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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".
No love for New Zealand huh?
What's a New Zealand?
Checked my map, it's not there
It's an updated version of a Dutch province
New Zealand? What's that?
its so east that it loops back around to being west
It’s*
Syntax mistake—not grammar
[Pedentry intensitfies]
Appropriate user name, though.
Syntax would be more like sentence structure and order. Contractions are indeed grammar.
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.
Developed*
Depends on your meridian.
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