Night photograph of the earth seen from the satellite orbit Various

When you do this, Japan is bright enough to clearly see the outline of the whole country land, as usual. There are many dark parts such as Africa, but will it become bright again in the future, or is it still dark?

Other images are from the following site. There are also images of Japan in 1994.
It surely looks like this from the universe.

World_lights_night.jpg (JPEG image 1024 x 1024 pixels)

Commentary on what kind of power each bright part of the night scenery is made of.

Earth-at-night016.gif (GIF image 2400 x 1300 pixels)

Other image images from various satellites.

Satellite Images of Earth at Night - darksky.org

So this is Japan on November 1, 1994.

Japan.gif (GIF image 626 x 463 pixels)