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title Japan’s Geophysical Setting © Howard R. Spendelow Georgetown University draft as of 31 Aug 2014

Latitudinal comparison: Japan and the US

Pacific Ocean Currents

Intersection of Kuroshio and Oyashio Currents

temperature

rainfall

rainfall distribution

Tsukushi Plain

Kinai Plain

Kantō Plain

Nōbi and Kantō Plains

Tectonic plates

tectonic plates

Zone of March 2011 earthquake and tsunami

Aneyoshi 姉吉

Tsunami warning-marker in Aneyoshi

Marker for Meiji 29 (1896) and Shōwa 8 (1933) tsunamis

Human Family Tree

extent of Homo Erectus

Japan’s glaciation, c. 20,000 years ago

劇終 (the end)

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