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How Japan’s Geography Determined Its History (opens the original)
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Japan is extraordinary.Why did it develop samurai?Why did it close down to the world for 250 years?Why did it forget how to make guns?How did it go from feudal to industrial in a matter of decades?How did it conquer half of East Asia?Why did it later lose it?You can explain all of these, and more, just by looking at its geography. We’ve started to do this in the last two articles on Japan’s population and its geopolitical priorities.
Japan’s 4 Priorities (opens the original)
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If you know how to look at this map, you can deduce a lot of Japan’s history, why it has the borders it has today, where they are contested, and why it went through the wars it did.<img alt="" class="sizing-large" height="727.734375" src="https://substackcdn.c
How Earthquakes Made the Biggest City in the World (opens the original)
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Last week's premium article: What’s the Value of a Life?With 37M people, Tokyo is the most populated city on Earth.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1
Why Is Japan So Populated Despite So Little Land? (opens the original)
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This week's premium article: What’s the Value of a Life?I just enabled translations in a dozen other languages! If you read this article on web or the Substack app, you should see an option to change the language of this article. Use this and tell me what you think!Japan is so weird:Not too long ago, it was one of the most populated countries on Earth. Why?That’s despite being quite small and mountainous. How come?Why is its capital one of the large
What’s the Value of a Life? (opens the original)
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Is Jeff Bezos worth more than you and me?If everybody is worth the same, why do we say in a case of emergency, “Women and children should be saved first”? Should we spend more on the education of children with learning difficulties, or on the brightest? How much should we tax Elon Musk?Should we continue spending more on elderly healthcare than across t… Read more
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