Urbanisation of the Japanese archaeopalego

Some of their 'urban' parts are really strange too, it's like there is minimal separation between farming areas and towns with everything just sprawled into eachother.

>be the size of a subcontinent
>has a higher population density than Japan
holy shit, just stop breeding

The land on Japan is flooded?

Tell that to Uttar Pradeshi and Bihari dogs

Japanese cities are like American cities in that sense.
市 - city
町 - town
村 - village
Cities incorporate nearby cities, towns, or villages so they end up with rural areas inbetween. Sometimes they get exclaves too.

They follow farm lands
Kanto is the biggest one

You can tell where the Shinkansen lines are

Mainly because of the location of a plain. Since 73% of the land consists of mountains, there aren't many choices

The blue within borders is just non urbanized land mass. I don’t know why it’s blue.

Interesting, though I don't necessarily mean in an administrative sense. Just looking at satellite maps you can see towns, villages and farms all crammed right next to each other.

Another interesting thing is just how much of their land area is untouched forest. Kinda jealous.

So what happens when the island is just one big city?

I read somewhere that most of their forests are actually replanted but they're all one indigenous species and little biodiversity.
That's why photos of Jap forests look eerily uniform.

Yes I love japan but I’m not a weeb and don’t watch anime other than standard Japanese shows they aired on Indian TV because American shows are “too inappropriate”. I study archaeology and most work on Ancient Indian history but recently I’ve been looking into Japanese history and it interests me. That’s why I’m making a topographic map of Japan so I can map the empires and stuff which is my favourite past time

It won't since the Japanese population is declining instead of increasing. They can't since 75% of Japan is mountain.

because large plains suitable for building big cities lie on the pacific coast

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I see, makes sense. Thanks.

It’s an incomplete map, the blue should be the respective forest/mountain areas which I haven’t mapped yet

Pacific ocean side
>summer: humid (rains)
>winter: dry

Sea of Japan side
>summer: dry
>winter: humid (snows)

That's disappointing.

>New Zealand
why yes, I am jealous of your fifty-mile wide forests, how did you know

We have cities in America with declining population yet somehow urban sprawl is growing.

Wish I could just fucking visit this place already.

That is right. Japanese cedar accounts for an overwhelming proportion of forest coverage in Japan. The Japanese traditionally adored this tree so they started planting loads of it after ww2 - but only it. The problem here is although it physically looks very lush, it blocks sunlight on the ground so wildlife cannot grow there. Few birds and animals even though you got plenty of trees.

they modernised themselves to prevent colonisation. a fiercely nationalistic population also helped.

rude
also thankyou

Another annoying issue is this tree emits pollens like crazy lol. In South Korea's case, the majority of trees planted are pines but unlike Japan we did give a diversity of species to forests.

> The Japanese traditionally adored this tree so they started planting loads of it after ww2 - but only it.
There's no such cultural background. That's just because Japanese cedar grows fast and it was suitable, at least the gov thought, for forthcoming huge demands of the construction at the time of rapid economic growth of Japan. But import lumber was much cheaper than the Japanese tree at that time, and still, so it remains not cutting down.