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Loving and Loathing Japan's Concrete Coasts, Where Tetrapods Reign

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Stephen Hesse
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Standing strong year after year, from sunrise to sunrise, silent sentinels unmoved by summer's raging typhoons and winter's crashing ice floes.

Not sure what to think of tetrapods? Not even sure what they are? Well, fear not, you're probably in the majority.

But what you don't know may surprise you.

Among those who do know and care, tetrapods inspire passionate and widely divergent opinions.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 5 , Issue 7 , July 2007 , e21
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