Volcanic lightning caught on camera in Japan

Forks of lightning flash within an ash cloud as molten lava erupts from a volcano.

This incredible weather sensation is known as volcanic lightning — and it has been caught on film by a tourist in Japan.

Filmmaker Marc Szeglat, from Germany, shot these images near the active Sakurajima volcano on the island of Kyushu between March 2 and 7.

The rare lightning phenomenon happens when hot rocks and gases collide during an eruption and produce static charges.

Szeglat also filmed the explosive shockwave which rippled through the sky afterwards.

"The lightning is very rare and does not appear in a normal ash cloud but in clouds from pyroclastic flows, which are mixtures of rock fragments and hot gases," the 47-year-old said.

"Pyroclastic flows are the most dangerous hazards on volcanoes and so I was a little bit afraid when a big one was happening in front of me, but in fact the whole experience was a great adventure."

Sakurajima, translated as Cherry Island, has been erupting on a regular basis since 1955 and is a constant danger to the nearby city of Kagoshima, which has a population of more than 600,000.

March 17, 2015: A German filmmaker has captured footage of the rare but spectacular volcanic lightning phenomenon, at the Sakurajima volcano in Japan.
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When the Emperor was Divine

At the point when the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka, I incidentally perused twice. Has any other individual ever had that sort of light minute, when things begin to sound enigmatically recognizable?

 It just took 11 pages for that perusing flashbulb to go ahead with a scene so clear and visual and extraordinary that at first I wasn't certain in the event that I'd seen it in a motion picture or read it in a book (this book).

It is spring of 1942, in the beginning of WWII. Clearing requests for more than 100,000 Japanese Americans living on the West Coast have been posted. Japanese AMERICANS who've done nothing incorrectly; who love baseball and school, who own stores and homes and minimal white pooches, whose just wrongdoing is their heritage, are abruptly adversary outsiders and requested to leave their homes to dwell in internment camps far away.

This book is around one family's encounters. Told in scanty, basic writing, it concentrates on the little things, the calm points of interest. It feels uncovered. Direct. Unpretentious. Tragic.

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UN Head Urges Better Safeguards For Climate Disasters

SENDAI, JAPAN — The president of the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu appealed to a U.N. disaster conference Saturday for help as a powerful cyclone swept across his archipelago, driving painfully home the rising risks from extreme weather and climate change.

"I am speaking to you today with a heart that is so heavy. I do not really know what impact the cyclone has had on Vanuatu," Vanuatu's president, Baldwin Lonsdale, told the U.N. World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in the northeastern Japanese city of Sendai.

"I stand to appeal on behalf of the government and the people to give a helping hand in this disaster," he said.

U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon told the conference earlier he met with Lonsdale to express condolences and solidarity. The U.N. said it was prepared to deploy emergency response teams to the islands.

Preventing disaster is "everybody's business," Ban said, urging better help and more safeguards for the world's poorest and weakest people as the threat from climate-related disasters grows.

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, right, shakes hands with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during their talk in Sendai, March 14, 2015, on the sidelines of the World Conference on Disaster Risk and Reduction. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT AP

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MORIKAMI EXPERIENCE

The Morikami Museum is one of the Treasures of Florida.

This is a charming and interesting Museum and Japanese Garden! The Garden celebrates a century old connection between Japan and South Florida in the early 1900's.