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	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Tanegashima (Japanese: ç¨®åå³¶) is an island lying to the south of KyÅ«shÅ«, south Japan, and is part of the Kagoshima Prefecture.
		The island is the second largest of the Osumi Islands.
		This island is celebrated as the place where Mendes Pinto landed when he found his way to Japan in 1543.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Tanegashima_Island (217 words)

	Tanegashima - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tanegashima (Japanese: 種子島) is an island lying to the south of Kyushu, south Japan, and is part of the Kagoshima Prefecture.
		This island is celebrated as the place where Mendes Pinto landed when he found his way to Japan in 1543.
		The headquarters of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, the spaceport Tanegashima Space Center is located at the southeastern end of the island.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tanegashima_Island (217 words)

	Tanegashima
		Tanegashima is an island lying to the south of Kyushu, Japan.
		It is a long low stretch of land, carefully cultivated, and celebrated as the place where Mendez Pinto[?] landed when he found his way to Japan in 1543.
		The headquarters of NASDA (National Space Development Agency), Tanegashima Space Center[?] is located on here.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ta/Tanega-shima.html (105 words)

	Encyclopedia: Cape Breton Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The island is located east-northeast of the mainland with its northern and western coasts fronting on the Gulf of St. Lawrence, its western coast also forming the eastern limits of the Northumberland Strait.
		Boularderie Island (pronounced boo-lahr-duh-ree or boo-lahr-dree) is an island separating the Cabot Strait from Bras dOr Lake on the eastern coast of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia.
		Port Hawkesburty, on Cape Breton Island Port Hawkesbury (2001 population 3,701) is a town located on the southwestern end of Cape Breton Island, on the north shore of the Strait of Canso, in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Cape-Breton-Island (7748 words)

	Isolated Islands Area\|View Kyushu from Area \| Kyushu Tourism Information [ Japan ]
		Tanegashima Island is famous as the place where firearms were first introduced in Japan.
		The Amami Islands are a treasure trove of rare wildlife in a subtropical climate.
		Located approximately 50 kilometers from South Korea, Tsushima Island was historically the gateway to Japan for the arrival of culture from the Continent.
	www.welcomekyushu.com /area/rito.html (314 words)

	Tanegashima - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Tanegashima (種子島) is an island lying to the south of Kyushu, south Japan, and is part of the Kagoshima Prefecture.
		In fact, Pinto was not probably present in the first portuguese contact with the japanese, altough he did in fact visited Tanegashima soon after, and legend says he did married a local women and had a son.
		The Namban had arrived to trade, not only guns, but also soap, tobacco and other goods unknow in medieval Japan, for the excelent japanese manufactures sold for a good price in Europe.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Tanegashima_Island (236 words)

	Island In the Stream I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In the mid-1500's as one of the Portuguese ships was en route to Tanegashima, an island of southern Japan, it discovered Taiwan and gave it the name "Ihla Formosa--the beautiful island." Formosa would be the name the island would maintain in the western world until mid 20th Century.
		During the Dutch rule of the island, there were revolts from the aborigines and Chinese, but the Dutch were able to employ a policy of divide and conquer.
		The aborigines begrudgingly shared the island with all as long as the aliens did not encroach too much more on their territory.
	www.formosa.org /~taiwanpg/island/smc1.html (3569 words)

	CULTURE, FISH SHAPE TANEGASHIMA OPERATIONS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		TANEGASHIMA ISLAND, Japan - While Japanese government, media and industry officials watched the H-2 rocket lift off from a viewing stand 3 kilometers (2 miles) away, a select group of people had an even better view of the Feb. 4 launch.
		Sickle-shaped Tanegashima Island is one of the most remote areas of the country, located less than 100 miles off the coast of the major southern island of Kyushu.
		Tanegashima Island also has numerous Shinto shrines, devoted to various aspects of the native Japanese religion.
	dev.space.com /spacenews/archive94/sn93-94.fff185.html (896 words)

	NWHI : Research : NOWRAMP 2002 : Features
		There were nearly twenty of us on island that day, each traversing the same stretch of beach (not to mention the two Fish and Wildlife Service staff permanently stationed there for months at a time).
		Tanegashima is famous in Japan for being the port through which guns were first imported, resulting in a variety of cultural and societal changes.
		The stop at Tanegashima Island obviously also focused on marine biology as well as providing time for the students to relax and enjoy themselves.
	www.hawaiianatolls.org /research/NOWRAMP2002/features/message.php (1052 words)

	Street Corner in Kaminaka, Tanegashima, Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Kaminaka is the smallest of the three towns on the island.
		Tanegashima's location as Japan's southern most island of reasonable size has more than once affected life on the island.
		Tanegashima was once a destination for vacationing Japanese, but due to modern Japan's more affluent lifestyle, the tourists bypass Tanegashima now, in favor of other islands further south, such as Okinawa, that are that are both warmer and more exotic.
	members.aol.com /dcurtin2/gallery/kaminaka.htm (372 words)

	JNTO Website > Regional Tourist Guides (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Tane-ga-shima Island, lying on the sea to the south of the Osumi-hanto Peninsula in the southern part of Kagoshima, is the island where guns were introduced to Japan for the first time in the 16th century.
		It is known as an island where the largest space base in Japan is situated, from which satellites and rockets are launched.
		The island is in a long and narrow shape, being 57.5 kilometers from north to south, and 5-12 kilometers from east to west.
	www.jnto.go.jp /eng/RTG/RI/kyushu/kagoshima/tanegashima/tanegashima.html (329 words)

	JapanCorner - The Benihana Guide to Japan
		The island of Tanegashima, located almost 50 miles south of Kagoshima, was where fire arms were first introduced to Japan in 1543.
		Tanegashima is home to Japan’s premier space exploration launch facility – the Tanegashima Space Center.
		It lies 37 miles south of Kagoshima, Kyushu's southernmost prefecture, and is one in a chain of hundreds of islands which stretch to the south for nearly 600 miles to Okinawa.
	www.japancorner.com /kagoshima.asp (795 words)

	SLR Final Facility (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Tanegashima is an island lying off the south coast of Kyushu island.
		Tanegashima is relatively flat with its highest peak at 282m.
		Tanegashima is warm and has a temperate oceanic type of climate.
	god.tksc.nasda.go.jp /slrsub/facility.html (234 words)

	Tanegashima Island observed by the AVNIR-2 aboard the ALOS.
		Tanegashima Island observed by the AVNIR-2 aboard the ALOS.
		Fig.1: Tanegashima Island in Kagoshima Prefecture observed by the AVNIR-2 aboard the ALOS.
		The diagram is image data on Tanegashima Island in Kagoshima Prefecture observed by the Advanced Visible and Near Infrared Radiometer type-2 (AVNIR-2) onboard the Advanced Land Observing Satellite "Daichi" during the day time (around 10:50 a.m.) on February 17, 2006 (JST).
	www.eorc.jaxa.jp /ALOS/img_up/av2_060217_1.htm (228 words)

	LancasterOnline.com: Mystery Man Has Japanese Island Abuzz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Now recovering on the tiny island of Tanegashima, off Japan's southern coast, the mystery man has refused to speak to authorities since his rescue Sept. 2.
		The duffel bag floated away, and local officials say all they have to go on is the fact that he's Asian, wore a tank-top with a Korean label, and fell, jumped or was pushed into the water with his shoes on.
		North Korean spies are known to have infiltrated Japanese waters, and in the late 1970s and 80s even kidnapped at least a dozen Japanese citizens and whisked them off to North Korea to teach their agents the Japanese language and culture.
	ap.lancasteronline.com /6/japan_mystery_man (476 words)

	Spaceflight Now \| H-2A Launch Report \| Mission Status Center
		Workers at Japan's Tanegashima space launch complex are busy readying an H-2A rocket for the program's fourth launch with an environmental satellite wrapped inside the nose cone.
		The H-2A rocket is scheduled to depart the planet from Tanegashima Island's Yoshinobu launch complex at 0131 GMT Saturday (8:31 p.m.
		The H-2A launcher components arrived via barge on Tanegashima Island November 2, followed the next day by the unpacking and hoisting of the first stage.
	www.spaceflightnow.com /h2a/f4/status.html (1976 words)

	"Tanegashima Space Center" -- VISIT JAXA -- (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		This is a status report on the launch preparations for the next launch from the Tanegashima Space Center.
		JAXA held a tour and ceremony at the Tanegashima Space Center (TNSC) between Oct. 5 and 7 as part of an informal acceptance of employment to the people who are scheduled to join JAXA in April 2006.
		From this point, there are fantastic views of Cape Kadokura and Yakushima Island far in the distance, as well as the H-IIA Launch Complex and the Takesaki Observation stand.
	visit.jaxa.jp /tanegashima/index_e.html (470 words)

	Municipalities of Kagoshima (Japan) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Nishinoomote is the main town of Tanegashima island, south of Kyushu.
		In 1543 the Portuguese Fernao Mendes Pinto landed on that island and was the first European to set foot on the soil of Japan.
		The outer circle symbolizes coastline of Tanegashima Island and a triangle for progress and development of the city.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/jp-46-.html (145 words)

	H-2A Rocket Parts Arrive at Tanegashima for First Launch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		TANEGASHIMA, Japan — Part of Japan’s H-2A rocket arrived at Tanegashima Island in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Thursday, for assembly ahead of the scheduled launching on Aug. 25.
		The second stage of the rocket arrived at the island around 7:30 a.m.
		The two stages will be sent to the Tanegashima Space Center, some 18 kilometers away from the port, early Friday for assembling, the space agency officials said.
	dev.space.com /spacenews/asia/rocket_071201.html (249 words)

	Space Today Online - Spacefaring Japan - Orbiting Satellites
		Nearly 100 satellites have been launched by and for Japan since the island country became the fourth nation ever to launch its own satellite to Earth orbit back in 1970.
		A test satellite known as the Laser Reflecting Equipment (LRE) was launched from the Tsukuba Space Center on Tanegashima Island by Japan's new H-2A rocket on August 29, 2001.
		The first two of four Japanese spy satellites to be sent to orbit in 2003 were launched on March 28 on an H2-A rocket from the Tanegashima Island spaceport.
	www.spacetoday.org /Japan/Japan/Satellites.html (1929 words)

	Tanegashima : The Arrival of Europe in Japan: 紀伊國屋書店BookWeb
		The year 1543 marked the beginning of a new global consciousness in Japan with the arrival of shipwrecked Portuguese merchants on Tanegashima Island in Southern Japan.
		The arrival of the Portuguese was recorded in the "Tanegashima Kafu", the "Teppoki" and the "Kunitomo Teppoki", which are here translated and presented together with European reports.
		Special attention is given to the role of Tanegashima Island and Mendes Pinto, who wrote his famous picaresque account of Japan, the "Peregrinacam".
	bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp /htmy/8791114128.html (158 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		KAGOSHIMA (Kyodo) The remains of a settlement believed to be the oldest in Japan have been found on Tanegashima Island in Kagoshima Prefecture, undermining the established theory that Paleolithic age dwellers were migrant hunters, according to the local education board.
		Up until about 15,000 years ago, Tanegashima Island was connected with Kyushu.
		points to the remains of a cooking hearth in the Tachikiri Ruins on Tanegashima Island, Kagoshima Prefecture.
	www.trussel.com /prehist/news43.htm (323 words)

	UNESCO in the Mountains of the World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Located in the interior of Yaku Island, at the meeting point of the palearctic and oriental biotic regions, Yakushima exhibits a very rich flora, with some 1,900 species and subspecies recorded, including ancient specimens of the sugi (Japanese cedar).
		The fauna of the island is diverse, with sixteen mammal species.
		A further four sub-species are endemic to both Yaku Island and the neighbouring island of Tanegashima, including Apodemus speciosus dorsalis.
	valhalla.unep-wcmc.org /unesco/sites/3034.htm (269 words)

	Guardian \| Launch of Japanese satellite fuels friction with North Korea
		A glistening, fl-and-orange rocket carrying Japan's first spy satellites was moved to its launch pad for a final countdown on a remote island yesterday, amid tight security.
		It was the test of a North Korean Taepodong missile - which flew over Japan's main island and crashed in the Pacific four years ago - which prompted Tokyo to establish its £1.3bn spy satellite programme.
		With the initial go-ahead issued yesterday, despite poor weather, the 57-metre (170ft) H2-A rocket was hauled on to the launch pad ready to lift the satellites into orbit.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4635192-104490,00.html (333 words)

	H-llA LAUNCH SERVICES VEHICLES
		TNSC is located on the beautiful coastline of Tanegashima Island, Kagoshima Prefecture, which is southwest part of Japan.
		This space center was built in 1966 as the most large and important space related facilities in Japan.
		Access to Tanegashima Island is by airplanes or by ships.
	www.h2a.jp /launch_site/a.html (111 words)

	Tanegashima Space Center Space Museum Opens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		With more variety inspired in the exhibits, the Hall was renamed "Tanegashima Space Museum" and officially opened on March 26, 1997.
		The Tanegashima Space Museum now presents a much more diversified exhibition, particularly in the fields of the Earth observation, utilization of the space environment, and lunar and planetary exploration.
		The major highlight is the full-scale model of the JEM, which is displayed on the second floor with its structure rising aloft toward the upper stairwell.
	www.nasda.go.jp /lib/nasda-news/1997/04/museum_e.html (237 words)

	Outdoor Japan - Column - Surf Japan - Island Getaways - Tanegashima - Amami Oshima - Okinawa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Such a momentous historical occasion is of course well documented: there is a museum (Tanegashima Kaihatsu Sogo Center) in the north exhibiting the first gun made in Japan, and a festival in summer which showcases the firing of a matchlock gun.
		This island in stark contrast to Tanegashima is lush and mountainous.
		Located between Tanegashima and Okinawa, the Amami Shoto group of islands has a language of its own according to some linguist’s writings I stumbled upon in my search for data.
	www.outdoorjapan.com /columns/surfjapan-11.html (1392 words)

	Australia's FedSat Slated For Next H2A
		It operates from the new Yoshinobu Launch Range at Tanegashima Space Centre, on the island of Tanegashima approximately 900 km southwest of Tokyo.
		The third flight of the H-IIA was carried out successfully from Tanegashima on 10 September, carrying two payloads into geostationary orbit.
		A recent bilateral agreement between Australia and Russia on technology safeguards for the Christmas Island spaceport project, to be run by the Asia Pacific Space Centre, has moved a step closer after three days of talks in Moscow.
	www.spacedaily.com /news/aust-02d.html (767 words)

	RedOrbit - Space - Japan May Build Launch Pad Overseas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Japan's current space center, on the southern island of Tanegashima, lags behind sites used by U.S. and European space agencies because its launching period is limited by local fishing seasons and the center's small capacity, the panel said, according to Kyodo.
		Tanegashima's small airport also means that rocket components must be shipped to the island, instead of flown, increasing transportation costs and the time required to stage a launch, Kyodo said.
		Tokyo already has a tracking station on Christmas Island to trace its rocket shots from Tanegashima and has conducted aircraft tests in the region.
	www.rednova.com /news/display/?id=234588&source=r_space (273 words)

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