Today I learned that Japan recently updated its count of islands within its territory. A 2023 digital mapping initiative that featured advances in technology and stricter criteria for defining an island brought the estimate up from 6,852 to … 14,125 islands! www.islandsaround.com/japan-islands/
Of course with climate change aka global warming that number will decline.
This is a joy to see.
多くの = many
Whelp, I have been to 5 of them! Guess I have some work to do🤣
Hey if we can unmake Pluto as a planet…. what’s an island or an archipelago between nations now please? And with the Donald coming in, this is gonna get hysterical, 😭 yea…..that kind as in Not freakin funny! Just my advanced Ouch freakin ouch! I’m outta tears here already!
14,000+ islands and China is eyeing every one of them.
Japans updated island count is about sovereignty claims specifically related to Senkaku Islands which are Japanese but claimed by China. China has a territory dispute with every neighbour in its vicinity because its govt. has historical rage issues.
doubt it's just rage though, just like Russia, there's a lot of greed & ego fueling expansionism
Very true. It’s never just one facet. If interested in this topic I suggest you read about China’s century of shame. It’s enlightening. Roughly 1850-1950 give or take a decade. Be well my friend .