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Vapor billows from rocks appearing above the sea near the area where a one-kilometer high column of water vapor shot up in the Pacific Ocean, on Sunday, July 3, 2005 at Fukutokuoka-no-ba. Press photos distributed by the Japanese Coast Guard.
