Alert in Japan: an island disappears without anyone noticing

JAPAN

There are days an extinct island in Japan without anyone noticing.

After these facts, Japanese authorities are already doing research of the disappeared islet in the north of the country and whose the location allowed the extension of Japanese territorial waters.

The international media are those who have made the disappearance of the island.

The island, called Esanbe Hanakita Kojima, is located about 500 meters from the island of Hokkaido, north of Japan, in the Sea of ​​Okhotsk. Just to the east, Russia has a chain of islands that it calls the Kuril Islands, but that Tokyo calls the Northern Territories.

Some experts say that This island under the sea could be due to the erosion of water and ice and I would behave a reduction in Japan's territorial waters, according to the Asahi newspaper, citing sources of the Coast Guard.

An association of fishermen of the city of Sarufutsu warned the authorities last September of the absence of the small island, named Esanbehanakitakojima, located about 500 meters from the coast.

A member of the local fishing association, Tomohiko Kihara, studied the situation of the islet with a map map and found that it was not visible from the coast or boats who were sailing in the area.

It's a small island north of Hokkaido that It has been recorded in Japan's geographical archives since 1987 with a height of 1.4 meters above sea level.

In 2014, the Japanese government gave an official name to Esanbehanakitakojima and 157 other uninhabited islands off the coast of Japan in order to concisely define territorial waters.

Veteran fishermen told him that although they remember that an island had existed for decades, they usually avoided the area because the navigation software recorded the land mass as an underwater reef.

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