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Starting with plate movement that began around 26 million years ago, the Japanese Archipelago, including the Oki Islands, gradually began moving away from the Eurasian supercontinent. A large lake formed in the area between Japan and Eurasia, and what became Oki was at the bottom of this lake.s the separation from the mainland continued, the land split and let in sea water, and the lake metamorphosed into the ocean. This is the formation of the Sea of Japan. What tells us about this process are shark tooth fossils discovered in a strata that formed around 16 million years ago.
The volcanoes that built Japan's newest island last erupted in the mid-1970s, along the Izu-Ogasawara-Mariana Trench. Follow Brian Clark Howard on Twitter and Google+. Japan got just a little bit bigger this week, as a volcano created abrand new island about 600 miles (970 kilometers) south of Tokyo. The island is about 660 feet (200 meters) in diameter, according to the Japanese coast guard. It sits off the coast of Nishinoshima, itself a small, uninhabited island in a group of about 30 islands known as the Bonin Islands, or the Ogasawara chain.