PLEASE NOTE: EDIT CONTAINS MATERIAL THAT WAS ORIGINALLY 4:3<br/> <br />ROUGH CUT - NO REPORTER NARRATION<br/> <br />Japan added another small area to its territory on Wednesday (November 20) after an undersea volcano eruption in the southern Ogasawara chain of islands led to the birth of a small new one.<br/> <br />Footage from Japan's coast guard shows the a 200 metre (650 feet) diameter island emerging under a plume of ash, close to another small uninhabited island in the chain.<br/> <br />Smoke from the eruption reached a height of almost 600 metres (1,960 feet) into the air.<br/> <br />Japan's government spokesman on Thursday (November 21) welcomed the new addition to Japan's estimated 6,000 islands, which while over a thousand kilometres to the south would technically be part of Tokyo if it survives its eruptions.<br/> <br />Officials say it is too early to start naming the island as there have been instances where newly formed islands have sunk back into the waves.
