It sits in the middle of the Japan current, a nutrient-rich stream that feeds a stunning variety of crustaceans, tropical fish and other sealife.
And passing legislation to change that law in Japan's current divided Parliament won't be easy.
The current Japan Government is the most right wing government of Japan since World War II.
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Matters will only get worse, and Japan's current recession still mild by Western standards could turn into something really frightening.
Japan's current-account surplus in February was 46% bigger than a year earlier, partly thanks to rising exports to China.
But is there another larger issue that the Chinese government would not like to raise, comparing current Japan and China?
For a prime minister thrown into Japan's current political mess, in other words, success is measured in months, not years.
And, on Monday, figures were released showing that Japan's current-account surplus rose in February for the eighth month in a row.
Japan's current loss of technological confidence, in contrast, comes not from some external threat, but from failures within its own borders.
Such a design would not be permitted under Japan's current building codes.
One of the candidates was running as a member of the Democratic Party of Japan (the current governing majority in the Diet lower house).
Arguably, it was the subsequent failure to address the damage to the financial system in a timely manner that caused Japan's current economic problems...
"Japan should have had some kind of investigation into what went wrong, " says Diet member Kono, 37, whose father is Japan's current Foreign Minister.
The team boasts seven players who are former or current Japan international representatives -- including several who appeared at the 2006 World Cup in Germany.
"In a way he has been a little bit exaggerating the need for U.S. troops in Okinawa for the defense of Japan at the current moment, " Michishita says.
Other malcontents blame America for most of Japan's current woes.
Likewise, Japan's current economic position is subject to interpretation.
But is not a stronger yen and a weaker dollar just what is needed to reduce Japan's large current-account surplus and America's current-account deficit?
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Elsewhere, Japan -- the current FIFA Women's World Cup holders -- beat Canada 2-1, thanks to goals from Nahomi Kawasumi and Aya Miyama at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry.
For Japan this means an unwinding of the structures and alignments of the current U.S.-Japan security relationship.
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Under current plans, Japan is expected to meet half of its electrical needs from nuclear power by the year 2030.
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This is the only silver-lining for the current quake in Japan.
Could you give us your assessment of the current situation in Japan with the reactors, what you think is going to happen in the coming days?
"The current Bank of Japan policy has more to do with the consensus about the economy in policy circles than it does with a specific governor, " says Morgan Stanley's Feldman.
However, he said Kuroda's policies would be unlikely to differ much from the current Bank of Japan governor, Masaaki Shirakawa, despite perceptions that Shirakawa favors a less aggressive policy approach.
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.
That includes setting an inflation target of 2% - double that of the Bank of Japan's (BOJ) current target.
In its statement, FOMC members blamed Japan and high commodities for the current slowdown in the economic recovery, telling people those effects would prove to be transitory.
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As a result, the U.S. could capture 2 to 4 percent of exports from the four European countries and 3 to 7 percent from Japan by the end of the current decade.
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