Tokyo

Wow! Devron has just sent me on a business trip to Tokyo! This is awesome, although I don't know Japanese. Luckily, they didn't stick me in one of the "modern" hotels like this:

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My actual hotel looks like this:

http://myi2.us/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/hotel-room-2.jpeg

I now need to visit every suggested tour site for our guest. What tiring work! ;)

Anyways,  there is a subduction zone very near Tokyo. This means that the tectonic plate which makes up the ocean is pushing against the tectonic plate Japans is on, and because Japan's plate is lighter or less dense, it floats higher in the water that that of the oceanic plate ,and therefore it slides under Japan's plate. The area where the oceanic plate starts disappearing under the continental plate is called the trench.

http://www.windows2universe.org/earth/images/convection.gif