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鏡の日本列島 1：「真新しい日本列島」の使い方を考えるために

伊藤孝【編集同人】

Mirrored Japan 01: Towards the Development of “Mirrored Japan”Takashi Ito【HBH Editor】

镜中的日本列岛-1：思考“全新的日本列岛”之使用方法

Say that we found a group of islands identical to the archipelago of Japan, but nobody was living on them. Let’s call the archipelago “Mirrored Japan.” How would we develop these islands without the consideration of history, traditions, customs or vested interests? Today, thanks to surveys started tens of thousands of years ago, we all know what kind of landscape spreads beyond the mountains, and what kind of historical transition it has undergone. Rather than ignoring the existing environment, we would like to use our knowledge of the archipelago and take advantage of its topography, geology, climate, and ecology.
In order to strengthen our knowledge of the natural characteristics of the Japanese archipelago, I would like to refer to the website “GeomapNavi”. Many years of earth science research on the Japanese archipelago is now publicly accessible through this website. With little more than a high school-level understanding of earth science, we can use this data to think about the development of Mirrored Japan.
We propose the book Super Chronology of the Whole History of Earth (