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Japan
Capital Tokyo
35.68°N 139.65°E
Japan is an island arc on a subduction hinge: Pacific and Philippine Sea plates dive under Eurasia.
Sticky magma stacks stratovolcanoes. Earthquakes and tsunami are the same plate conversation.
Tokyo sits on a Kanto plain of sediment, not on a mid-ocean ridge. This is not Iceland and not Hawaii.
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