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The Japanese slave away in enclosed beaches and slopes

What could be more idyllic than a day at the beach, especially if you're an overworked salaryman with little leisure time to spare? But the weather can also be unpredictable, the waves petulant and uneven, the flotsam yucky. Now those who don't want to risk a less than perfect holiday can frolic at the Seagaia complex in Miyazaki, on the Japanese island of Kyushu, 930 miles south of Tokyo. The ocean that surges and rolls within it, chlorinated and free of salt, has a clearly defined width of 462 ft. and washes a shoreline 280 ft. long, composed of 600 tons...

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