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The Amami Islands are limestone islands of coralline origin and have a total area of approximately 1,240.28 square kilometres (478.87 sq mi), of which 308.3 square kilometres (119.0 sq mi) constitute the city (-shi) of Amami, and 931.9 square kilometres (359.8 sq mi) constitute the district (-gun) of Oshima.
When a panel of natural scientists formally added it to Japan's tentative list of nomination, it was given the name of Ryūkyū Shotō. [7] This followed a convention of natural sciences but is inconsistent with the official definition provided by the Japanese government, which excludes the Amami Islands from the Ryūkyū Shotō .
In December 2001 there was a naval battle called the Battle of Amami-Ōshima between an armed North Korean spy craft and Japanese Coast Guard ships near Amami Ōshima. The spy craft violated the Exclusive economic zone of Japan. This was a six-hour confrontation that ended with the sinking of the North Korean vessel. [5] [6]
View a machine-translated version of the Japanese article. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate , is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.
Amami Japanese (トン普通語, Ton-futsūgo) is a variety of the Japanese language spoken on the island of Amami Ōshima. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Its native term Ton-futsūgo means "potato standard". Much like Okinawan Japanese , it is a descendant of Standard Japanese but with influences from the traditional Ryukyuan languages (in this case, Amami ...
The armed trawler was detected by a communications station in Kikaijima, Kagoshima, which was under control of the Japanese Defense Intelligence Headquarters. [7] In 1999, another North Korean vessel encountered by the Japanese Coast Guard was claimed by Japan to have been a spy craft, though North Korea denied it. [8]
Source: Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism [1] Amami Airport ( 奄美空港 , Amami Kūkō ) ( IATA : ASJ , ICAO : RJKA ) is an airport located 21.9 km (13.6 mi) east northeast of Amami , a city on Amami Ōshima (Amami Island) in the Kagoshima Prefecture of Japan.
Ami (阿見町, Ami-machi) is a town located in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 October 2020 [update] , the town had an estimated population of 47,927 in 20,279 households and a population density of 671 persons per km 2 .