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    Amami Ōshima (奄美大島, Okinawan: Uushima (ウーシマ); Amami: Ushima (ウシマ)), also known as Amami, is the largest island in the Amami archipelago between Kyūshū...
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  • Ōshima, Oshima, Ooshima or Ohshima may refer to: Ōshima (大島, lit. "big island") (sorted by prefecture): Ōshima (Aomori), an island in Hiranai and a part...
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    of volcanoes in Japan "Oshima-Oshima". Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2021-06-25. "OSHIMA O-SHIMA". Quaternary Volcanoes...
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  • the success of young pop singers from Amami Ōshima such as Hajime Chitose and Atari Kōsuke. Although shima-uta is often considered to represent Amami's...
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  • on Amami Ōshima (Amami Island) in the Kagoshima Prefecture of Japan. Amami Airport was opened as Amami Oshima Airport (奄美大島空港, Amami-Ōshima Kūkō) on June...
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    between "Ō-shima" and "U-shima" 1945 US AMS map showing, near the bottom, "No Jima", between "Ō-shima" and "U-shima", and "Taisaki-Shima", immediately...
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    Nagisa Ōshima (大島 渚, Ōshima Nagisa, March 31, 1932 – January 15, 2013) was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. One of the foremost directors within...
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    villages; all part of Tokyo Prefecture. The largest is Izu Ōshima, usually called simply Ōshima. Although usually called the "Seven Islands of Izu" (伊豆七島...
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    Amami Ōshima, shimaguchi contrasted with Yamatoguchi, while shimayumuta was associated with accentual and intonational differences among various shima (villages)...
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    the inhabited islands north of Mikura-jima (Izu Ōshima, To-shima, Nii-jima, Shikine-jima, Kōzu-shima and Miyake-jima) in the Izu Archipelago, part of...
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    Chitose, born January 5, 1979) is a Japanese singer from Amami Ōshima. She sings in the shima-uta style particular to that region, with distinctive falsetto...
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    were divided into shima. A magiri was comparable to a Japanese prefecture while shima were individual villages. There were about 800 shima in the Ryukyu Kingdom...
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    is a dark-furred species of rabbit which is only found on Amami Ōshima and Toku-no-Shima, two small islands between southern Kyūshū and Okinawa in Japan...
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    District. In 1896, the island was transferred to the administrative control of Ōshima District, Kagoshima, and from 1911 was administered as part of the village...
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    island of Iyo (伊予之二名島 Iyo-no-Futana-no-Shima, modern Shikoku) The triple islands of Oki (隠伎之三子島 Oki-no-Mitsugo-no-Shima) Tsukushi (筑紫島, modern Kyushu) Iki...
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  • The Naked Island (Japanese: 裸の島, romanized: Hadaka no Shima) is a Japanese black-and-white film from 1960, directed by Kaneto Shindō. The film is notable...
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  • romanized: Koniya Shuwa), or Amami Oshima Sign (AOSL; 奄美大島手話, Amamioshima Shuwa) is a village sign language, or group of languages, on Amami Ōshima, the largest island...
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  • professionally known as Rikki (りっき), is a Japanese folk singer. Born in Amami Ōshima, Japan, she began to sing traditional Japanese music when she was four years...
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    the southwest of "O-shima" ("Ko-jima" on the next map) 1946 US AMS map showing "Kuru-shima", to the southwest of "Ko-jima" ("O-shima" on the previous map)...
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  • (2023) Masaaki Tezuka Michiru Oshima Godzilla vs Megaguirus (2000) Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla (2002) Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. (2003) Betty Thomas Richard...
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  • Japan made him a central figure in the Shōchiku New Wave alongside Nagisa Ōshima and Yoshishige Yoshida. He worked in a variety of genres, from the yakuza...
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  • Yukiko Okamoto Megumi Okina Makoto Okunaka Kazusa Okuyama Aya Omasa Yuko Oshima Ichika Osaki Itsumi Osawa Chihiro Otsuka Sayuri Oyamada Jenny Pat (Jenny...
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    languages (琉球語派, Ryūkyū-goha, also 琉球諸語, Ryūkyū-shogo or 島言葉 in Ryukyuan, Shima kutuba, literally "Island Speech"), also Lewchewan or Luchuan (/luːˈtʃuːən/)...
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  • Begin no Shima Uta (Omato-take O) and a regular studio album, Begin. Two versions backed with sanshin appear on Begin no Shima Uta (Omato-take O) (one in...
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  • is late 1921, the 10th year of the Taishō era. Tamahiko Shima, second son of the wealthy Shima family, has his life turned upside-down after his right...
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    p. 412. Yamamoto, Hiroko (2008). "Hi no shima no shinwa to saishi: 'Miyake-ki' o yomu (< tokushū > shūkyō o meguru chūsei no gensetsu)" 火の島の神話と祭祀 :...
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  • Shima Hotel -Next Door- (Wowow, 2022) - Haruka Okita Blue Birthday (KTV, 2023) - Mayuki Suhara Shōri no Hōteishiki episode 2 (YTV, 2023) - Aya Ōshima...
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  • Tokunoshima language (シマグチ (島口) Shimaguchi or シマユミィタ Shimayumiita), also Toku-No-Shima, is a dialect cluster spoken on Tokunoshima, Kagoshima Prefecture of southwestern...
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    Mizoguchi, Mikio Naruse, Heinosuke Gosho, Keisuke Kinoshita and Nagisa Ōshima. Devoted to her profession, she frequently wrote and lectured on the art...
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  • no Joan D'arc" (from AKB48 Team B 3rd stage "Pajama Drive") "Kairyū no Shima o" (by Mikumo Ando, Hina Kawago, Asuka Saito, Himeka Nakamoto, Seira Hatanaka...
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