Well my opinion on the Japan west matter. Well, we created the atlas, we set its bounds on where the middle is and where the west and where the east is. But lets say Alaska for example you can say that Japan is on its West, as the distance is shorter than its distance to the east. Everything is both east and west anywhere on the globe, except the poles (as you can only go south on the north pole and north on the south pole).If you look at the atlas upside down? -_-