Local News

Local residents were concerned that a large amount of sedimentation caused by intense rains in the area would destroy the coral reefs off of Amami, Kagoshima Prefecture. Researchers from Kumamoto University used an unmanned probe to discover that the coral had grown back to close to its original state, however. They attribute the removal of the sedimentation to the passage of Typhoon #14 through the area eight days after the rains.