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...

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...

Ōshima and Toku-no-Shima, two small islands between southern Kyūshū and Okinawa in Japan. Often called a living fossil, the Amami rabbit is a living remnant...

Shima-uta (シマウタ, しまうた, 島歌, 島唄) is a genre of songs originating from the Amami Islands, Kagoshima Prefecture of southwestern Japan. It became known nationwide...

The Northern Ryukyuan languages are a group of languages spoken in the Amami Islands, Kagoshima Prefecture and the Okinawa Islands, Okinawa Prefecture...

Yūki Amami (天海 祐希, Amami Yūki, born August 8, 1967) is a Japanese actress. Amami joined the Takarazuka Revue in 1987 and retired from the stage company...

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...

intonational differences among various shima (villages). Ebara Yoshimori (1905–1988), a folklorist from Naze, Amami Ōshima, conjectured that shimaguchi was...

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...

Munakata District, which became part of the city of Munakata, Fukuoka in 2005 Amami Ōshima in Kagoshima Prefecture Ōshima District, Kagoshima Ōshima Subprefecture...

Shimayumiita), also Toku-No-Shima, is a dialect cluster spoken on Tokunoshima, Kagoshima Prefecture of southwestern Japan. It is part of the Amami–Okinawan languages...

flooding, which did significant damage to agriculture and structures. On Amami-o-Shima, one person was missing and another was badly injured. A ship was sunk...

Documents about Shima kutuba, Okinawa Prefecture Web archives of Okinawan Folktales, Okinawa Prefectural Museum What is a dialect?, Amami Culture Foundation...

term shima-uta originally refers to traditional folk songs of the Amami Islands. It is not a native term of Okinawa but was introduced from Amami in the...

(400 km) island-filled area called Nansei Shoto. Cruising between Amami O Shima and Tokuno Shima late on 12 April, the submarine encountered several enemy vessels...

reconnaissance missions against Okinawa, the Sakishima Gunto, Ie Shima, and Amami O Shima, destroying 28 Japanese aircraft, all on the ground. Task Force...

have been brought to the island around 1890 from Kikaijima, an island near Amami Ōshima. After World War II, the species almost became extinct, and survivors...

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...

sometimes referred to as shima-uta. The term is not native to Okinawa but was borrowed from its northern neighbor, the Amami Islands, in the 1970s. The...

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anchored off Koniya Hakuchi, in the narrow strait between Amami-O-Shima and Kakeroma Shima, wind velocity reached 110 knots; Nields, piloting by radar...

traffic routed well inshore, she hunted unsuccessfully in the Kikaijima, Amami O Shima, and Okinoerabujima areas for the first few days, then searched the...

Nihongi (797), which says that in 714 Ō no Ason Okeji (太朝臣遠建治) paid tribute to Dazaifu with 52 islanders from Amami (奄美), Shigaki (信覚), Kumi (球美) and other...

capabilities to Taku, China, on 13 April and then to Pusan, Korea, and the Amami-O-Shima Islands. Following several months of operations in Chinese and Japanese...

Dogo Maru-class auxiliary transport was torpedoed and sunk north of Amami O-Shima (29°48′N 128°02′E / 29.800°N 128.033°E / 29.800; 128.033) by USS Kete...

Sayaka Akimoto Tsubasa Akimoto Yoko Akino Rio Akisada Kumiko Akiyoshi Yūki Amami Chisato Amate Eiko Ando Sakura Andō Yū Aoi Wakana Aoi Mayuko Aoki Tsuru...

at Amami-O-Shima by a typhoon. Honan Maru  Japan Convoy No. 197: The Type 1K standard merchant-class ore carrier was driven ashore at Amami-O-Shima by...

(絆; bonds) [2009.03.25] Koi (恋; Love) [2002.07.24] Various Artists – Amami Shima Uta (#2. Asabanabushi No. 9. Kurudando, No. 13. Rankanhashi) [2004.05...

Field, Aparri, Formosa, French Indo-China, Saigon, Pescadores, Hainan, Amami O Shima, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, and Japan. The attack on Japan was the first attack...

Sachiko Hidari (1963) Shima Iwashita (1964) Ayako Wakao (1965) Yoko Tsukasa (1966) Ruriko Asaoka (1975) Kumiko Akiyoshi (1976) Shima Iwashita (1977) Meiko...