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	Tokunoshima, Kagoshima - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tokunoshima (徳之島町; -chou) is a town located in Ooshima District, Kagoshima, Japan.
		As of 2003, the town has an estimated population of 13,150 and the density of 125.39 persons per km².
		Tokunoshima is an island in southwest Japan with three towns: Tokunoshima town, Isen town, and Amagi town.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tokunoshima,_Kagoshima (200 words)

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	www.findlocalweather.com /forecast.php?icao=RJKN (466 words)

	activ_tokunoshima (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Photo Program was carried out in Isen Town of Tokunoshima, southern island of Japan, in December 2004.
		A total of 106 children, aged from 7 to 14, participated in the workshop and freely took photos.
		Their photo exhibition was held in Tokunoshima in February 2005.
	www.wondereyes.org /activity/tokunoshima/activ_tokunoshima.html (85 words)

	Battleship Yamato Memorial Tower (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		According to a sign next to the tower, 3,721 men from this Japanese task force lost their lives that day [1].
		The Battleship Yamato Memorial Tower was erected in April 1968 on Cape Inutabu, located in the southwest part of the small island of Tokunoshima.
		A sign in front of the tower gives the official name as "Memorial Tower of Special Attack Fleet with Battleship Yamato as Flagship," so the memorial honors the men killed in all ships that sunk.
	wgordon.web.wesleyan.edu /kamikaze/other/monuments/yamato (280 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Asia-Pacific \| World's oldest person turns 116
		Kamato Hongo, who lives on the island of Tokunoshima in southern Japan, slept through most of the celebrations to mark her extraordinary achievement, according to her family.
		Tokunoshima island was also home to a man who reached the age of 120 - the greatest age ever recorded - and there are now more than 20,000 people over the age of 100 in Japan.
		The reasons for their unusual longevity could be a diet rich in sea food and low in fat, or Japan's strong welfare system and family support networks.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/asia-pacific/3112100.stm (419 words)

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		The 169-seat JAS Flight 979, bound for Tokunoshima island in Amagicho from Kagoshima Airport, was filled almost to capacity.
		The two passengers hospitalized were a 21-year-old man from Isencho in the prefecture, who complained of back pain, and a 22-year-old woman from Miyakojima Ward, Osaka, who was admitted for a health check.
		Tokunoshima Airport, which has a 2,000-meter-long runway, opened in February 1962.
	www.grangier.fr /news/journal-2004-01-03.txt (2728 words)

	World's oldest person ... - Sept. 17, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		On Monday Japan celebrated Respect for the Aged Day, a public holiday, when 140 members of her family and neighbors held a party for Hongo, who slept through the gathering as she normally sleeps for two days and stays awake for two days.
		Though she uses a wheelchair and has difficulty hearing, she can move her arms enough to perform the traditional dance of her birthplace of Tokunoshima Island off Kagoshima.
		Kurauchi said Hongo is weak but not ill and occasionally enjoys "shochu" an alcoholic drink traditionally made in the Kyushu region, where she lives.
	www.inq7.net /wnw/2003/sep/17/text/wnw_7-1-p.htm (308 words)

	Newt and Salamander Discussion Forum @ Caudata.org: Echinotriton andersoni
		These are all being sold as coming from Tokunoshima Island, where they can be caught legally, in contrast with most other islands in their habitat, where they are protected.
		I've just heard that authorities in Kagoshima Prefecture (where Tokunoshima is located) are now considering enactment of legislation to prohibit collection of wildlife in the prefecture's southern islands.
		I've also heard speculation that the ones found on Tokunoshima are a different species, or at least a different subspecies, than the protected ones found further south in Okinawa Prefecture.
	www.caudata.org /forum/messages/13/2545.html (1109 words)

	Japan Times: Cops probe bad landing of JAS plane (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Tokunoshima airport remains closed, meanwhile, with the MD-81 airplane still in the middle of the 2,000-meter runway.
		Flight 979, carrying 163 passengers and six crew members from Kagoshima airport, landed at Tokunoshima shortly after 4:20 p.m.
		Thursday and tilted to the left, causing the left wing to touch the runway.
	search.japantimes.co.jp /print/news/nn01-2004/nn20040103a7.htm (150 words)

	Sumo In English: The Oldest Living Sumo .... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Ichinoya majored in physics at the University of the Ryukyus in Okinawa Prefecture, but his heart was set on becoming a wrestler.
		Sumo was one of the few sources of entertainment where he grew up, on Tokunoshima island, Kagoshima Prefecture.
		When it was time to think about higher education, Ichinoya based his decision on whether the college had a sumo club.
	jakking.typepad.com /sumoinenglish/2005/07/the_oldest_livi.html (738 words)

	Genetic differentiation within and among island populations of the endangered plant Aster miyagii (Asteraceae), an ...
		small islands, Tokunoshima Island, and Okinawajima Island (Fig.
		Tokunoshima and Okinawajima Island, although access to those
		Population codes and the number of samples are given in Fig.
	www.amjbot.org /cgi/content/full/88/12/2189 (3113 words)

	The Adjectival Adventures of Arius :: October :: 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Maybe our government will be wise and invest in drilling a pathetically small amount of oil from under caribou land, instead of blowing it on new energy research to free ourselves from the dependence on sandbox-nation oil out in the Midwest.
		You ask, “Is it not redundant to have a saltwater pool in a hotel that is located on the shore of a saltwater ocean?” I answer, “Saltwater pools do not have poisonous sea snakes or spiny urchins full of footpain poison.
		Obviously since the seas of Tokunoshima are filled with things that want to put toxins into your blood, the land had to compete somehow.
	arius.blogsome.com /2005/10/24 (704 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		According to him, the calcium carbonate content of water - a content that serves as an index of alkalinity - stands at 25.4 mg per litre of water on the national average.
		Whereas in the Tohoku (North-eastern) District of Japan the calcium carbonate content falls below this national average, in Tokunoshima Island, Kagoshima Prefecture, the CaCO3 content stands at 148 mg and in Naha City, Okinawa Prefecture, it reaches a stunning 415mg, a level demonstrative of an exceedingly high degree of alkalinity.
		A Ministry of Health and Welfare survey in 1989 says that in Nagano, a prefecture nestled among the peaks of the Japan Alps, the rate of death by cerebral apoplexy, one of the three major adult diseases, recorded a national high of 152 per 100,000 population.
	www.coralcalcium.net /researchdoc/29.doc (576 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Asia-Pacific \| 'World's oldest person' dies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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		Kamato Hongo died in hospital on Friday, one of her grandsons said.
		Mrs Hongo, who lived on the island of Tokunoshima in southern Japan, had been bed-ridden for some time.
	newsblaster.cs.columbia.edu /archives/2003-11-01-14-17-46/web/NBproxy.cgi?sentence=2670 (329 words)

	Japan Finders » Blog Archive » Tokunoshima island [1] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		My wife is from neighboring Tokunoshima island,much smaller than Amami island where we live now.There are a LOT of poisonous snakes there[HABU},and if you want to try catching one,you will get about 40 US dollars bounty for it,from the local government.
		This entry was posted on Wednesday, May 11th, 2005 at 9:11 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.
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	www.japanfinders.com /blog/?p=2 (100 words)

	The Adjectival Adventures of Arius :: October :: 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		All the other ALTs had gathered and bought their tickets, and I was still waiting for Tammy, Dan, and Amy to show up with the ticket they had bought for me. I didn’t really wait that long, and I only mentioned it cuz there was a vampire involved.
		We boarded the ferry for Tokunoshima on the biggest ship I’ve ever been on (which is not really saying anything), and we headed out.
		In the proper morning (sun had risen) I noticed the clear blue day, and went again to the deck and watched Tokunoshima get closer and closer.
	arius.blogsome.com /2005/10/13 (2152 words)

	theHoteliers \| New Otani Tokunoshima Rating
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	www.thehoteliers.com /rate.html?accom_id=39054 (72 words)

	Welcome to Live Pain Free-livepainfree.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		A British journalist from the Guinness Book of World Records was on assignment to interview Shigechiyo Izumi, the world's oldest documented living person, a sprightly 115 year old man in remarkable good health.
		When he looked at the other inhabitants, he noticed many elderly people in their 80's and 90's who were very healthy and unusually lively.
		Later, the average life span on the islands of Okinawa and Tokunoshima was determined to be 106 years without the usual problems associated with old age!
	www.livepainfree.org (615 words)

	Fear and Loathing in my Head : Deluxe Edition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Tokunoshima was beautiful and quite sunny, I did in fact get burned, which is extremely rare, in fact it's the first time I can recall being burnt (though not badly unlike some of our more fair-skinned coughbritishcough friends).
		Tokunoshima is indeed beautiful, with both beaches and rocky coastlines.
		At 9:30 I arrived back at Kagoshima after my 16 hour long ferry ride from Tokunoshima island, then hopped a train to Yokogawa, walked home from the station, and drove to work.
	www.livejournal.com /users/andrewdeluxe (2517 words)

	Luchtzak Aviation \| Forums \| Latest aviation news \| Airport reopens after Japan Air System landing gear buckled. - A ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2004 9:52 pm Post subject: Airport reopens after Japan Air System landing gear buckled.
		Tokunoshima Airport, located on a remote Kagoshima Prefecture island, reopened for business Sunday, three days after the landing gear of a Japan Air System airplane buckled while landing Thursday.
		JAS added two extra flights to its regular three Tokunoshima to Kagoshima flights to transport about 690 passengers, including those who had been stranded on the island because of the JAS accident.
	www.luchtzak.be /postt2824.html (467 words)

	Tokunoshima Airport
		Priceline offers numerous flights to and from Tokunoshima Airport.
		Priceline searches thousands of airlines and flight schedules providing you convenient flight times to and from Tokunoshima Airport.
		With priceline, flying to your favorite Tokunoshima Airport destination is a simple mouse-click away.
	airlines.priceline.com /airlines/tokunoshima-airport.html (103 words)

	The Manila Times Internet Edition \| BUSINESS > P5.6-B hospital to rise in RP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		These hospitals are located throughout Japan including the islands of Okinawa and Tokunoshima.
		tc "These hospitals are located throughout Japan including the islands of Okinawa and Tokunoshima.
		In light of its planned investment, the Japanese firm is seeking permission to allow Japanese medical personnel to work at the planned facility, Purisima said.
	www.manilatimes.net /national/2004/sept/06/yehey/business/20040906bus9.html (839 words)

	Longevity Resources
		Birth and death registration, however, became complete only in 1933 and was onl 30.9% complete by 1915.
		The greatest authenticated age to which any human has ever lived is a unique 120 years 237 days in the case of Shigechiyo Izumi of Asan, Tokunoshima Island, Japan.
		He was born on the island on June 29, 1865, and recorded as a 6-year old in Japan's first census of 1871.
	www.wisdomportal.com /Longevity/Longevity.html (609 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Nansei Islands subtropical evergreen forests (IM0170) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This ecoregion has the most outstanding animal diversity in all of Japan.
		But many animals are endangered, including the Amami rabbit, a primitive species that has inhabited only Amamioshima and Tokunoshima islands for more than a million years.
		The Iriomote cat is a rare wild feline found in the lowlands of Iriomote Island, with only about 100 individuals remaining.
	www.nationalgeographic.com /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/im/im0170.html (371 words)

	Tokunoshima (Industry)
		Other specialties include local varieties of bean, brown sugar, pickled papaya, butamiso and sea urchin.
		Information courtesy : Tokunoshima town office・Amagi town office
		In the case that there are sound data and movie data the above icon is displayed.
	inpaku-kagoshima.com /en/island/Kagoshima/Tokunoshima/Industry/001.htm (74 words)

	Guinness Book of Records 2002
		The greatest age for any man was 120 years 237 days.
		Shigechiyo Izumi of Isen on Tokunoshima, an island 820 miles (1,320 Km) Southwest of Japan, was born on June 29, 1865 and died on February 21, 1986.
		He drank Sho-chu (distilled from barley) and took up smoking at the age of 70.
	www.grg.org /Guinness2002.htm (619 words)

	Gumbies
		Only one more big crossing would take us to Amami Ooshima, the final island of our journey.
		Although this was a relatively short crossing of 25km, leaving the security of Tokunoshima’s coast was daunting.
		The waves in places were around 2 meters, caused by the north-west wind in opposition to the westward setting Kuroshio Current, which at 4km/h seemed faster here than ever.
	www.vibromama.blogspot.com (1822 words)

	Ericssons Alka-Mine Coral Calcium (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Coral Calcium is the lost secret of the world's oldest man. The secret was discovered two decades ago when Guinness Book of World Records sent a journalist to interview the world's oldest documented living man, Shigechiyo Izumi, who lived on the Japanese island Tokunoshima.
		Izumi was a sprightly 115-year old man at the time of the interview, and had retired a short 10 years earlier!
		No part of this site may be reproduced without written permission from CoralCalcium.net.
	www.coralcalcium.net /coral.html (331 words)

	Welcome to Teflcourse.net : TEFL & TESOL Certificates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Someone with a strong interest in learning Japanese will have a much better time!
		About the location - the island of Tokunoshima, part of Kagoshima prefecture.
		One of several islands stretching from the southern tip of Kyushu to Okinawa.
	www.teflcourse.net /news_and_jobs.cfm?page=desc&nid=548 (195 words)

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