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Acoording to legend, the islands of Japan were formed by water droplets. The water droplets came from the tip of a god's golden spear. Obviously, this is technically probably not the case, but who knows if legends are true, right?

True, thats sounds like an interesting story, but the islands of Japan were formed by volcanic activity

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People made it


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