>>This discussion got me to thinking of everyplace cable goes and who has a connection to it. I was surprised to learn that New Zealand pretty much has a direct line to California :)
http://www.cablemap.info/Yup. Traffic can go via Australia and Asia but we assume not.
>>Why does Japan have two?
Industrialized nation, high population?
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
