments in Buddhist ceremonies. You can’t really say that person *is* a Buddhist the way you can say that someone *is* a Christian or Jew or Muslim - e.g. a YHWHist believes that there is no other god but YHWH, that anything else that claims divinity is either fake or a devil, and that anything supernatural that doesn’t originate with YHWH originates with Satan. There is no room for coexistence with them, so that’s their identity. There are tons of different belief systems under the umbrella of Buddhism. Most incorporated gods that were already in places, to a far greater extent than YHWHists did. There are also Buddhist thought paths that don’t involve the supernatural at all. You can “be” a Buddhist atheist. Basically, “being a Buddhist” is an external construct, unless you’re talking about becoming a monk. I mean, celebrating Jesus of Nazareth’s birthday around the Winter Solstice is also an externally imposed construct. It’s your culture (and thanks to Hollywood, it’s now the culture of Japan, too), but it doesn’t come from anything Jesus or YHWH did or said in any source. So just because some Western Buddhists talk about Buddhism in Christian terms, that doesn’t mean it’s not an external construct.

Kanagawa

Fun Fact: Japan is literally 10 years ahead of the rest of the World.

Smash or Pass? (Japan Edition)

japnese or broken knees

I think the minimum wage data is too old. Now every where need to be at least 850yen

Japan should do some land reclamation in the inland sea (seto-naikai) and cut down some of the mountains on the 3 islands surrounding it. That way they will create more living space and more land to farm.

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Its Kanagawa not kaganawa

kaganawa⏩kanagawa😂☺