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© 2018 AFPOne of our islands is missing: Japan 'loses' a bit of land
By Toru Yamanaka TOKYO©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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Yubaru
Or it could have disappeared because of polar ice cap melt and rising levels in the ocean. Japan has literally gone to untold lengths to protect even specks of land in the Pacific, but considering it's location it probably wasnt worth the cost.
Azzprin
What caused it dissapear ? Weathering, rising sea level or someother reason not yet found.
At lest they have not gone to the lengths of building an airstrip on it.
Goodlucktoyou
Many countries are going to disappear. And coral reefs.
Chip Star
Correct. However, that in know way leads to the inference that Honshu will disappear. Conservatives have the damnedest time being accurate. Oh my . . . Har!
Chip Star
*no
Kenji Fujimori
Just build fake islands like in Dubai
Seawolf
For this very reason, other "islands", or as saided above more accurately, outcrops, that are more important to Japan are surrounded by a concrete frame. But I don't think Japan is the only country doing this, so it's still fair game to me.
Wolfpack
Hundreds of millions of years from now, Honshu will not exist. Nor will any landmass as it exists today - plate tectonics will see to that. Meanwhile ocean levels have increased by a mere few inches a year - just as they have since the end of the little ice age.