They have very little arable land and population is 30 million before industrial revolution yet farming technology aren't even advance like nowaday
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Imports.
Generally modest diets. There's literally no fat Japanese except for Sumo wrestlers.
Those depictions of ugly bastards in Japanese porns were based from reality. The frick do you mean?
Shinto. They actually care. They actually give a frick. The only god is love.
And human potential is infinite.
No
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Good argument.
Fish
Lots and lots of fricking fish
fish
also rice. you don't need a ton of land to make a ton of rice.
also Japan is pretty fricking big
This. Rice is more caloric dense than wheat and there is a lot of fish. It also is bigger than it seems in a map. If the british isles popukation doesn't surprise you. Japan shouldn't either
No wheat is more caloric dense than rice. Rice is just dense filler food.
Trade. They import a lot of food. But before the 20th century they were pretty much self sufficient in food. They don't have a huge amount of farmland but the land that there is is very productive, and the climate is good for growing.
You can live on only rice and ONIONS beans. They are amino rich and almost perfect foods. It is said that paddy fields can produce calories 100 times more efficiently than wheat fields.
stupid word filter...
ONIONS beans meant S・O・Y beans
but what's wrong with onions?
That sounds good anon, but when will you tell us about these amazing ONIONS beans which are so nutritious you can live on just them.
I would like to propose we start a business selling these. We can call it ONIONS BOY. You can be the lead ONION boy.
Rice and fish
Actually preventing deforestation
Temperate rainforest are basically the ideal preindustrial region for population density
Most of present japan forest is man made
They had an asian form of chutzpah. Real go-getters.
they are polite and frugal
also no priestly caste burdening the population
haber process, modern science, it is only 3 times the medieval population which isn't much considering