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Three weather ships to be retired

The Meteorological Agency plans to retire three of its five ships monitoring weather in coastal waters next March due to technological advances in weather observation systems, agency sources said Friday. In a major change in the role of Japanese weather... ...full story at Japan Times

from Japan Times on Fri, Nov 06 2009

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