Joey in a National Geographic sweatshirt talking about islands. He's become The Nature Man.

If any unique animals exist on any of those islands I'm sure we'll hear a new Pokémon based off them in the future.

Damn this dlc expansion pack going crazy

1987: That's no island, that's just a big ass rock. 2023: That big ass rock is an island. Repeat that all along the coastline.

7.000 new islands...sounds like 7.000 new "Wacky weekend" streams with Chris and Conner!

It also depends on the tidal level. A lot of island won’t be visible during high tide. We have a lot of “islands” where I live that go completely underwater throughout the day. Most being about half an acre in size.

My understanding is Japan Gov. KNEW that there are more than 6.000 islands in the country, its just that they need to physically check and confirm the existence one by one by deploying the coast guards and that takes such a long time.

No, they are not inhabited. Nothing new has really been discovered, they have just been counted and categorised correctly. Think of it this way. Imagine a tree with many sprawling branches. You can still relatively easily look over the whole tree and see anything living in or on it, but counting and categorising every single branch, not to mention every individual leaf, is a totally different process. When you do count everything, you could probably count it again and find you were wrong, and wrong by a lot depending on how you did it, but for the most part you would have 'discovered' anything of interest.

The one piece is real

So Chris finally paid Konami and Journey Across Japan gets DLC

GPS is a HUGE part of how they could be so much more accurate with this mapping. Navigating the oceans is hard enough WITH GPS, and that's only really been a thing in civilian service for about 20 years.

If there is an island populated by undiscovered indigenous people and Joey gets his way, they are gonna be pissed when they find out the rest of the world is calling their home "Weeb island"

As it says in the news article, I think most are from lakes and rivers that COAST guard just didn't venture in to thus resulting in "unknown" islands which have probably been named and are used for a long time anyways...

Not that surprising. The islands (only in the strictest definition) are trivial to the general public. This still matters for land surveys and likely boat navigation, but it isn't a major deal.

I'd say it's highly unlikely that they didn't know about any inhabited or sizable islands. Mostly this survey was probably to officially count all of them, not actually discover

Japan archipelago: 13 582 islands Finland "land of thousands lakes": 224 661 islands

Congrats Japan on jumping into top 10 at 8th place on the ranking of most islands per country wih 14,125 islands. Sincerely, #1 on the ranking.

Chris on his way to explore the new Japan DLC

These islands weren't actually "discovered". They were known to exist. They just weren't ever properly counted

Dam, Here in America we are still waiting for our DLC. IDK what the Devs are doing

English is not my first language, and I always thought that "survey" only meant "asking people questions", and I was like "who did they survey? fish?" :D

In 1987, after 6852 islands counted, the Japanese coastguard got bored and called it a day

"During the 1987 study, officials listed - by hand - islands with a circumference of at least 100 meters. They used basic technology that often misidentified groups of small islands as one island. They also left out thousands of islands, many of which were within lakes or rivers. They didn't include river sandbanks either, which the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea now recognizes as islands. Plus, volcanic activity has led to the creation of more islands since the study over 35 years ago. For the recount, geographers used advanced mapping technology and cross-referenced with past aerial photos." This isn't surprising at all lol

(almost forgot) With the 7,000 new Islands for Chris Abroad, Conner, an Anime man.. we might be oh so lucky enough to get 7,000 new Dr.Jelly advertisements!!

Fun Fact: Sakurajima used to be an island until the 1914 eruption turned it into a peninsula.

The longer this video went on the more the more I began to realize that I don’t think Joey understood what these 7000 “new” islands are. Like most of these islands were already known to exist, they just weren’t categorized as islands in the original survey. None of them are large enough to be inhabitable. And there’s a high chance a large portion of them are completely submerged during high tide/when the water level rises. They didn’t just “show up” out of nowhere

Not gonna lie it would be funny if one of the island that can barely fit a house, would be named either "hermit" island or "hikikomori vacation" island.

This sounds like the beginning of a Real Life One Piece Romance Dawn Era xDD

You realize this is really more about rights to resources and political battling with China than caring about the number of islands there are.

Chris - I've been all over Japan Japan - hold my saki Chris your journey across Japan just got harder 🤣

Fun fact: Sweden has about 270 000 islands most in the world.

Joey is unironically my news man to anything Japan, he might as well can do news anchor tbh

I consume more news about Japan than my own country thanks to Joey

The island you refer to is Sentinel island, and the people are the Sentinelese. There's a couple documentary videos on it on KZfaq that are interesting.

Finally POLNAREFF LAND is about to be true

These type of video you make have really become my favorite, joey😊

You can bet Chris will be making a future Journey Across Japan, where he and the crew visit as many of these newly discovered islands as they can! 😉

That's not an L... It's very hard NOT to miss islands. If this survey is repeated decades from now you can be sure they're gonna find more. This is the first time digital mapping was done in Japan as well.

Love the video and keep up the great work joey

i have really missed your reaction on japanese news videos. thank you joey for uploading.

Did the rest of the map just randomly finished rendering in frame😂😂

I swear Chris is partying right now....This is literally new content XD. We want journey across Japan discoving 7000 island edition.

I've been waiting for this patch update!

Amazing video Joey.

rumors said one of these islands contained a giant robot built by an ancient civilization ready to fight invading aliens.

It's all of those random islands the anime characters own for private beaches.

This is where Chris makes videos going to these missed lands but tbh that would be cool to watch.

i love joeys updates

They knew about all of them, they just didn't consider them island at the time. Now they consider any piece of land above the surface during high tide to be an island. So if there is a large rock in the middle of a river, sticking up out of it, it could be considered an island. That is why they said a bunch were in rivers and lakes. The other thing are like sand bars. It is a clerical issue, they didn't discover anything.

Joey being like how could you miss 7000 islands while being from a country who Europeans sailed past without noticing for decades to get to Indonesia. And it was like a century later before the east cost was discovered.

If anyone's wondering, some islands are difficult to define from satellite imagery if they are in shallow areas, like swamps, so ground proofing is important. Especially mangrove canopies in shallow mud wetlands, although lidar has been a huge blessing in aiding in such surveys.

That's nice. Sweden has something like 210 000 islands.

They found the grandline Goda at it again

Nah those new islands were Isekai'd to earth. Reminds me of that manga where the entire Japan was teleported into another world and have to interact with the new surrounding countries. If any of you were wondering the name of the manga its "Nihonkoku Shoukan". It's kind of like GATE but you know without the gate.

I can't help thinking of the Thousand Islands, where the dressing gets its name. There's really closer to two thousand islands in that area that were missed for similar reasons

For those commenting about how Joey wondering if these could be inhabited... yeah of course thats a bit of a hyperbolic assumption ;) But specifically quoted in the article mentioned: 1: when deciding if "some random rock exposed by tide" is an island or not, the SAME CRITERIA was used this time as the old study. Likely this criteria EXCLUDES objects which are only exposed by tide, sandbars, man made objects, buoys, etc. So.. NO.. a small rock formation wouldn't count. Those are navigational hazards. Not islands. ALSO, the criteria very likely has some stipulation on requiring a minimum area of exposure regardless of tide conditions (not counting storms). Ship navigational charts don't just name anything sticking out of the water as an island. 2: The old survey specifically utilized EXISTING maps and navigational charts as the ONLY source of counting, and likely only sent someone out to verify some of the questionable entries. Given that it was only working from existing maps and charts, if some sailor never deemed it necessary (or beneficial, or specifically wanted to HIDE the existence of an island), then it wouldn't have been marked, and thus not counted in the last survey. In otherwords, "not impressive enough to give it a name, not impressive enough to write it down". 3: the last survey excluded most islands within other waterways like lakes and rivers, even if they would have qualified to be classified an island. So, yeah, its highly unlikely any of these are large enough to be inhabited by anyone, certainly not without support (and thus knowledge of their existence). On the other hand, there may be a lot of cases of undeclared islands perpetuated by the status quo ("huh.. that island we just passed isnt marked.. should I mark it? Surely someone else would have done so already if it was supposed to be. I mean.. the captain KNEW it was there. oh well not my problem..."

Did any other Indian's noticed that he's reading this news on NDTV's official webpage 😂😂😂 as a Indian I never saw such a news in my own country's news channel and also "apna bana le" song by arjit singh that ad of jio savan 😂 btw it's a great song u should listen it joey.

That's insane

Actually what it's mean that Japan found new 7000 islands is not like they found new worlds. It's just the difference rule of counting and indeed "real" new islands by eruptions. Formally they only count a land as an island if it at least have 100 meters long. So that will left out so many islets. Now they count every land that above sea level in high tide. So that will included even sandbank.

The Empire of the Rising Sun is still expanding to this day!

The earth is FLAT

I have never seen someone speak with so much authority while simultaneously being so ignorant. The article even explains why there were such discrepancies in the counts

Great video Joey. Could the islands have popped up after the earthquakes in the last 36 years? I really don't think that coast guard would miss 7000 Islands. Maybe you and the gang need to go exploring these islands

In Canada, we have an area called thousand islands, but many of them are uninhabitable due to their size (houses cannot be built on them).

Chris is probably trying to figure out how he will make videos on these islands IF they become open to the public.

How did i happen to find this video in 25 seconde

This story is nuts.i guess they didn't have the technology back then to discover all these islands previously missed.

That's how active the Pacific rim is. Volcanoes are creating new islands all the time. Often these eruptions create an island which is quickly washed away. This happens over and over until the island is stable enough to withstand the ocean. They probably didn't miss all of these. Some number of them are surely new since 1987.

With this reveal, I began to wonder what the largest archipelago is. It seems like my home country of Finland has the biggest one with over 80 thousand islands in a single archipelago

Don't understand the fuss about it. It's completely understandable, well that is if you have some basic understanding of surveying and cartography. GPS, satellite images and digitalisation as said in the article are main root cause. Joey, I like usually your videos, but as a surveyor myself I feel offended by you making joke about something which is just normal in the cartographic world. But maybe it's just for the content?

now every episode that an anime featured the "stranded on a deserted/unmapped island" doesn't seem outlandish in my head anymore.

As per the article it does make mention that islands in lakes and rivers were previously not counted so the number is definitely inflated (like the original number as some of the 6852 islands are barely big enough to support life)

So, this means Japan is technically a bigger country now?

While these islands are unknown, they are likely not unknown and unvisited. They are likely just not mapped correctly but have likely been visited before. Especially given Japans history in WW2, every Island they could find they dropped troops onto. So it would be incredibly strange for them to be unknown unless they are recent volcanic emergence. Also, fisherman have likely known about them the whole time. It's just they were not correctly mapped. So it's unlikely the scenario Joey is thinking of will happen.

We have discovered a lot more than 5% of the oceans the bottom of the ocean has been mapped out pretty well

i would LOVE to go explore these islands!!!

Why does Japan having 7000 new islands remind me of Hunter x Hunter?

Japan 1987: I think we capped our island count. Japan 2023: CAN WE GET MUCH HIGHER

Joey talking about Castaway when the whole point of the movie is that no one did find him on the island. A survivor washed ashore but no search party ever discovered the island he landed on.

Australia stole Eromanga. Japan has to claim that name back.

Let's go boys!! The One Piece is real!!

What how does that even happen? New Japan expansion pack?

I think that in 1987 they looked at a piece of the sea that had less islands, counted the islands there, and multiplied the number by the amount of sea territory they didn’t count.

Wow. That's a lot of islands

What if those islands appeared after that huge earthquake happened ten plus years ago? Maybe they couldn't find them because they were not there before.

It's probably really hard finding an island when you're on a ship that's rocking back and forth in various weather conditions, and they're probably a decent amount apart from eachother. It is surprising they didn't think about looking for more sooner than 40 years.

Yoo. New content for Japan.

Wait, how is this possible? Google maps has existed since 2005, ain't no way we have a satellite scan of the whole world and we missed 7000 islands this entire time??

It's going to blow people's minds when they find out land is constantly being made by underwater volcanos.

Looked into this, they didn't 'miss' them, they just didn't record any islands under a certain size for time saving purposes/to keep a clean looking map. Most are smaller than 100m^2, so they'd be perfect for a little fishing hut and a jetty

What a good youtuber. I think he should start a channel about anime and manga

In 1987 it was a manual survey, but these days we have GIS technology and it even says there in the article it was performed by the Geospatial Information Authority. Pretty much all you need is satellite or aerial imagery and a decent algorithm using GIS software (which you can get open source as well so anyone can do it). This is honestly not surprising.

Chinese: "Mine! Mine! Mine!"

Legally speaking, there are islands, rocks, and low tide elevations, two of which do not generate a territorial line.

Really wonder what Japan will do with that new information

Chris' eyes must've lit up seeing this, I can't wait for Journey Across Japan: Into the Unknown 🤔

Thought I was clicking on a Joe Scott video with that title haha. Profess it, Joey!

Could it be partly that the 2011 earthquake had something to do with it? With that power, it wouldn't be unlikely that land was displaced or revealed because of either the tsunamis or the shock of the earthquake itself.

サクラジマ　goes off almost every year, used to be more but thankfully it’s less frequent.

Japan DLC just dropped. Island edition lets go