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I was pretty surprised when I found out the total Japanese island count. Have any of you been to more than two?

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[–] Asetru@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

15 would be about 1‰ ... It's just a lot of islands :-/

[–] bitofarambler@crazypeople.online 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

1% seems a lot more doable than 14,000 more. And the locals told me a couple weeks ago about bunny island and deer island, so I'll start small and work my way up.

[–] Asetru@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Sure... It's just that 15 isn't one percent, it's one permille. See the sign after my "1"? There's an "0" more in the subscript ;). You'd have to visit 142 islands to reach a full percent.

oh, right. I'm good with a permille too, any roundish representative portion works for me.