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Shimokita

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Shimokita 

a peninsula 90 km long at the northeastern end of the Japanese island of Honshu. Shimokita has volcanoes with elevations to 879 m. There are broadleaf and coniferous forests. The cities of Mutsu and Ominato are located on the peninsula.



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The police received a report from a man who was fishing near Omazaki Cape on the northernmost tip of the Shimokita Peninsula that a helicopter flying over the sea went out of sight followed immediately by a loud noise.
The police received a report from a person who said a helicopter flying over the sea went out of sight followed by a loud noise near Omazaki Cape on the northernmost tip of the Shimokita Peninsula.
When Rick Tanaka, documentary maker Tom Zubricky and I visited the far north-eastern corner of the main island of Honshu in January 1989, meeting citizens groups for a film project, we inspected the site of what was to have been a huge 'enterprise zone' on the peninsular of Shimokita, one of Japan's bleakest regions, in the far north-east corner of Aomori prefecture.
 
 
 
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