... islands1.1
(NE to SW: Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu)
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... transportation.1.2
Which is doubly true now that so many of Japan's rivers have been dammed and reduced to little more than creeks.
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... power.1.3
The numbers are: 14,500 km for China and 29,751 km for Japan.
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... proto-Caucasian2.1
I have to look into this a bit more, but in this case, `proto-Caucasian' seems to mean `caucasian, but we have no idea what a bunch of white people are doing in the very Far East thousands of years before the birth of Christ.' Or something like that. Bit like finding a group of Africans living in Iceland before any Europeans got there.
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... found.2.2
I have no idea where Yayoi, Japan is, but there is a Yayoi district in Tokyo that might be the place.
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... Japan.2.3
Compared to the rest of Eurasia, this is very late. Iron was already in use in Mesopotamia in the second millennium BC and bronze about a thousand years earlier than that.
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... Oahu2.4
The Oahu part is a joke. No one actually thinks the Chinese texts were talking about Hawaii.
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