Japan has announced it will spend more than $100 million rebuilding structures on a distant atoll whose total land mass is less than 100 sq. ft., reports the South China Morning Post. The atoll, Okinotorishima, sits in the Philippine Sea about 1,000 miles south of Tokyo. Despite its diminutive size, Okinotorishima, which comprises a natural reef and several small man-made embankments, extends Japa
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