A remote island in Japan, some 180 kilometers south of the capital Tokyo, is hoping that recent recognition by a U.S.-based nonprofit organization of its efforts to preserve its starry night skies will be a boon for local tourism.The village of Kozushima, part of the Izu island chain, is the first in Tokyo to be certified in early December as an "international dark sky park" by the International Dark-Sky Association, an Arizona-based group founded by astronomers to prevent light pollution."We are very proud of the work that Kozushima has done to reverse the trend of light pollution and prot…READ FULL ARTICLE
