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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.
During the Nara period and early Heian period it was a stopping place for envoys from Japan to the court of Tang dynasty China. Mother of pearl was an important export item to Japan. Between 1571 and 1611, Amami Ōshima was briefly incorporated as part of the Ryukyu Kingdom as it expanded northwards along the archipelago.
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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 ...
Ameba (Japanese pronunciation: アメーバ, Amēba) is a Japanese blogging and social networking website. In December 2009, Ameba launched Ameba Now, a micro-blogging platform competing with Twitter. [1] In March 2009 Ameba launched Ameba Pico, a Facebook app for the English market based on the virtual community Ameba Pigg.
They gained mainstream success in Japan in 1998 following the release of their album, Jet and continued with several more full-length releases (totaling 15 million sales in Japan). [3] In 2004, an animated series featuring animated versions of themselves, Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi, premiered on the US's Cartoon Network. Although their characters were ...
According to the legend, the formation of Japan began with the creation of eight large islands by Izanagi and Izanami. In order of birth these islands are the following: [6] Awaji-no-ho-no-sawake-no-shima (淡道之穂之狭別島): currently, Awaji Island; Iyo-no-futana-no-shima (伊予之二名島): currently, Shikoku. This island had a body ...
Voiced by: Gen Satō (Japanese); Ry McKeand [2] (English) A 16-year-old boy orphaned by the Boundary Wars, he became a mechanic after discovering an abandoned AMAIM workshop, in which he found a left-over human-piloted, interface-comtrolled AMAIM unit, whose name Gai identifies as "Kenbu", and later becomes its designated pilot.