{"id":52666,"date":"2023-02-16T13:37:37","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T04:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/16\/japan-sees-its-number-of-islands-double-after-recount"},"modified":"2023-02-16T13:37:37","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T04:37:37","slug":"japan-sees-its-number-of-islands-double-after-recount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52666","title":{"rendered":"Japan sees its number of islands double after recount"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Digital mapping leads to around 7,000 new islands being discovered though it\u2019s unlikely to expand Japan\u2019s territory, media reports say<\/p>\n<p>It can\u2019t be easy keeping count of the number of islands scattered around an area of more than 370,000 square kilometres, in a country that is regularly subjected to volcanic activity and extreme weather.<\/p>\n<p>While Japan has seen the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/17\/undersea-volcanic-eruption-creates-new-japanese-island\">formation of new islands<\/a>, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/nov\/02\/japanese-island-disappears-esanbe-hanakita-kojima\">quiet disappearance<\/a> of another, geographers have said official statistics showing it is made up of around 6,000 islands are way off the mark.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/16\/japan-sees-its-number-of-islands-double-after-recount\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digital mapping leads to around 7,000 new islands being discovered though it\u2019s unlikely to expand Japan\u2019s territory, media reports sayIt can\u2019t be easy keeping count of the number of islands scattered around an area of more than 370,000 square kilometre&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52667,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52666\/revisions\/52667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}