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The Sakishima Islands beyond the straights are antipodal to Paraguay, from the Brazilian border almost to Asunción, with Ishigaki overlapping San Isidro de Curuguaty, and the uninhabited Senkaku Islands surrounding Villarrica.
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The country consists of four principal islands: Hokkaidō, Honshū, Shikoku, and Kyūshū ; more than 3, 000 adjacent islands and islets, including Izu Ōshima in the Nanpō Islands ; and more than 200 other smaller islands, including those of the Amami, Okinawa, and Sakishima chains of the Ryukyu Islands.
Japanese Jōmon influences are dominant in the Okinawa Islands, although clay vessels in the Sakishima Islands have a commonality with those in Taiwan.
So are Taiwan's offshore islands, all but one of the Batan Islands in the north of the Philippines, and all of the Sakishima Islands in the west of Japan.
about the peoples in the Sakishima Islands reported that a part of the peoples in Miyako Island and Ishigaki Island also show the marks of YAP + ( 53 % and 26 % respectively ), being clearly different from Taiwanese aborigines.
** Trimeresurus elegans, a. k. a. the Sakishima habu, found in the southern Ryukyu Islands
Map of Okinawa Prefecture, including Sakishima Islands ( Miyako Islands | Miyako and Yaeyama Islands | Yaeyama )
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The Sakishima Islands were first documented in the Shoku Nihongi ( 797 ), which says that in 714 paid tribute to Dazaifu with 52 islanders from,, and other islands.
Stone tools and shell tools from 2, 500 years ago have been excavated from shell mounds on the Sakishima Islands.
Nakasone succeeded in suppressing Oyake's revolt, and the majority of the Sakishima Islands went under Ryūkyū's control.
As a result of the extreme economic conditions, infanticide and other methods of population control became common, as they did throughout the Ryukyus ; remains of the sites where this took place can still be found throughout the Sakishima Islands.
China effectively conceded its claims to sovereignty over the Ryukyus, including the Sakishima Islands, following its defeat by Japan in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-95.
Unlike Okinawa Island, the Sakishima Islands did not suffer a ground war during World War II.
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In March 1945, while supporting the invasion of Okinawa, the BPF had sole responsibility for operations in the Sakishima Islands.
Shell rings for arms made of shells obtained in the Sakishima Islands, namely Miyakojima and Yaeyama islands, were imported by Japan.
* History of Sakishima Islands
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They are also known to eat Sakishima rice frogs, yellow-spotted crickets, and crabs.
The ( or 先島群島, Sakishima guntō ) ( Okinawan: Sachishima ) are an island chain located at the southernmost end of the Japanese Archipelago.
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Victorious, including 849 in its Carrier Air Group, took part in operations in support of the American invasion of Okinawa from March to May 1945, flying strikes against airfields used by Japanese Kamikaze aircraft on the Sakishima Islands and on Formosa.
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The modernization of Sakishima by the Japanese government was slow compared with mainland Japan or even mainland Okinawa.
* January 3 – 4 – U. S. Navy Task Force 38 begins its support of the U. S. invasion of Lingayen Gulf with carrier air strikes against Japanese forces and facilities on Formosa, the Pescadores, the Sakishima Gunto, and Okinawa, with the loss of 22 U. S. aircraft.
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Buddhism probably spread to the Maldives in the third century BC, at the time of the Mauryan emperor Aśoka the Great, when it extended to the regions of Afghanistan and Central Asia, beyond the Mauryas ' northwest border, as well as South to the island of Sri Lanka and the Maldive Islands.
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The Pribilof Islands are a birdwatching attraction, home to many species that do not fly in North America beyond Alaska.
Zhejiang borders Jiangsu province and Shanghai municipality to the north, Anhui province to the northwest, Jiangxi province to the west, and Fujian province to the south ; to the east is the East China Sea, beyond which lie the Ryukyu Islands of Japan.
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The east rift zone continues under the ocean beyond the east coast of Maui as Haleakalā Ridge, making the combined rift zones one of the longest in the Hawaiian Islands chain.
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The layer is dotted with islands, known collectively as the Isles of the Holy Dead, the Isles of the Blessed, the Hills of Avalon, the Islands beyond the World, and the Heroic Isles.
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The steep path up to the ridge gives splendid views across the cities of Berkeley and Oakland, and beyond to San Francisco Bay, the Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco ; on clear days, especially in winter, the Farallon Islands, about 44 miles ( 70 km ) away, can be seen beyond the Golden Gate.
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For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty as leader of a Rifle Platoon attached to the 2d Battalion, 27th Marines, 5th Marine Division, in action against enemy Japanese forces on Iwo Jima in the Volcano Islands, 8 March 1945.
For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty near Munda Airstrip, New Georgia, Solomon Islands, on 29 July 1943.
Forests from Tierra del Fuego have expanded beyond local importance ; they have been a source of trees that have been planted abroad in places with practically the same climate but which were originally devoid of trees like Faroe Islands and nearby archipelagos.
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