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Tsunami: How A Japanese Word Came To Describe Nature’s Most Destructive Waves

The word tsunami is now universally used to describe massive, devastating sea waves, but its origin lies deep within Japanese culture and language. Over time, global catastrophes forced the world to ...
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Dylan Graves and Blair Conklin tackle Japan’s mutant wall-rebound wave (video)

Blair Conklin and Dylan Graves find a strange wedge wave, becoming the first people to ever surf it in Japan.
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Japanese turbines catch the waves to harvest energy and protect the coastline

Star-shaped concrete structures called tetrapods are often used to protect coastlines from eroding away under the constant barrage of waves. Now a project from the Okinawa Institute of Science and ...
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New Japanese turbines harvest wave energy and protect coastlines from erosion

Surf’s up! Researchers from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) in Japan are working to create special turbines that harvest the renewable energy of waves while simultaneously ...
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Japanese surfer nears 90 and talks of catching waves at 100

FUJISAWA – A busy company owner for the early part of his life, Seiichi Sano began anew at 80 by climbing Mt. Fuji. Apparently not challenged enough by Japan's highest peak, he almost immediately took ...
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Japanese Cranes Over Waves

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