Here's a Map That Shows You What the Japanese Really Think of Europe

• Posted 27 April 2016 14:35 GMT
• Written by Nevin Thompson
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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:

Google autocomplete also delivered some mysterious results that Kapur then incorporated into his map:

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.