Inside a National Park on Honshu Island, this Geopark is a successful example of integrating geological heritage and local development.

UNESCO: NATURAL SCIENCES

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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The eye of Melor is forecast to track across the Japanese island of Honshu, passing north of Tokyo.

BBC: Weather - Melor affects the south of Japan

Its most destructive on record was an 8.4 magnitude earthquake on Sept. 1, 1923 on the main, central, island of Honshu.

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It is the second of three big bridges planned in the early 1970s to link Japan's main island of Honshu to Shikoku.

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Oku-noto no Aenokoto is an agricultural ritual transmitted from generation to generation by the rice farmers of the Noto Peninsula, which projects from Ishikawa prefecture in the centre of Japan s main island, Honshu.

UNESCO: Culture

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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"Taepodong shock" followed in 1998, when North Korea lobbed a ballistic missile over Honshu, the main Japanese island, and into the Pacific Ocean.

FORBES: Magazine Article

It was centered on Aomori and Iwate prefectures on the northeast end of Honshu, Japan's main island.

NPR: Top Of The News

Despite a tunnel between Hokkaido and northern Honshu, Japan's main island, connections to the country's industrial heartland are poor.

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