Total Solar Eclipse of 2009 July 22 in Japan, China and the Marshall Islands The point of greatest eclipse (totality phase during 6 min 39 sec : the longest for the remainer of our life and of the 21st century) lies in the Pacific Ocean southeast of Japan. The mountainous Japanese island of Ishinomura-Kitaio will offer us 6 minutes and 36 seconds of darkness, and at the same time the best weather