Someone is going to eventually popularize an addressing system which makes people enter pointers and have a computer translate that into a physical address. My bet is Amazon, but it really *should* be one of the logistics startups.
No, addresses in Japan work quite functionally. I can trivially write my address in a way you can understand. You can trivially mail me a package; it will arrive. There's a slight difference in fundamental assumptions on what deserves a name.
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The tweet-length version is that, in the United States, streets have names and between-street spaces are anonymous details. In Japan, blocks have names and between-block spaces are anonymous details.
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But regardless of how you choose to describe physical locations, there should be a way to tell a computer "Send patio11 this package" and have the computer say "Gotcha, I know what building in Nakameguro to point the driver at" rather than have you have to specify which.
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