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In Japan, the national government issues vehicle registration plates for motor vehicles through the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Land Transportation Offices nationwide. However, the local municipality rather than the national government registers certain vehicles with small engine displacements.
The subducting plates, being deeper than the Eurasian plate, pulled Japan eastward in the process of back-arc extension, opening the Sea of Japan around 15 million years ago. [1] The Strait of Tartary and the Korea Strait opened much later. Japan is situated in a volcanic zone on the Pacific Ring of Fire. Frequent low intensity earth tremors ...
Boso triple junction . The Boso triple junction (also known as off-Boso triple junction) is a triple junction off the coast of Japan; it is one of two known examples of a trench-trench-trench triple junction on the Earth (the other being the Banda Sea triple junction).
Two "chōmei-name plates (町名板)" are with rōmaji for people unable to read the Japanese. (L) - A plate in standard style in larger cities. (L) - A plate in standard style in larger cities. The letters on the plate indicates from the top Chuō Ward ( 中央区 , Chuō-ku ) and block 7, 5th chōme ( 銀座五丁目7 , Ginza go-chōme nana) .
Japan is located in the northwestern Ring of Fire on multiple tectonic plates. [16] East of the Japanese archipelago are three oceanic trenches. The Japan Trench is created as the oceanic Pacific Plate subducts beneath the continental Okhotsk Plate. [17] The continuous subduction process causes frequent earthquakes, tsunamis, and ...
The rapid plate motion of the Izanagi plate caused northwest Japan and the outer zone of southwest Japan to drift northward. High-pressure metamorphic rocks were formed at the eastern margin of the drifting land mass in the Sanbagawa metamorphic belt , while low-pressure metamorphic rocks were formed at its western margin in the Abukuma ...
Japan's principal fault system is the zone where the Amurian microplate, the Eastern edge of the Eurasian plate, meets the Okhotsk microplate, sometimes considered the Western edge of the North American plate. [2] It is controversial whether the northern Honshu, Okhotsk and North American plate constitute separate blocks or plates.
Wakaba mark Shoshinsha mark displayed on a Suzuki Alto Lapin. The shoshinsha mark (初心者マーク) or Wakaba mark (若葉マーク), officially Beginner Drivers' Sign (初心運転者標識, Shoshin Untensha Hyōshiki), is a green and yellow V-shaped symbol that beginner drivers in Japan must display at the designated places at the front and the rear of their cars for one year after they ...