After discovering 7,000 unknown islands after a new land survey, Japan practically doubled its island size. Japan’s New Island Count According to Kyodo News, the number of official islands in Japan is expected to double from 6,852 to 14,125 after the government conducted the first survey in 1987 of its territorial waters.  Japan used advanced mapping technology in the first geographical study of the archipelago … Continue reading Japan Discovers New Islands, Count Doubles After Survey