For the first time, an official map from the late Edo Period (1603-1867 ... Funasugi was commissioned by the Japan Institute of International Affairs, a Tokyo-based think tank researching ...

Tokyo’s Chiyoda Ward has reproduced a rare map from 1947 that shows how the postwar U.S. occupation of Japan had dominated and sprawled across the places locals walk past every day. It proved to ...

A Pokemon fan made a pixel-art map of Japan with game regions accurately placed. Pokemon regions like Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, and Sinnoh are based on real Japanese locations. The Pokemon Ranger ...