First one ever found in Japan.
"Tokyo - A crater from a meteorite impact more than 20 000 years ago has been discovered in the Japanese Alps, an amateur geologist announced this week. The crater is the first found in this country.
Yup. I caught that on the initial read of your [as usual, excellent]post.
Maybe it's just me, but the fact that one is found in Japan doesn't come as a major find. No more than if the first one ever was found in Belgium, or Greece, or...[fill in the blank].