Even if it began there, the rupture extended far beyond the swarm region, both farther along the Noto Peninsula and undersea toward Sado Island.

Against this backdrop, a team of researchers led by Dr. Yasuo Kawakami from Waseda University, including Dr. Katsuki Takahashi from Doshisha University, Dr. Hiroto Shiotani from Waseda University, Dr. Pavlos E. Evangelidis from the University of Exeter, and Dr. Natsuki Sado from the University of Tsukuba embarked on an innovative research project, the findings of which were published in Volume 55, Issue 11 of Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise® in November 2023.

Then he settled with his wife on Sado, the quiet island where she had grown up.

In retirement, he became a minor tourist attraction on Sado, wrote an autobiography and spoke to both TV and print journalists.

It detected one Russian information-gathering aircraft IL-20 flying round-trip from the Sea of Okhotsk to the Pacific and another IL-20 flying toward the waters near Sado Island before turning toward the continent, the ministry said.