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The Japan Trench is an oceanic trench, a part of the Pacific Ring of Fire, in the floor of the northern Pacific Ocean off northeast Japan. It extends from the Kuril Islands to the Bonin Islands and is 9,000 m (30,000 ft) at its deepest. It is an extension of the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench to the north and the Izu-Ogasawara Trench to its south. This trench is created when the oceanic Pacific plate subducts beneath the continental Eurasian plate. The subduction process, together with the friction created 'drags' the plates downwards, causing a deep-sea trench to be formed. The Japan Trench is one of the causes of the tsunamis and earthquakes in Japan.

On 11 August 1989, the Shinkai 6500 three-person submersible descended to 6,526 m (21,411 ft) while exploring the Japan Trench.

In October 2008, a UK-Japan team discovered a shoal of fish, Pseudoliparis amblystomopsis at a depth of 7.7 km (4.8 mi) in the trench, these are believed to be the deepest living fish ever recorded.

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"'Deepest ever' living fish filmed". BBC News. 7 October 2008. Retrieved 2008-10-07.

40°07′N 144°19′E / 40.117°N 144.317°E / 40.117; 144.317

v t e Tectonic plates of East and North Asia (Eurasian plate-Pacific plate Convergence Zone)
Large	Amur plate Okhotsk plate Philippine Sea plate Yangtze plate
Small	Mariana plate Okinawa plate Philippine Mobile Belt
Faults and rift zones	Aomori Bay West Coast Fault Zone Baikal Rift Zone Haiyuan Fault Fukozu Fault Futagawa-Hinagu fault zone Idosawa Fault Itoigawa-Shizuoka Tectonic Line Izu–Bonin–Mariana Arc Japan Median Tectonic Line Longmenshan Fault Neodani Fault Nojima Fault Northeastern Japan Arc Philippine Fault System Senya Fault Tanna Fault Ulakhan Fault Urasoko fault
Trenches and troughs	Kuril Trench Mariana Trench Japan Eastern margin of the Sea of Japan Izu–Ogasawara Trench Japan Trench Nankai Trough Okinawa Trough Ryukyu Trench Sagami Trough Suruga Trough Philippines Manila Trench Philippine Trench
Others	Boso triple junction

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