{"id":53593,"date":"2025-07-06T17:25:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T11:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=53593"},"modified":"2025-07-07T17:32:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T12:02:57","slug":"tokara-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/tokara-islands\/","title":{"rendered":"Tokara Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Tokara Islands Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In an unprecedented seismic event, more than 1,000 earthquakes have rattled the Tokara Islands in southern Japan over the past two weeks.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>About Tokara Islands<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Tokara Islands are a small <\/span><b>archipelago in Japan, south of Kyushu<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and n<\/span><b>orth of the Amami Islands.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They are also sometimes<\/span><b> known as the Toshima Island<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">s, and the name is preserved in the name of the administrative division, Toshima-mura, that covers them.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It consists of <\/span><b>seven inhabited islands <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(from north to south: Kuchinoshima, Nakanoshima, Suwanosejima, Tairajima, Akusekijima, Kodakarajima, and Takarajima) and <\/span><b>five uninhabited island<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">s (Gajajima, Kogajajima, Kojima, Kaminonejima, and Yokoatejima).\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a permanently inhabited municipality stretching over an area of about 160 kilometers,<\/span><b> Toshima is \u201cJapan\u2019s longest village.\u201d<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Nakanoshima <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is the<\/span><b> largest island<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of Toshima Village in both area and population.<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Mount Otake <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">dominates the<\/span><b> northern section of Nakanoshima.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> At 979 meters, it is the <\/span><b>highest mountain in the island group.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Climate<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It lies <\/span><b>between the subtropical and temperate zones<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, with an average annual temperature of 20\u00baC.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The weather is warm, and nearly all areas are frostless. The annual rainfall is about 2,700 millimeters.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\">The islands are situated in one of the <b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">most seismically active regions of the world.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Source<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/world-news\/japan-tokara-earthquakes-manga-doomsday-viral-prediction-july-125070500418_1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BS<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tokara Islands are a small archipelago in Japan, south of Kyushu and north of the Amami Islands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":53780,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,1369,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-53593","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-prelims-pointers","9":"tag-tokara-islands","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}