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	佐渡観光Navi〜ときめき佐渡〜
		Sado Island lies in the Japan Sea isolated from the mainland　by the 35　kilometer　Sado Strait.
		In the ancient and middle ages, Sado was the island of exile.
		Since its gold financially supported the Tokugawa, Sado was under the direct control of the government, and many people regarded as homeless were caught and brought to work in the mine.
	www.sadokankou.gr.jp /info/e_top.asp (290 words)

	Sado, Niigata - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sado (佐渡市, -shi) is a city located on Sado Island (佐渡島 or 佐渡ヶ島, both Sadogashima) in the Chubu region of Niigata Prefecture, Japan.
		The island formed a distinct province, the Sado Province, separate from the Echigo province on Honshu, at the beginning of the 8th century.
		Sado tourism industry suffered direct (though limited) as well as indirect damage from the 2004 Chuetsu Earthquake, as access routes inside the Niigata prefecture were cut.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sado_Island (1242 words)

	Sado Province - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sado (佐渡国 Sado-no-kuni) was a province of Japan until the late 19th century; since then, it has been a part of Niigata Prefecture.
		It lies on the eponymous Sado Island, off the coast of Niigata prefecture (or in the past, Echigo province).
		Sado was one of Japan's more remote areas, and nobles and aristocrats were often exiled to Sado when out of favor.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sado_province (162 words)

	HERPETOLOGY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Honshu or Hondo, the neighboring islands of Sado and Awaji, and the Seven Islands of Idzu.
		The zoogeography of the herpetofauna of the Philippine Islands, a fringing archipelago.
		A new lizard of the genus Emoia (Scincidae) from the Marianas Islands.
	www.calacademy.org /research/scipubs/herpproc.htm (2078 words)

	Sado Island travel guide - Wikitravel
		Sado Island (佐渡ヶ島 Sadogashima, [1]) is an island off the coast of Niigata in the Chubu region of Japan.
		Sado is home of the Toki (Japanese Crested Ibis), however there are no wild Ibis left in Sado (the last known wild Japan-born Japanese Crested Ibis died in 2003), so visitors should head for the Sado Toki Preservation Center in order to watch the famed birds (from afar).
		Sado is known for its fresh seafood: sashimis and sushis are not to be missed.
	wikitravel.org /en/Sado_Island (2056 words)

	Sado-ga-shima Island Guide - Japan Reference
		The island of Sado-ga-shima is 35km of the coast of Honshu, facing Niigata.
		Sado acting as a penal colony, prisoners were made to work as slaves in the freezing gold mines, a practice which continued until the end of WWII, when POW's and Korean workers were made to toil for the benefit of zaibatsu such as Mitsubishi, which owned the mines.
		Ferries and faster hydrofoils operated by Sado Kisen run several times a day between Niigata and Ryotsu, on the east coast of the island, or from Naotsu (south-west of Niigata) to Ogi (south-west of the island).
	www.jref.com /practical/sado-ga-shima_island.shtml (350 words)

	Biodiversity Hotspots - Japan - Unique and Threated Biodiversity
		Perhaps not surprisingly then, the plant genera that are considered characteristic of the Japanese flora are rather poorly represented on nearby Taiwan, with Japan’s flora having come mostly from east-central China, Korea, and the islands and mainland to the north, whereas Taiwan’s came from the Philippines and southeastern China.
		Found in the Yanbaru Forest in the northern quarter of Okinawa Island, the Okinawa woodpecker was close to extinction in the 1930s, but has recovered to a population of about 146 to 584 birds.
		Sado Island, an island less than 1,000 km² off western Honshu, has two endemic mammals, the Sado shrew (Sorex sadonis, CR) and the Sado mole (Mogera tokudae, EN).
	www.conservation.org /xp/Hotspots/japan/biodiversity.xml (1051 words)

	Species info - HTML
		Small breeding populations persisted well into the twentieth century on Sado island (Niigita prefecture), the Noto peninsula (Ishikawa prefecture) and possibly on the Oki islands (Shimane prefecture), but the last wild birds were taken into captivity on Sado island in 1981, and it is extinct in the wild in Japan.
		Tsushima island, October 1959, presumably a migrant from peninsular Korea (Takashima 1960 in Brazil 1991); Iki island, undated (OSJ 1974 in Brazil 1991).
		Japan A Non-Hunting Area was established on Sado island in 1955, and a Crested Ibis Conservation Centre was established at Niibo village on the island in 1966 (Yamashina and Nakanishi 1983).
	www.rdb.or.id /view_html.php?id=140&op=nippnipp (6209 words)

	JNTO Website \| Find a Location \| Niigata \| Sado-ga-shima Island
		Sado-ga-shima Island is located 45 km west of Niigata, in the northern part of the Chubu region.
		On the island, the aristocratic culture had flourished since the 8th century, because people who had lost due to political rivalry or who were oppressed for their political ideas and activities were exiled here by the government.
		Sado-ga-shima Island has many exhibitions, such as the Sado-kinzan (gold mine) that shows the reproduction of gold mining in the 17th century and 18th century with miniatures and electric-powered dolls.
	www.jnto.go.jp /eng/location/regional/niigata/sadogasima.html (342 words)

	USS OAKLAND HISTORY 1944
		Invasion of the Marshall Islands continues as Marines land on Roi and Namur Islands, and Army troops land on Kwajalein Island under cover of heavy naval gunfire from battleships, cruisers and destroyers.
		1 and 150, by carrier-based aircraft, Palau Islands, Caroline Islands.
		Islands, bombard and bomb Japanese positions on Taro, Maloelap Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
	www.rtcol.com /~weshortz/history/hist44.htm (11627 words)

	Simultaneous measurements of particulate elemental carbon on the ground observation network over the western North ...
		The mean concentrations of particulate EC in the four islands during this period ranged from 0.18 to 0.60 μg m
		It is interesting to note that the temporal variations in the concentrations of particulate EC in Rishiri and Sado, which are located in the northern region of Japan (35°N–45°N), synchronized with each other.
		These results demonstrate that the transport patterns of the polluted air masses from the east Asian continent to the northern regions of the northwestern Pacific are often different from those to the southern regions.
	www.agu.org /pubs/crossref/2003/2002JD002744.shtml (360 words)

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		I'm based in Hamochi, which is a small town on the southern tip of the island (next to Ogi).
		Sado has a natural beauty (in abundance) that is particularly difficult to find in a lot of places on the main islands.
		The previous RA for Sado said that Sado is "not rural.
	www.pref.niigata.jp /seisaku/kokusai/cir/jet/guide_ra_Sado.html (692 words)

	Anglican Communion News Service (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Brother Nathaniel Sado the first brother to be killed was in a separate grave, his remains revealed signs of torture and that he had died from injuries sustained over several days.
		The effect of these brutal deaths has rippled outwards and as each family arrived from their home islands carrying so much grief it was difficult to believe that we would ever be able to adequately respond to the enormity of the loss.
		The Governor General, the Prime-Minister, Ministers, the PNG High Commission and hundreds of others were there as the Archbishop and Father of the Brotherhood officiated; but the whole of Brother Robin's life was reflected.
	www.anglicancommunion.org /acns/articles/36/50/acns3667.html (1539 words)

	Amami Islands Map (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Amami-Oshima is the largest of the Amami Islands group (also known as Amami Gunto), with an area of about 276 square miles, making it the third largest of Japan's offshore islands after Okinawa and Sado Island (off the coast of Niigata).
		Eight of the islands are populated, with a total of 132,315 people living on them, according to 2000 figures.
		The spelling of the island determines the correct ending.
	rfbolland.com /okislugs/m_amami.html (94 words)

	Solomons' PM embroiled in deaths of captured missionaries - smh.com.au
		Keke, who has been accused of running the violence on the islands, claimed that Sado was sent to spy on him.
		Last week, Keke told the head of the intervention force in the islands, Nick Warner, the missionaries were dead.
		The islands' main newspaper, Solomon Star, published on open letter from a major figure in the Melanesian Anglican Church calling for a thorough inquiry into the missionaries' deaths.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/08/13/1060588463550.html (401 words)

	A Northern Soul 2005 - Day-by-Day Itinerary
		Sado ga Shima (Sado Island) is an incredible place.
		The sixth biggest of Japan's islands, Sado was used as the place of harshest exile for opponents of the ruling dynasties.
		Although the characterizations of the various little islands as tortoises, whales and human profiles may be stretching things a little, this is a beautiful area and the boat trip around the bay is well worthwhile.
	www.insidejapantours.com /2005/northern_itinerary2.shtml (2108 words)

	Zegrahm Expeditions - Reports From The Field:Treasures of Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The largest of Japan’s outer islands, Sado is home to the famed troupe of taiko earth drummers known as Kodo.
		In medieval times, however, the island was an infamous place of exile where many political prisoners were banished.
		Sado was once famous for gold mining, and we had the chance to enter the depths of the Sado Kinzan Gold Mine, the last of the island’s remaining mines.
	www.zeco.com /travel-reports/dayreports.asp?id=59&itid=651 (638 words)

	Outdoor Japan - Scuba Diving - Scuba Diving in Japan - Introduction - Diving in Japan - Certification - Snorkeling - ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Japan is an island nation sandwiched between the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Sea of Japan to the east.
		The islands provide a great escape from the city and good place to enjoy a weekend of diving and relaxation that can be done in a weekend.
		Because the islands are further from Tokyo and the mainland, the visibility is usually better and the water warmer.
	www.outdoorjapan.com /activities/scuba/scuba-diving-introduction.html (509 words)

	Metanexus Institute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		However, the islands continued to be the center of scientific debate well into the late 20th century, attracting the attentions of such figures as Louis Agassiz, Richard Owen, David Starr Jordan, Henry Fairfield Osborn, David Lack, Ernst Mayr and Julian Huxley.
		Before Europeans came with their tall ship, few plants and land animals could reach this oceanic island chain, which erupted from the sea over the past ten million years, and fewer still could endure its arid climate and volcanic terrain.
		He could not resolve what caused the evolution of so many species from one ancestral type because neither the environment nor isolation seemed to operate as factors: perhaps it was simply extreme variability in the family or rampant hybridization unchecked by natural selection.
	www.metanexus.net /metanexus_online/printer_friendly.asp?ID=4225 (3878 words)

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	personal.lig.bellsouth.net /w/d/wd8mgq/newiotas (2254 words)

	Honolulu Star-Bulletin Local News
		Roman Sado sees three ways to make a living in his home islands of Pohnpei: fishing, farming, or working for the government.
		But now that these Western Pacific islands must wean themselves from U.S. funding, scheduled to run out in three years, it may become much easier to hook a fish than a government job.
		The islands were once part of a U.N. trust territory placed under the United States after World War II, and they lie in the vast Western Pacific area north of the equator called Micronesia.
	starbulletin.com /98/06/05/news/story4.html (801 words)

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	www.asjradio.org /bondage.html (4637 words)

	Mission and Evangelism: Stories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		It was the seed of these martyrs which has helped to Christianise the whole of the Solomon Islands, the only Anglican dominated nation in the whole of the small nations in the Pacific Ocean.
		Br Sado was a frequent visitor to Harold Keke both during and after the tension.
		He was the chief Island’s negotiator between Harold Keke, the Church and the Government.
	www.anglicancommunion.org /mission/resources/stories/melanesia.cfm (1304 words)

	Hainan Island
		Major camp was Hasho, [Basuo] on the west coast of the island.
		The guards were very cruel and beat the chaps with iron bars, pieces of thick timber, rifles and many had to be carried back to camp by their mates.
		Ambon Island - Story of the atrocities committed on Ambon and Sado Islands by the Japanese in a post-war interview.
	www.mansell.com /pow_resources/hainan.html (560 words)

	Zegrahm Expeditions - Reports From The Field:Treasures of Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In former days this tropical island chain belonged to the vast Ryukyu Kingdom, and still today the spirit and distinctive culture of the warm island people here shines through, in their dialect, their smiles, extraordinary arts, music, and fine cuisine.
		Back in the island capital of Naha we explored the wares in the shops along the city’s famed pottery street, known locally as “Tsuboya” (tsubo, meaning “pot,” and ya, meaning “shop.”) More local yachimum wares were found on display at the local Pottery Museum.
		At the Peace Memorial Museum, at the south end of the island, views of the war from the eyes of the Okinawan people were made clear.
	www.zeco.com /travel-reports/dayreports.asp?id=59&itid=651 (530 words)

	A Northern Soul - Day-by-Day Itinerary
		The sixth biggest of Japan's islands, Sado was used as the place of harshest exile for opponenets of the ruling dynasties.
		In the afternoon we will do some touring of the island in the hotel minibus and this will include the breathtaking skyline road as well as the fascinating gold mine which in its day was one of the most productive in the World.
		In the evening we may have the chance to catch a Noh play, something for which the island is renowned.
	www.insidejapantours.com /northern_itinerary2.shtml (2320 words)

	acns3583 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The lives of Brother Robin Lindsay and his companions - the seven Melanesian Brothers murdered in the Solomon Islands - were remembered in a Mass of Requiem and Thanksgiving yesterday at St Philip's Church in Earls Court, London.
		Between May and August, during all the time of prayer and fasting, it was believed that the brothers were being held hostage but were alive and well.
		Its main purpose was evangelistic, to take and live the Gospel in the most remote islands and villages throughout the Solomon Islands, among people who had not heard the message of Christ.
	www.anglicancommunion.org /acns/articles/35/75/acns3583.html (444 words)

	USS Oakland CL-95 History 1944
		Kwajalein and Majuro Atolls in the Marshall Islands.
		Rota, and Pagan Islands in the Marianas Islands.
		Jima in the Volcano Islands, and Chichi Jima and Haha Jima, Bonin Islands.
	www.rtcol.com /~oakland/hist44.html (7833 words)

	ROUGH GUIDES
		Only in the southern islands of Okinawa is singing and dancing as much an integral part of daily life as eating or sleeping.
		Amagoi Bushi is a traditional folk tune of Yonaguni island, the western most island of Japan, where she once worked in a sugar factory.
		Asadoya Yunta originated on the island of Taketomi, the most unspoilt of all Okinawan islands, where time seems perpetually frozen and the means of transport is still water buffalo drawn cart.
	www.farsidemusic.com /RG_Japan.html (3326 words)

	Cheap flights to Japan with consolidators airfare
		Japan or Nippon, meaning in Japanese the Land of the Rising Sun comprises more than 6,800 islands.
		The largest and main islands are, Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku and Kyushu.
		Sado, the traditional Japanese tea ceremony is still very popular in Japan as an artistic ceremony and a way to learn manners, many hotels have a special tea Sado room for guests to enjoy a real tea ceremony.
	www.thaipro.com /flights/cheap-japan-flights.htm (807 words)

	Ohio/Penn DX Bulletin No. 420, August 2, 1999
		Sado, 9A2OP, reports that a team of operators (Kreso/9A7K leader, Sado/9A2OP and 4 others) will activate these Croatian islands located in the Adriatic Sea, September 1-6th (possibly 2 extra days).
		Ile Bizard is an island in the suburbs of Montreal and does not count for IOTA, but is PQ027 for the Canadian Islands Award.
		Following their very highly successful DXpeditions to Campbell Island in January 1999, Chatham Island in October 1997, and Raoul Island, Kermadec Island Group in May 1996, the Kermadec DX Association is planning a further Dxpedition to the Tokelau Islands in July/August 2002.
	www.ng3k.com /Ohpadx/ohpa420.html (1655 words)

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