Tokyo proclaims Pacific Ocean mission world’s first attempt to tap rare earths at such a depth.
In 2013, blind Japanese sailor Mitsuhiro Iwamoto’s first trans-Pacific sailing attempt failed when a whale struck his boat.
A new study claims that an 80-100-foot-wide layer of clay exacerbated the 2011 earthquake.
Japan has become the first country to successfully extract rare earth-rich sediment from 6,000 metres beneath the Pacific ...
Japan Extracts Rare Earth Sediments from the Depths of the Sea In a groundbreaking technological achievement, Japan has ...
A Solo, Non-Stop Crossing of the Pacific Ocean -FUJISAWA, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mitsuhiro Iwamoto, a Japanese sailor based in San Diego, who is taking on the world’s first solo, non-stop ...
Japan’s METI and JAMSTEC have successfully retrieved rare earth-rich sediment from 6,000 metres below the Pacific Ocean. This world-first mission could strengthen Japan’s technology and energy ...
Fossil crustaceans preserved in Japanese sediments reveal how ancient ocean currents linked Asia and North America during the ...
He masters distance—potentially the most imposing blockade for such a mammoth undertaking—with aplomb and delivers the history of it all. The locomotive behind this endeavor is his characteristic, ...