The Japanese Are Great At Inventing Complex

The Japanese Drive On The Left Side Of The Road. Most Streets Literally Do Not Have Names.

In 1491 The Inka Ruled The Greatest Empire On Earth. Bigger Than Ming Dynasty China, Bigger Than Ivan The Great’s Expanding Russia, Bigger Than Songhay In The Sahel Or Powerful Great Zimbabwe In The West Africa Tablelands, Bigger Than The Cresting Ottoman Empire, Bigger Than The Triple Alliance (as The Aztec Empire Is More Precisely Known), Bigger By Far Than Any European State, The Inka Dominion Extended Over A Staggering Thirty-two Degrees Of Latitude—as If A Single Power Held Sway From St. Petersburg To Cairo.

A World With A Sudden Limit On Air Travel Would Be Tremendously Different From The One We Live In Now.

The Japanese Are Great At Inventing Complex Systems Of Rules, And Not So Great At Explaining Those Rules To Foreign Visitors.

Japanese Maps Tend To Come In Two Varieties: Small, Schematic, And Bewildering; And Large, Fantastically Detailed, And Bewildering.