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Japan: Drillers target earthquake zone

"The place we are going to has a history of disastrous earthquakes and tsunami every 100 or 200 years; and these have resulted in the deaths of many people," explained Chief Project Scientist Masataka Kino****a, from the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (Jamstec). "There is a strong need in the Japanese community to know what is going on under the sea floor," he told BBC News.

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