Turkey is a bi-continental republic: while the majority of the country is geographically in Asia, Eastern Thrace is part of Europe, and many Turks identify as European
Korea is connected to China by land in the northeast, with the Korean Peninsula in the northwest, divided from Japan to the northeast, and connected to Taiwan by the South China Sea.
Japan is often difficult to understand for those educated in the west. It can seem full of contradictions. Many Japanese corporations dominate their industries, yet if you read the financial...