Why 90% of Japan is Empty
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Date: 2025-12-13
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Biblioholic1993
Huh. I was today years old when I learned that Kanto is straight up a geological area of Japan, and the Pokemon's first areas are just the two most humongous population centers. Even connected narrowly by long mountain passes.
Cool cool.
Don't mind these weirdos who don't like the content they clicked on. I watched this video three times so far for their sake and mine, since it's been out, and I love the level of detail here.
Everyone else complaining, meanwhile I'm stoked for basically more harbor-and-plains pair reviews. Huh, there really isn't many left though, huh
Basically the other serious contender of the EXACT topic I am aware of, primarily because unfortunately I started with an American public education, is the relative emptiness of the parts of Washington and Oregon states that are on the eastern side of the Cascades, plus the economic importance of the Puget Sound I am unaware of if Portland possesses an expansively good bay.
You know they almost named that port Boston instead
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Huh. I was today years old when I learned that Kanto is straight up a geological area of Japan, and the Pokemon's first areas are just the two most humongous population centers. Even connected narrowly by long mountain passes.
Cool cool.
Don't mind these weirdos who don't like the content they clicked on. I watched this video three times so far for their sake and mine, since it's been out, and I love the level of detail here.
Everyone else complaining, meanwhile I'm stoked for basically more harbor-and-plains pair reviews. Huh, there really isn't many left though, huh
Basically the other serious contender of the EXACT topic I am aware of, primarily because unfortunately I started with an American public education, is the relative emptiness of the parts of Washington and Oregon states that are on the eastern side of the Cascades, plus the economic importance of the Puget Sound I am unaware of if Portland possesses an expansively good bay.
You know they almost named that port Boston instead
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TheMakoyou
Relocating to uninhabited areas is possible. However, after moving, you must prepare cold-weather gear, rain gear, hiking boots, and a simple tent when purchasing food. You will need to climb steep slopes for approximately five hours. In winter, crampons and additional food supplies are essential. Even so, you should be prepared for the possibility of falling and becoming unidentified.
If you want to live on flat land, be prepared for over 150 earthquakes measuring magnitude 5 or higher. Typhoons, volcanoes, and mudslides are also possible. Don't count on the Japanese government or Japanese people for natural disasters. After all, no one in their right mind would move here without knowing how frequent natural disasters are in Japan.
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Relocating to uninhabited areas is possible. However, after moving, you must prepare cold-weather gear, rain gear, hiking boots, and a simple tent when purchasing food. You will need to climb steep slopes for approximately five hours. In winter, crampons and additional food supplies are essential. Even so, you should be prepared for the possibility of falling and becoming unidentified.
If you want to live on flat land, be prepared for over 150 earthquakes measuring magnitude 5 or higher. Typhoons, volcanoes, and mudslides are also possible. Don't count on the Japanese government or Japanese people for natural disasters. After all, no one in their right mind would move here without knowing how frequent natural disasters are in Japan.
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EpsilonSmh
I’m a European currently staying in Tokyo and I’m flabergasted about two things;
1. The city is full, there’s countless people everywhere BUT there are no long lines in front of cashiers, no crowd chaos at basic institutions. In my country for example you have to prepare for a long line even if you just plan to buy milk. In Tokyo everything feels brutally organized and can accommodate millions of people. My city can’t do that with 400k.
2. It’s so dirt cheap compared to my country. Groceries in my country cost 3x as much.
Now I’m wondering how peaceful and cheap these less crowded places in Japan are.
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I’m a European currently staying in Tokyo and I’m flabergasted about two things;
1. The city is full, there’s countless people everywhere BUT there are no long lines in front of cashiers, no crowd chaos at basic institutions. In my country for example you have to prepare for a long line even if you just plan to buy milk. In Tokyo everything feels brutally organized and can accommodate millions of people. My city can’t do that with 400k.
2. It’s so dirt cheap compared to my country. Groceries in my country cost 3x as much.
Now I’m wondering how peaceful and cheap these less crowded places in Japan are.
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reallifelore
5: 20 It's ironic before 1604 the Kanto Plain where today's Tokyo lies was the most chaotic, warring, and flooded area until pre-Modern Shogunate found creative ways to solve all these life-endangering problems. Because if you only look at the map, you only see Nagoya's plain half of Tokyo's, so by instinct you would imagine it hosts half of Tokyo's population but nope, Osaka was the largest city in Japan between 1590 and 1750, while Kyoto the second.
Why Tokyo overcame all its weaknesses and threats, and even Kyoto overgrew 500 years ago, they deserve another one hour documentary. Love from Taipei, Dec. 2025.
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5: 20 It's ironic before 1604 the Kanto Plain where today's Tokyo lies was the most chaotic, warring, and flooded area until pre-Modern Shogunate found creative ways to solve all these life-endangering problems. Because if you only look at the map, you only see Nagoya's plain half of Tokyo's, so by instinct you would imagine it hosts half of Tokyo's population but nope, Osaka was the largest city in Japan between 1590 and 1750, while Kyoto the second.
Why Tokyo overcame all its weaknesses and threats, and even Kyoto overgrew 500 years ago, they deserve another one hour documentary. Love from Taipei, Dec. 2025.
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bankenvideos
I enjoyed the content of your video. Even though I have lived in Japan for 30 years I still learned a lot. But your pronunciation of Japanese place names was nothing less than atrocious. Which is unfortunate. As foreign languages go, Japanese is fairly easy for native English speakers to pronounce. Almost every sound in the Japanese language exists in English. I feel like you could have put in a little more effort on the pronunciation. Nonetheless, the information that you presented was quite good and my own experience in Japan can confirm it’s factuality.
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I enjoyed the content of your video. Even though I have lived in Japan for 30 years I still learned a lot. But your pronunciation of Japanese place names was nothing less than atrocious. Which is unfortunate. As foreign languages go, Japanese is fairly easy for native English speakers to pronounce. Almost every sound in the Japanese language exists in English. I feel like you could have put in a little more effort on the pronunciation. Nonetheless, the information that you presented was quite good and my own experience in Japan can confirm it’s factuality.
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samirmizyed2703
I'm sorry, but 43 million is more people than the state of California on a roughly similar area of land. That is not mostly empty. Heck, aside from California that is more than the population of the entire western US combined. Even the island of Hokkaido has 5 million people, which is genuinely impressive considering how far north it is.
I get that most of the obvious starkly different density distributions have already been covered (China, Indonesia, Egypt, etc) but this one is really reaching.
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I'm sorry, but 43 million is more people than the state of California on a roughly similar area of land. That is not mostly empty. Heck, aside from California that is more than the population of the entire western US combined. Even the island of Hokkaido has 5 million people, which is genuinely impressive considering how far north it is.
I get that most of the obvious starkly different density distributions have already been covered (China, Indonesia, Egypt, etc) but this one is really reaching.
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Greenforrest7342
Ironically, those major cities have experienced major damage again and again because of large earthquakes in the past. A similar disaster could strike at any time, yet I’m still surprised when I see people moving to Japan from overseas without checking any information beforehand.
I live in Miyagi Prefecture, which was hit hard by the March 11, 2011 earthquake, and I clearly remember how many foreigners hurried to the airport in a panic when it happened.
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Ironically, those major cities have experienced major damage again and again because of large earthquakes in the past. A similar disaster could strike at any time, yet I’m still surprised when I see people moving to Japan from overseas without checking any information beforehand.
I live in Miyagi Prefecture, which was hit hard by the March 11, 2011 earthquake, and I clearly remember how many foreigners hurried to the airport in a panic when it happened.
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misatzu
0: 26 that runs across the center and EAST of the country's south
You literally have no frkn idea what the words west and east mean, do ya This is now about the third time this year alone that specific error sticks out among the usual plethora of failures and mistakes defying common sense or revealing lack of basic elementary school knowledge. the evident comicality of blatant redundancies like linear line are only a bonus cherry on top lol
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0: 26 that runs across the center and EAST of the country's south
You literally have no frkn idea what the words west and east mean, do ya This is now about the third time this year alone that specific error sticks out among the usual plethora of failures and mistakes defying common sense or revealing lack of basic elementary school knowledge. the evident comicality of blatant redundancies like linear line are only a bonus cherry on top lol
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WCD_Media
Most of the population of the American Midwest is also concentrated in major cities, leaving the rest of the rural Midwestern States almost completely vacant. Also, here in the U. S. we have an abundance of vacant houses. Statistically speaking, there are enough vacant houses in the United States alone, that could theoretically give every homeless person in this country 3 houses apiece. Yet we keep being told that the Earth is over populated
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Most of the population of the American Midwest is also concentrated in major cities, leaving the rest of the rural Midwestern States almost completely vacant. Also, here in the U. S. we have an abundance of vacant houses. Statistically speaking, there are enough vacant houses in the United States alone, that could theoretically give every homeless person in this country 3 houses apiece. Yet we keep being told that the Earth is over populated
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vladimirnats3241
It's crazy that there so many dumb people saying comments about this video. This is called a geography lesson regarding Japan. Have you never gone to school Have you all flunked out of it For some people it's fun to learn facts about many things including Japan's type of geography and that is who this video is for.
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It's crazy that there so many dumb people saying comments about this video. This is called a geography lesson regarding Japan. Have you never gone to school Have you all flunked out of it For some people it's fun to learn facts about many things including Japan's type of geography and that is who this video is for.
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svariar
japan DOES NOT have 123 million people. i have extensively surveyed its population density covering every prefecture and the real population is less than half of its claimed also taking into account small family sizes lots of seniors and single people and empty homes and its only about 50ish million at most.
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japan DOES NOT have 123 million people. i have extensively surveyed its population density covering every prefecture and the real population is less than half of its claimed also taking into account small family sizes lots of seniors and single people and empty homes and its only about 50ish million at most.
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MrzPrincessPerfect
3: 25 - Just wanted to say the Amtrak train takes about the same amount of time to get from DC to NYC. I think the Acela train is BS and doesn’t really cut down the time as they claim but the app shows (as of 11/30/25) that it takes 3hr 24min on regular trains and 3hr 4min on new gen Acela
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3: 25 - Just wanted to say the Amtrak train takes about the same amount of time to get from DC to NYC. I think the Acela train is BS and doesn’t really cut down the time as they claim but the app shows (as of 11/30/25) that it takes 3hr 24min on regular trains and 3hr 4min on new gen Acela
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MR_FINANCE_Team
The wild part isn’t that Japan lives inside a line.
It’s that every modern country is doing the same thing
stacking millions of people inside a geography that was never built for modern scale.
Japan is just the clearest example
because the line makes the fragility visible.
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The wild part isn’t that Japan lives inside a line.
It’s that every modern country is doing the same thing
stacking millions of people inside a geography that was never built for modern scale.
Japan is just the clearest example
because the line makes the fragility visible.
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Salt_Master_Queue
So to sum up: Due to the main factors of climate (snowy N/NW/W areas, trade (Seto Inland Sea and the bays, geography (the huge amounts of land on the S/SE/E areas, and culinary production (farming, livestock and fishing, the Taiheiyo Belt is the best suited for human habitation.
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So to sum up: Due to the main factors of climate (snowy N/NW/W areas, trade (Seto Inland Sea and the bays, geography (the huge amounts of land on the S/SE/E areas, and culinary production (farming, livestock and fishing, the Taiheiyo Belt is the best suited for human habitation.
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reallifelore
doesn't this apply to almost all countries Sure some are more evenly spread like poland, but still geographical features makes it so cities are close in some part of a country where there are rivers, near the sea or major lake, arable land around it.
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doesn't this apply to almost all countries Sure some are more evenly spread like poland, but still geographical features makes it so cities are close in some part of a country where there are rivers, near the sea or major lake, arable land around it.
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nao-ch8fk
Central Japan Railway, which operates the Shinkansen bullet train crossing this Pacific Belt, is making a killing. In fact, it's even building its superconducting maglev train currently under construction using its own funds, not government money.
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Central Japan Railway, which operates the Shinkansen bullet train crossing this Pacific Belt, is making a killing. In fact, it's even building its superconducting maglev train currently under construction using its own funds, not government money.
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tylerpentecost9669
I love that this video isn't super long. Around 20-30 minutes is perfect. It's hard for me to find a solid block of time for really long videos, and I just don't get all the details when they're playing in the background!
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I love that this video isn't super long. Around 20-30 minutes is perfect. It's hard for me to find a solid block of time for really long videos, and I just don't get all the details when they're playing in the background!
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SteelSagas
This has to be the most misleading X% OF COUNTRY IS EMPTY title ever.
The empty part of Japan has the same population density as Germany. Or for that matter, China. It's only empty in that it's not a sardine can.
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This has to be the most misleading X% OF COUNTRY IS EMPTY title ever.
The empty part of Japan has the same population density as Germany. Or for that matter, China. It's only empty in that it's not a sardine can.
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geezushasrisen
Real Life Lore; the king of making a 25 minute video on a question that not only everyone knows the answer too, but could be answered in 30 seconds and constantly repeating the same point every 2 1/2 minutes.
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Real Life Lore; the king of making a 25 minute video on a question that not only everyone knows the answer too, but could be answered in 30 seconds and constantly repeating the same point every 2 1/2 minutes.
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100percentSNAFU
Why is so much of the landmass of [insert country name here] so sparsely populated Answer: Mountains, deserts, swamps, or tundra. There, just explained every single video of this type in a few sentences
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Why is so much of the landmass of [insert country name here] so sparsely populated Answer: Mountains, deserts, swamps, or tundra. There, just explained every single video of this type in a few sentences
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