:jesus-christ: .

Tag places you've been to.

I got Sacramento, Tuscan, and New York. That's Kochi, Kuwana, and Tokyo.

The important thing to understand here is the sheer scale of destruction suffered by the peoples of Asia at the blood soaked hands of America.

    • Alaskaball [comrade/them]A
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      2 years ago

      It's a big island spread through different climate zones that allow a wider diverse portfolio of food sources. Plus terrace farming helps a lot.

      • GVAGUY3 [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        They also stole a lot of food from Korea at the time as well. I think they now import a lot of their food.

        • Alaskaball [comrade/them]A
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          2 years ago

          Oh I was thinking of their pre-imperial period. Yeah their opening up and westernization led to an increase in demand for food and resources and an increase of imports for them and later outright colonization for them as well.

          • ssjmarx [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            Something worth bearing in mind is that Japan is nevertheless fully capable of sustaining its own population. In the 60s Japan got >90% of its calories from domestic production (and was a net exporter of rice) at about 95M population, today they get <40% of their calories domestically for about 125M population - so even though their population is higher, their production is less than half of what it was with 1960s technology, and a commitment to large-scale fully modernized agriculture across Japan could potentially turn it into a net exporter.

            • Alaskaball [comrade/them]A
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              2 years ago

              Yeah, the main roadblock in Japanese, (and Korean in a few years down the road) is that a lot of their agricultural production is coming from an increasingly elderly population that has had very little younger people joining to make it sustainable as the generations age out. This also ties into the heavy urbanization of their populations and the steady abandonment of the rural life in conjunction with declining birthrates and the average parenthood age growing due to a lack of financial stability which in turn is tied to the fact that Japan's economy has been stagnating as the effects of its switch from and industrial production economy to a consumption economy has finally started to be realized.