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	Yakushima - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Yakushima (屋久島) is one of the islands of Japan.
		It lies to the south of Kyushu and is part of the Kagoshima Prefecture, and the Vincennes Strait (Yakushima Kaikyō) separates it from Tanegashima.
		Yakushima's electricity is produced in a hydroelectric plant, and surplus power has been used to produce hydrogen gas.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yakushima (222 words)

	JapanCorner - The Benihana Guide to Japan
		Yakushima is known for its aesthetic beauty and unusually diverse ecosystems.
		Plant life indigenous to diverse climates can be seen from Yakushima’s verdant coastline to the tops of its statuesque mountains including subtropical trees like the banyan; warm-temperate zone trees like the live oak and sweet acorn; temperate zone trees like the fir; and sub-alpine plants like the native Yakushima bamboo (yakuzasa) and rhododendron.
		Yakushima is also home to the Yakushimazaru or ‘Yakushima monkey’ which still exist in the wild as they have for thousands of years.
	www.japancorner.com /yakushima.asp (249 words)

	Yakushima, Japan -- ThingsAsian Article
		"Yakushima is facing a second and possibly its worst-ever crisis," Shiba said in an interview with AFP.
		As many as 500 people a day climb the mountain to see the cedar, queuing in a steep and narrow pass where roots protrude from topsoil worn away by thousands of climbers' boots and the bark of trees is rubbed away by hands.
		Another visitor said Yakushima was one of the few places in densely populated Japan still untouched by development.
	www.thingsasian.com /goto_article/article.2882.html (1013 words)

	EyeforFuelCells - Facilitating the commercialisation of Fuel Cell technology
		Yakushima has embarked on an experimental project to use hydrogen as the sole energy source for the island's 14,000 people.
		Yakushima Denko Co., a Tokyo-based power firm affiliated with Taiheiyo Cement Co., is playing a key role in the Yakushima initiative.
		Yakushima and Iceland are both utilizing their natural resources as the energy source to establish hydrogen-based societies.
	www.eyeforfuelcells.com /ReportDisplay.asp?ReportID=1677 (749 words)

	Yakushima - Wikitravel
		Yakushima is an island about half-way between Kyushu and Okinawa in Japan.
		Though not too well-known outside Japan, Yakushima is a popular destination for Japanese tourists, hence the infrastructure (hotels, restaurants, transportation) is good.
		Yakushima is a small volcanic island that rises nearly 2000m above sea level.
	wikitravel.org /en/Yakushima (490 words)

	The Manila Times Internet Edition \| OPINION > Saved from the saw, ancient Japanese forests now threatened by tourism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		YAKUSHIMA, Japan—A generation ago, a battle was successfully waged on this rugged island to preserve what was left of its primeval forests, home to giant trees millennia old.
		“Yakushima is facing a second and possibly its worst-ever crisis,” Shiba said in an interview with Agence France-Presse.
		Shiba, who took over as head of the Yakushima Tourism Association in June, said visits to the mountains must be limited to avoid irreparable damage.
	www.manilatimes.net /national/2004/aug/19/yehey/opinion/20040819opi6.html (1125 words)

	Profile of Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata)
		Yakushima island (30º 30fN) is the southern limit of the habitat of JM, which has wide range of vegetation, including subtropical and temperate plants and broad-leaved evergreen forests (Masui, 1988).
		The population density of macaques in Yakushima is higher than in the other habitats in Japan (Takasaki, 1981 as cited in Agetsuma, 1995a).
		Agetsuma (1995b) found out Yakushima JM spent more time searching for high energy foods (such as fruit, seeds, insects, and fungi) than low energy foods (such as fallen seeds, leaves, young leaves, and flowers) because they might be aware that although high energy foods are difficult to find they give more energy.
	www.geocities.com /Tokyo/Bay/9166/jmprof.htm (4096 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Science/Nature \| Driving the car of the future
		There are few landscapes more dramatic than Yakushima, and few places with more weather; within seconds we were being pelted by our 12th rainstorm of the day.
		The people of Yakushima have now got used to seeing the little blue car swishing silently around their island.
		The technology is still too expensive for mass-production, but Honda has loaned other prototypes to city governments and individuals in the United States, in the hope that one day, they may be the first to produce a truly affordable fuel-cell car.
	news.bbc.co.uk /go/rss/-/1/hi/sci/tech/4686826.stm (643 words)

	Yakushima: Day1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The sun was out and actually warmed me (a first this year in Japan!) as I crossed the tarmac from the Kagoshima terminal to the little turbo-prop and climbed the ladder to Yakushima.
		Yakushima is a roughly circular island about 24 km's in diameter.
		Yakushima is one of the WETTEST places in Japan.
	www.csse.monash.edu.au /~aland/JAPAN/yakushima1.html (2021 words)

	Trip to Yakushima Island - UNESCO World Heritage Site and Pride of Japan!
		Yakushima turned out to be a great choice, as the subtropical island is completely different from any island in Norway.
		Yakushima does not have any gigantic waterfalls with regard to water volume or height, but just seeing an waterfall that has not been dammed is a rare experience in Japan.
		Yakushima is most famous for its gigantic cedar trees, some of which are believed to be more than 1,000 years old.
	www.janhoo.com /2004/yakushima (305 words)

	The Manila Times Internet Edition \| OPINION > Japan island seeks to be emission-free (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		YAKUSHIMA, Japan—At first sight, the use of an island famed as an ecological gem as a test-track by a major carmaker may seem like environmental heresy.
		But researchers on Yakushima are pursuing an ambitious dream of achieving zero greenhouse gas emissions.
		“Theoretically Yakushima is able to achieve zero CO2 emission, but there are a lot of hurdles to clear,” said Tadahiro Mitsuhashi, professor of environmental studies at Chiba University of Commerce.
	www.manilatimes.net /national/2004/sept/05/yehey/opinion/20040905opi5.html (1503 words)

	Protected Areas Programme - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The centre of Yakushima Island, and parts of the island's southern and western coastal lowlands were internationally recognised as a Biosphere Reserve under UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere Programme in 1980.
		Yakushima was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1993.
		This has largely been removed, due to high human population pressure, and the warm temperate forest trees in Yakushima are thus some of the few remaining in Japan.
	www.unep-wcmc.org /protected_areas/data/wh/yaku.html (1256 words)

	Yakushima (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Two other foreign 'regulars' on the show, Jeremy and Pete, and I accompanied Funakoshi Eiichiro- a star of suspense thrillers in the 1980s we were told, although I have never seen any of his movies- to Yakushima.
		Yakushima is a small island off the tip of southern Kyushu and is famed for being one of Japan's UNESCO nature preservation sites.
		The island is organized into zones based on the amount of human encroachment and the strictness of environmental regulations.
	nathaniel.typepad.com /photos/yakushima (206 words)

	Clean Edge - The Clean-Tech Market Authority - News
		He is leaving Taiheiyo Cement Co. to start a new career on Yakushima Island, south of Kyushu, Japan, a place designated by the U.N. as a world heritage nature preserve.
		In Yakushima's case, though, there is a huge surplus of electric power that can't be stored or exported to the mainland; creating hydrogen and forcing it into tanks at 350 times atmospheric pressure makes economic sense.
		By 2008 the price should be somewhat lower--and many Yakushima residents, subsidized by the government, are likely to be driving them.
	www.cleanedge.com /story.php?nID=1914 (1335 words)

	JapanCorner - The Benihana Guide to Japan
		Minami Satsuma-no-jugo-ya Gyoji (September 22) is a festival which celebrates the viewing of the harvest moon in September, an age-old tradition in Japan.
		Most famous are Tanegashima, now home to the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, and Yakushima - one of Japan's natural treasures.
		Like most of Japan, Kagoshima is blessed with both mountains and the sea, however, because of its southern latitude, it also enjoys a temperate climate to the north and a subtropical climate on its islands to the south.
	www.japancorner.com /kagoshima.asp (795 words)

	Celebrazio: Yakushima, Japan Adventure
		One hour south of Kagoshima by jetfoil Is Yakushima, home to Kyushu's highest mountain, Mt. Miyanoura, and many other peaks.
		Yakushima became the first place in Japan to be designated a World Natural Heritage Site.
		Yakushima has been gaining popularity as an eco-tourist spot, where people can learn about the island's precious environment at cultural and environmental centers.
	www.celebrazio.net /travel/adventure/yakushima.html (670 words)

	Yakushima White Pine: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Yakushima White Pine: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic
		The Yakushima White Pine (Pinus amamiana) is a native of southern Japan Japan quick summary:
		An island is any piece of land smaller than a continent and larger than a rock, that is completely surrounded by water....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/Y/Ya/Yakushima_White_Pine.htm (609 words)

	R&T - Tech Tidbits — February 2003 (2/2003)
		Yakushima, off the southern tip of Kyushu, gets an annual precipitation of 315 in.
		Yakushima's rainfall translates into lots of ground water that can be exploited in hydroelectric power.
		Yakushima Denko Co. is at the forefront of all this development.
	www.roadandtrack.com /article.asp?section_id=17&article_id=445 (693 words)

	Mizukoshi@Yaku island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Yakushima Island is located 70 kilometers south of Sata Point, the southern tip of Kyushu.
		Yakushima Island has an annual rainfall of 4,000 millimeters on the coast and more than 8,000 millimeters in the mountains.
		In 1993, UNESCO listed Yakushima Island as a World Heritage site in accordance with the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and National Heritage.
	parallel.park.org /Japan/Theme/sjapan/interview/mizukoshi (316 words)

	Yakushima Island, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan
		The visit to the three centers took us on a short walk around some woodland (it's hard to escape woodland on Yakushima), where they were monitoring the development of trees in tended and untended plots.
		Although the weather was very foggy we had yet to see any of the rain that Yakushima is so famous for; a Japanese poet wrote that it rains 35 days a month on the island.
		Our last day on Yakushima and only half of one at that so we decided to set off bright and early in order to get a walk in before we left.
	www.davidbarber.org /japan/aprilmay2001/yakushima (1877 words)

	Japan's Yakushima island pursues dream of emission-free zone
		At first sight, the use of an island famed as an ecological gem as a test-track by a major carmaker may seem like environmental heresy.
		For Japan, a leader in the fight against global warming under the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, a reduction in greenhouse gas is an urgent priority as it spewed out a record amount of CO2 in the year to March 2003.
		"We regard the Yakushima project as an ideal model in the bid to realise a recycling society," said an environment ministry official who declined to be identified.
	www.terradaily.com /2004/040903015003.p4hnsmyn.html (922 words)

	David Hill's Research Web Page
		To minimise the risk of extinction of forest animals it is essential to know what their requirements are.
		As well as studying relatively undisturbed areas of forest, we are also investigating the distribution and ecology of mammals in secondary forest and conifer plantations.
		Yakushima is a mountainous island of about 500 sq km in the south of Japan.
	www.lifesci.sussex.ac.uk /home/David_Hill/index1.htm (452 words)

	Fuel Cell Today - Best mixing of hydrogen and electricity in Yakushima island - A basic study for future sustainable ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Description: Yakushima island, one of the World Heritage sites, is located in the southern part of Japan.
		From a previous feasibility study, it was found that the renewable energy sources can meet the current consumption of fossil fuels in Yakushima.
		In order to propose a practical vision for the replacement of fossil fuels, supply forms of the renewable energy sources (hydrogen and electricity) and available devices (hydrogen-driven and electric-driven) are discussed here.
	www.fuelcelltoday.com /FuelCellToday/IndustryInformation/IndustryInformationExternal/IndustryInformationDisplayArticle/0,1588,990,00.html (218 words)

	Yakushima: Day2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		On Yakushima, every pebble and every boulder, every twig and every trunk, every frond of moss or tropical leaf, every muddy clod, patch of snow, whiff of damp air, everything, is just so....
		To visit is to discard or discount any religion which does not grant the trees and rocks a soul.
		Aristotle, the first to recognize the life-force of plants, must surely have visited Yakushima in his dreams.
	www.csse.monash.edu.au /~aland/JAPAN/yakushima2.html (2237 words)

	Yakushima online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Yakushima is a place that has to be seen to be believed.
		A UNESCO protected island and part of the Kirishima- Yaku National Park, it is a circular island, 60km off Kyushu, of giant mountains covered in subtropical rainforest.
		Please write below any requests for information about Yakushima and I will e mail an answer back to you.
	members.fortunecity.com /yakushima (142 words)

	YAKUSHIMA-ISLAND
		We went there by train from Tokyo to Kagoshima (2days and a half), and Boat (for 3 hrs).
		If you've got a chance to go to YAKUSHIMA ISLAND, don't miss the beach called INAKA-HAMA.
		HAMA means beach and INAKA means "back district" in English.
	www.geocities.com /shuuhei_ikeda/YAKUSHIMA-ISLAND.html (80 words)

	Kaizoku Fansubs / Forums / The real forest of Mononoke Hime - YAKUSHIMA
		One of the main draws to Yakushima is the abundance of giant, ancient cedar(sugi or yakusugi) trees.
		There was another one very close by with a perfect cone shape, just like the kind I used to draw when I was a kid.
		There were two or three other big waterfalls in Yakushima and like a hundred or so smaller ones.
	kaizoku-fansubs.com /forum/viewtopic.php?pid=53388 (1581 words)

	Water Tour of Japan: River Waters in Yakushima Island
		Water Tour of Japan: River Waters in Yakushima Island
		Certified as World Heritage, Yakushima Island is full of virgin forest.
		The island has the highest mountain in Kyushu region, "Miyanoura-take" (1935m) at its center, which is the mother of many rivers that run through the multifaceted mountain surface.
	www.finewaters.com /Water_Wellness/Remarkable_Waters_of_Japan/River_Waters_in_Yakushima_Isl_.asp (275 words)

	Zegrahm Expeditions - Reports From The Field: Treasures of Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Just 25 kilometers in diameter and part of Kyushu’s Kirishima-Yaku National Park, this lush, verdant island is subtropical along the coast and rises to the tall, snowcapped volcanic peak of Mt. Miyanoura-dake (6,300 feet), the highest point in southern Japan and one of 40 peaks on the island over 3,200 feet.
		The World Heritage Site of Yakushima is best known for its virgin rain forests of towering Yaku-sugi (cryptomeria), many of these great cedars dating back thousands of years.
		Before heading back to the ship, we stopped off at the Yakushima Island Environmental and Cultural Center to view the nature displays and watch an amazing IMAX film about the forests of Yakushima.
	www.zeco.com /travel-reports/dayreports.asp?id=59&itid=643 (581 words)

	Yakushima Monkey [Yakushima Macaque]
		Yakushima is a small island located south of Kyusyu and well known by tourists for it's cedar forest and many natural scenic locations.
		Because monkeys in Yakushima are subspices of Japanese monkey (Macaca Fuscata or Nihonzaru),they are called Yakushimazaru or Yakuzaru.The name Yakuzaru means the monkeys of Yakushima.
		To preserve wild animals, I cann't prvide more detailed information where these pictures were taken.
	www.asahi-net.or.jp /~ud6m-kizm/N_P_I_J/Yakushima/Yakushima_macaque.htm (166 words)

	Derewiany Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The following pictures were taken on our trip to Yakushima, an island south of Kagoshima.
		Yakushima is famous for its large cedar trees, up to 7,000 years old!
		Feel free to click on a picture for a larger version.
	home.earthlink.net /~derewiany/yakushima.htm (76 words)

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