Here’s a Map That Shows You What the Japanese Really Think of Europe · Global Voices
Nevin Thompson

Nick Kapur's map of Japanese stereotypes based on Google autocomplete suggestions.
Nick Kapur, a US-based professional historian specializing in Japan, has made a map of Japanese stereotypes of European countries, based on Japanese Google autocomplete suggestions.
Not every country in Europe was represented by Japanese-language Google autocomplete:
@XENON312O @MegaMogwai I searched for Slovenia but unfortunately the autocomplete didn't return any non-tourism related results in Japanese.
— Nick Kapur (@nick_kapur) April 25, 2016
Google autocomplete also delivered some mysterious results that Kapur then incorporated into his map:
@Paninodesu Yeah, I was confused by that myself, actually, but after digging around, it seems to be some sort of “polandball” reference.
— Nick Kapur (@nick_kapur) April 25, 2016
Kapur's map is similar to another map from 2015 that used Baidu, China's dominant search engine, to finish half-written questions about different provinces in China.
A map of China, by stereotype: http://t.co/isRo4hkPTB pic.twitter.com/vhuADJsWGm
— FP's Tea Leaf Nation (@TeaLeafNation) March 4, 2014