‘Sea women’ and sacred waterfalls: Exploring one of Japan’s most stunning secrets
Surrounded by the vast Pacific Ocean, Japan’s Ise-Shima region is a place where ancient traditions, spirituality and the ...
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Thoughtful Man Provides New Shells to Hermit Crabs That Were Using Plastic Trash As Their Homes
Shawn Miller of Make The Switch 4 Nature has made it his life’s mission to provide empty shells for the hermit crabs on the ...
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From shells to surfboards: How wildlife has adapted to plastic
A hermit crab trundles across a beach in Japan's Okinawa, carrying its home on its back: not a shell, but a disintegrating plastic yellow measuring spoon. The crab is far from alone. Plastic waste has ...
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U.S. seeking explosives in Japan for Ukraine artillery shells--sources
The United States is seeking to secure supplies of TNT in Japan for 155-mm artillery shells, as Washington rushes weapons and ammunition to Ukraine for a counteroffensive against Russian forces ...
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Japanese troops defuse WWII-era American shell at Okinawa construction site
NAHA, Okinawa — Japanese troops removed and defused an American shell believed to be from World War II on Tuesday at a construction site in Okinawa’s capital city. Ten members of the Japan Gro ...
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Shell bead from Okinawa Japan’s oldest painted ornament
NAHA--Researchers in Okinawa Prefecture have confirmed the discovery of the oldest artificially colored ornament ever found in Japan ... on Oct. 21 about a shell bead unearthed in a dig at ...