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Bonin Islands

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Hsiao said that the 360-degree view from the Ogasawara Viewing Platform enables visitors to watch both sunrises from the east and sunsets in the west.
This year, the list had many great locations, such as Japan's Ogasawara Islands, France's Palace of Versailles, the United States' Yellowstone National Park, China's Danxia and Australia's Fraser Island.
At their villa on the Ogasawara Island archipelago, they meet a young woman named Kokoa.
Takuya Kakuki, MD; Kenichi Takano, MD; Makoto Kurose, MD; Atsushi Kondo, MD; Tsuyoshi Okuni, MD; Noriko Ogasawara, MD; Tetsuo Himi, MD
The leader of Doha Oyaji Band, Natsuo Ogasawara, who is blessed with a multi-faceted personality, is a financial professional on one side and a multi talented musician on the other.
The specific topics include the tectonic setting of life in the archipelago, the traditional use of resources and management of littoral environments at Lake Biwa, Sakuma Dam and the socio-natural dimensions of "comprehensive development" planning in post-1945 Japan, struggling with complex natures in the Ogasawara Island, a reconstruction of meteorological trends from documentary evidence, and the climate dilemmas of built environments.
In a statement today, the agency said the epicentre of the quake was located west of the Ogasawara island chain in the Pacific Ocean about 1,000 kilometres south of Tokyo.
The Earthquake, centred off the Ogasawara islands south of Tokyo, was felt widely in Japan but occurred at a depth of 590 km.
The focus of the tremor was 590 km underground near the Ogasawara Island off Tokyo, according to the agency.
The offshore earthquake struck off the Ogasawara islands at 8:24 p.
Following the quake, which hit a very shallow point of the seabed, the agency issued a tsunami warning of up to 1m for the Izu island chain, south of Tokyo, and the Ogasawara archipelago, far south in the Pacific Ocean.
answers NAME THE YEAR: 1989 | WHO WHAT WHERE WHEN: Stefano Baldini; Ogasawara Islands; Death Valley, California; 1971.