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Huge, dazzling fireball burns across western sky above Tokyo : The Asahi Shimbun

A fireball, or a huge dazzling shooting star, travels across the western sky above Tokyo on the night of Jan. 20. (The Asahi Shimbun) A brilliant fireball lit up the night sky as it streaked through the western sky over Tokyo on Jan. 20 at about 8:30 p.m. and could be seen over a wide area. The meteor continued shining brightly for more than five seconds at a magnitude of minus 10, almost as bright as that of the waxing moon. Since the night skies were clear in many prefectures stretching from Tokyo, the fireball could be readily spotted by many people looking up into the sky. 

Study: Migration to Ryukyu isles from Taiwan was no accident : The Asahi Shimbun

An attempt to replicate a human migration from Taiwan to Yonagunijima island in Okinawa Prefecture showed that a dugout canoe can cross the Kuroshio Current. (Provided by the Holistic Reenactment Project of the Voyage 30,000 Years Ago) The ancestors of Japanese who settled in the Ryukyu Islands about 30,000 years ago were likely “explorers” from Taiwan who had a clear destination in mind, a group of researchers said. One generally accepted theory has been that the first inhabitants landed on the Ryukyu Islands, current-day Okinawa Prefecture, by chance after being swept away by the Kuroshio Current. However, the research group, comprising members from the University of Tokyo and other institutions, said its analysis of buoy movements and other findings strongly show that the travelers did not accidentally end up there.

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