Sometimes I feel like I have a bit of a chip on my shoulder about this when in Silicon Valley because of the question "Isn't Japan sort of an economic basket case?" and, well, it's a pretty materially sized basket.
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The parts of Japan that aren't in Tokyo, by comparison, amount to a United Kingdom and enough change for a Poland or so.
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Isn’t that true of most major metros though?
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Ask a simple question, get a simple answer: no, it is not, unless you can count all major metros on your fingers. e.g. Berlin is an Iraq, not a Canada.
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And note, this most important city has housing that people who live there can actually afford. Because zoning in Japan is federal - NIMBYism does not exist in Tokyo, you don't get to say what your neighbors build.
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Greater Tokyo Area also has more people than the whole country of Canada.
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If you include Yokohama in “greater Tokyo” (eminently reasonable, IMHO), that’s 30+M people, or roughly the population of California or Canada. I believe California usually comes in somewhere between 5th - 10th. But neither have the density of greater Tokyo...
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Something I think of often: do the economic gains from centralization (would love to see a study on quantification of boost to GDP from some meaningful measures of centralization) outweigh the risks (natural disasters, disease outbreaks, etc.)? Would think the answer is “greatly”
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