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3 hours ago · However, New Year's Day 2024 changed all that. A magnitude 7.6 earthquake struck the Noto Peninsula in the northern part of the Ishikawa Prefecture. On a peninsula known for its rugged coastlines ...
17 hours ago · Japanese. The island of Hokkaidō is located in the north of Japan, near Russia ( Sakhalin Oblast ). It has coastlines on the Sea of Japan (to the west of the island), the Sea of Okhotsk (to the north), and the Pacific Ocean (to the east). The center of the island is mountainous, with volcanic plateaux.
17 hours ago · For the first time in history, world timekeepers may have to consider subtracting a second from our clocks in a few years because the planet is rotating a tad faster than it used to. Clocks may have to skip a second — called a “negative leap second” — around 2029, a study in the journal Nature said Wednesday.
17 hours ago · Website. u-tokyo.ac.jp. The University of Tokyo ( UTokyo, 東京大学, Tōkyō daigaku) is a public research university in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Founded in 1877 as the nation's first modern university by the merger of several pre-westernisation era institutions, its direct predecessors include Tenmongata (founded in 1684) and the Shoheizaka ...
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