If the world was a flat disk-shaped platter with the continents sitting on top, there would have to be some point on the map that would qualify as the western-most land mass, eastern-most land mass, northern-most, and southern-most. if we look at a flat map of the earth as use that as a reference, we can see that Japan is one of the eastern-most land masses. Taking this into consideration, how can it be possible that someone in California (USA) for example, would fly WEST to get there?