Since October 1st of last year, Japan has seen an increase in its available land. Numerous areas, including Tokyo, Ibaraki and Nagasaki, are growing larger, with Japan’s total land area now reaching 377,943.57 square kilometers (about 10% smaller than California).
The cities most heavily influenced by this were Tokyo and Nagasaki, with an increase of 13.58 and 8.93 square kilometers respectively.
According to the Geographical Survey Institute, the yearly increase in land area is estimated to be around one 25,000th of the total area of the nation.
And the cause of this not so puzzling increase? Polders, dikes, land reclamation, all are helping push back the sea in areas of critically high land value, which happens to be most cities considering Japan is 90% mountainous and thus unsuitable for much building.
This should certainly be good news for those living in the more cramped areas of the country.
Via ZakZak.
Russians should really consider giving away the volcanic Kamchatka to them – atleast Japanese would use it well :3
Why hasn’t anyone commented on the realistic picture lol
I was thinking about it XD
Wonder if they’ll start building underground next. A reversed Tokyo called Tokyo-2 or something like that.
I say screw 2 and go straight to 3.
they would have more space if only they can get the american base out of okinawa
I had no idea this was happening. But the reason is logical.
Soo, Japan is the new Netherlands then?
I’m a Dutchfag and I really question the wisdom of the Japanese. The sea levels are rising constantly and we’ve found ourselves in the unpleasant situations that we’ve got to pour a lot of money in heightening and widening the dikes and strengthening the keringen just to keep what we’ve got. People are seriously wondering whether it’s even possible to continue like this, and creating new polders is surely folly, at least until sea levels start falling or we develop some magical new construction material to build better dikes with.