Cartograms
The Atlas of Health Inequalities in Japan: A full colour atlas using prismic cartogram of mortality from various causes of deaths in Japan (published by Springer, 2019). The idea of prismic cartogram of mortality ratio highlighting the absolute volume of excess deaths as well as relative risks of deaths was originally introduced in a featured graphic article in Environment and Planning A, 2010.
The Shape of Japan by Names: Population Cartogram of Japan Using Word Clouds of Surnames. Related graphics images are included in ESRI MAP BOOK Volume 30, ESRI Press, 2015, pp. 86-87. An associated article about Japanese surname regions was published in Papers in Regional Science, Volume 93, 2014.
