Tokyo Wavepool: Oh. My. God.

The Chinese have an evocative idiom to describe crowded conditions: 人山人海. Rough translation: “People numerous enough to cover the mountains and seas.” I’ve seen situations in which this phrase came dangerously close to being realized—Tian’anmen Square the night Beijing won the 2008 Olympics bid, for example—but never in my wildest imaginings…(from Michael Keferl via Weird Asia News):

[Interesting thing to note here: Japan's population has been shrinking since 2005, a trend that has the country more worried than relieved.]

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Josh Chin is a freelance journalist based in Beijing. He also once worked as a sous chef in a French restaurant in San Francisco. Neither job has been good for his health.

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