Japan is REVERSING 1,000 Years of Geography — The East–West Divide Is About to Change Forever

Описание: For over a thousand years, Japan has had a front and a back. The Pacific coast thrives with mega-cities like Tokyo and Osaka, generating seventy percent of the nation's entire economy. Meanwhile, the Sea of Japan side — called Ura Nihon, or "Shadow Japan" — is quietly dying. Forty million people live in regions the government treated as expendable. Entire towns are becoming ghost villages. Some prefectures will lose thirty percent of their populations by 2040.
Then Japan announced something so ambitious it seemed impossible: a two hundred billion dollar plan to flip the entire country's economic gravity westward.
The West Japan Corridor Initiative is a thirty-year master plan to build a second spine for the nation — twelve hundred kilometers of new high-speed rail, three massive gateway ports rivaling Tokyo Bay, eight highway tunnels cutting through the seismically active Japanese Alps, and the most audacious element of all: a two hundred thirty kilometer undersea tunnel to South Korea that would be three times longer than the Channel Tunnel and could theoretically connect London to Tokyo by train.
Critics point to Japan's crushing national debt, its shrinking construction workforce, and decades of failed regional projects. Supporters say without radical action, half of Japan becomes uninhabitable ghost territory within thirty years.
But something remarkable is already happening. Construction has begun. The vision is taking shape. And if Japan succeeds, it won't just save itself — it will redraw the map of Asia and prove that advanced democracies can still dream this big.
This is the story of a nation betting its future on engineering, geography, and the boldest infrastructure gamble in modern history.
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