Every year on the first of September, at a cove in a small town called Taiji on the southeast coast of Japan's Honshu Island, a new fishing season begins: the dolphin season.

每年九月第一天，日本本州南部海岸一个叫做“太地”的小镇海湾，新一轮的捕鱼季开始：捕杀海豚的季节。

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The quake was 4.8 miles (7.7 km) deep and struck in the sea near the east coast of Honshu, the largest Island in Japan, the USGS said.

这次地震的深度是4.8英里(7.7公里)，发生在日本最大岛屿本州东海岸附近的海里，美国地质调查局说。

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The 9.0 earthquake that struck the northeast coast of Honshu this past March is not likely to have such an impact on Japan's history.

在日本历史上袭击了本州岛东北海岸的九级地震在今年的三月里不太可能会有这么大的冲击性。

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On Wednesday, a 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Honshu, the country's meteorological agency said.

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Roughly 30 miles off the coast of Honshu Island in the Pacific Ocean, the Nankai Trough holds an estimated 40 trillion cubic feet of gas hydrates and has received the largest investment and advanced field research of any project in the world.

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They have since been pushed into the Sea of Japan by a branch of the warm Kuroshio current that is running much closer to land than usual, and have spread up Japan's west coast and even through the Tsugaru strait between Japan's main island, Honshu, and northern Hokkaido into the Pacific Ocean.

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