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Japan is near the bottom of my list for western countries

Japan is an Eastern country. In fact, it’s the farthest East county possible.

I think the words you were looking for were “first world countries”.

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its so east that it loops back around to being west

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It’s*

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Japan is an Eastern country. In fact, it’s the farthest East county possible.

No love for New Zealand huh?

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What’s a New Zealand?

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Checked my map, it’s not there

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It’s an updated version of a Dutch province

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New Zealand? What’s that?

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Nobody takes that to be literally about geography anymore. Japan might be far away from Texas, but it’s politically a lot closer than Russia just a ferry ride away.

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Developed*

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Depends on your meridian.

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Po-tay-to po-tah-to doesn’t really matter to distinguish between them when what I meant was clear, although I probably would’ve said first world if I was nitpicking my post before sending

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