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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 (218 words)

	JAL Guide to Japan - Yakushima ( World Heritage )
		Yakushima is the fifth largest island in Japan and is located in the southern part of Kagoshima Prefecture.
		On Yakushima Island, forestry utilizing the Yakusugi Cedar was a predominant local industry from the 17th century.
		It is said that people have been living on Yakushima from around 7000 years ago and the name Yakushima can often be found in Japanese history linked to events such as the visiting of a Chinese envoy in the 8th century and the landing of an Italian missionary named Sidotti in the 18th century.
	www.eg.jal.com /world/en/guidetojapan/world_heritage/yakushima/description (354 words)

	Crushing Time - Yakushima
		Yakushima is famous for flying fish so everywhere we looked in the water we could actually see flying fish moving quite quickly from under the boat to about 300 feet to the side of it as if they were celaring the way for the boat.
		Yakushima is about a 3 hour drive around the entire island.
		The last full day on the island was to be the beach and relaxation day and seeing various things as we drove the 3 hours around the island.
	www.crushingtime.com /Excursions/Yakushima.html (3139 words)

	DEGUCHI's Message Board
		Yakushima Monkey (the subspecies of Japanese Monkey) and Yaku Deer(the subspecies of Japanese Deer) are big mammals which live in the extensive forest.
		The area for research was the west district of Yakushima Island, the near of the upper stream of Segire-river, the end of Oko forest road, and it about 1000m height.
		That is to say, in Coastal forest in Yakushima Island, the shortage of food in winter is relaxed than any other region, and it keeps the high density.
	hpcgi2.nifty.com /ydeguchi/board.cgi?f=f1/S_Shimoinaba.txt (4130 words)

	Yakushima Island History Summary
		Yakushima Island is sixty kilometers south of Osumi Peninsula in Kagoshima Prefecture in southern Kyushu.
		The island is 500 square kilometers in size.
		Yakushima is characterized by a hot and humid climate and has the heaviest precipitation in Japan, with an annual rainfall of 400 centimeters in the coastal regions and 1,000 centimeters in the mountains.
	www.bookrags.com /history/worldhistory/yakushima-island-ema-06 (273 words)

	Y-CEP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Yakushima is an island of unique vegetation, thanks to a climate that blesses the land with abundant rains-4.000 to 10,000 millimeters per year.
		Yakushima Denko Co. is proud to have been involved for the past half-century in clean energy hydro power projects.
		Yakushima island, with a land area of 540 square kilometers, a population of 14,000 people, and a total of 9,500 vehicles, meets the optimal conditions and geographical characteristics for development of a hydrogen society and the building of the necessary infrastructure.
	www.yakuden.co.jp /hp/hp_english/ecreate.htm (410 words)

	JapanCorner - The Benihana Guide to Japan
		Yakushima Island is one of Japan’s most treasured natural wonders.
		Yakushima is known for its aesthetic beauty and unusually diverse ecosystems.
		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)

	Everlasting Water Cycle: Yakushima
		Yakushima was formed around 14 million years ago when granite base-rock was elevated by seismic activity.
		Yakushima is the southernmost point where wild Japanese cedars grow.
		The root of Yaku-sugi is covered in thick moss which is an indispensable part of the island ecosystem.
	portal.unesco.org /culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=31083&URL_DO=DO_PRINTPAGE&URL_SECTION=201.html (233 words)

	Mount Miyanoura, Japan \| only when it's pretty at abelard.org
		Yakushima Island is a two-hour catamaran ride away from Kagoshima port.
		Sitting on the edge of the Pacific Ocean, the island is almost perfectly circular and covered in mountains, waterfalls and Japanese cedar (sugi) forests.
		One tree on the island (called the Jomon Sugi) is estimated at 2,700 years old, although locals claim 7,000 plus years.
	www.abelard.org /news/pretty0605.php (436 words)

	Clean Edge - The Clean-Tech Market Authority - News
		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.
		He has shown a strong interest in turning the island into a giant laboratory when the switch to fuel cell vehicles begins in earnest 10 to 15 years from now, as well as in testing the safety of hydrogen gas stations, the long-term reliability of cars and the economic viability of fuel cells.
		The island is likely to be designated a special economic zone with relaxed hydrogen regulations within 2003, so that in 2004 the first hydrogen buses and cars will be running.
	www.cleanedge.com /story.php?nID=1914 (1335 words)

	Yakushima, Japan -- ThingsAsian Article
		His efforts won international recognition in 1992 when the island, known as the "Alps in the Ocean" for its central mountain range of peaks exceeding 1,800 meters (5,940 feet), was registered as one of Japan's first UNESCO nature World Heritage sites.
		The number of tourists visiting the island, which has a permanent population of 14,000, rose 8.7 percent to a record 314,766 in the year to March 2004 for the fourth straight annual gain, according to local officials who predict a new record again this year.
		Tourism is now the island's biggest industry earning an estimated 10 billion yen (90 million dollars) a year, accounting for some 60 percent of the island's economy, but the life of islanders, who used to live from fishing and farming, has yet to improve.
	www.thingsasian.com /browse/stories/topic/Ecotourism/goto_article/article.2882.html (1013 words)

	いやしの旅　日本　〜A moment of relaxation in Japan.〜　Green - Yakushima Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		It is famous that the Yakushima Island has been registered to the world heritage on December of 1992.
		The reason why Yakushima Island is registered to the world heritage derives from the fact that it has a rich plant population which can be typified by the giant cryptomeria that have large tree age, and other moss or fern which can be seen only at Yakushima Island.
		The area of the island is 503km square, with a population of 15000.
	www.sipeb.aoyama.ac.jp /~mt-home/activities/2005joint/group4/e/midori/yakushima.html (410 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Yakushima island has an area of 19,000ha of which 7,000ha is located within the core area.
		The centre of the island, of granite, rises to Mt. Miyanoura, at 1,935m, the highest peak in Kyushu district.
		The macaque population on Yakushima is a potential pest species, raiding the orange orchards, and up to 20% of the island's macaque population was estimated as being captured or killed in a three year period (Sprague, 1986).
	sea.unep-wcmc.org /sites/pa/1314v.htm (1571 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.
		That is where the local electricity company has built turbines to harness the enormous hydro-electric potential on Yakushima - and it has done that so successfully that it produces far more electricity than the island's 15,000 inhabitants can use.
		The people of Yakushima have now got used to seeing the little blue car swishing silently around their island.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/sci/tech/4686826.stm (643 words)

	Yakushima: Day1
		Yakushima is a roughly circular island about 24 km's in diameter.
		The Alps are also not contained on a tiny island (unless you count Japan as a tiny island, which it is by Australian standards) and so there is plenty of time to climb up them.
		Yakushima is one of the WETTEST places in Japan.
	www.csse.monash.edu.au /~aland/JAPAN/yakushima1.html (2021 words)

	Profile of Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata)
		The Shimokita Peninsula is located at the northern part of the Honshu island and the northwest area of this peninsula (41º 31fN) is the northern limit of JM habitat (Masui, 1988; Nakagawa, Iwamoto, Yokota, & Soumah, 1996).
		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).
		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)

	GORP - UNESCO's Magnificent Seven - Australia's Fraser Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Fraser Island also happens to be the world's largest sand island—and well, it's a sandbox par excellence for outdoor enthusiasts.
		Alternatively, explore the island in a four-wheeler, either hired or as part of a tour.
		On your travels, visit the carcass of the Maheno wreck, a cruise liner washed ashore in the early part of the 20th century, the sandstone Pinnacles, a stretch of sacred red-cliffs, and Lake Mackenzie, an exquisitely transparent freshwater lake.
	gorp.away.com /gorp/location/unesco_2.htm (422 words)

	V“g““ú—{¤Hïz[y[WFNews & Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Yakushima is blessed with being nearly the southern-most island in the Ryukyu Island chain to be habu-free.?
		Yakushima boasts its own poisonous snake, the mamushi, and thankfully its rat-commensurate toxicity in its venom renders the mamushi non-fatal to a healthy human.
		Yakushima is nearly nuisance-free with regard to insects You will never be swarmed by gnats or stung by navigationally challenged honey-drunk bees or wasps.
	www.jcaw.org /news/story/2005/200503/green.html (1284 words)

	Akasa Media
		The island of Yakushima is a soulful antidote to this troubling question.
		This means that, while you can circumnavigate the island in a car in about four hours, a three-day hike across it will take you — in a very steep, upwards direction -- from coral reef-lined beaches to sub-tropical forests, then through misty warm and cool temperate rainforests to sub-alpine grasslands.
		Yakushima’s natural bounty offers an array of remarkable attractions: beaches, waterfalls, wildlife (Yaku deer and macaque monkeys may be frequently seen in the forests, or even from the road) hot springs, rivers, forests, mountains and subalpine meadows.
	www.akasamedia.com /travel/yakushima2.htm (1634 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)

	yakushima island - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
		yakushima island - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
		Yaku-shima (屋久島) is an island belonging to Japan, lying south of Kyushu.
		It is separated from Tanega-shima by the Vincennes Strait (Yaku-kaikyo), 12j m.
	www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/yakushima-island (78 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Hovercraft
		Location within the British Isles Southsea is a seaside resort located in Portsmouth at the southern tip of Portsea Island in the County of Hampshire in the United Kingdom.
		The Isle of Wight is an English island, south of Southampton off the southern English coast.
		The Jetfoil Toppi is a ferry which connects Yakushima, Tanegashima Island and Kagoshima port in Japan A hydrofoil is a boat with wing-like foils mounted on struts below the hull.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Hovercraft (2676 words)

	Trip to Yakushima Island - UNESCO World Heritage Site and Pride of Japan!
		Yakushima is also a great place for swimming, and probably for surfing as well.
		Yakushima is a pearl, undoubtedly one of the most interesting places in Japan to visit.
		Yakushima is located southern Japan, and is just a few hours by boat away from the port city of Kagoshima (pictured above).
	www.janhoo.com /2004/yakushima/part2.html (376 words)

	Monkeys, too, have dialects - Yellowworld Forums
		Nobuo Masataka of Kyoto University's Primate Research Institute, the researchers found that the calls of monkeys living on Yakushima island in Kagoshima Prefecture differ from those of monkeys of the same species that were moved from the island to Inuyama, Aichi Prefecture.
		Twenty-three Japanese macaques on Yakushima island and 30 descendants of the same species that were transferred in 1956 from the island to Mt. Ohira in Inuyama were examined by Masataka and the other researchers over a 10-year period from 1990.
		Among the calls of monkeys aged 1 to 18, monkeys on Yakushima uttered calls at 780 hertz on average, while the calls of monkeys in Mt. Ohira averaged 670 hertz.
	forums.yellowworld.org /showthread.php?t=27844 (308 words)

	Monkey Around on Yakushima Island
		The small southern island of Yakushima—boasting everything from the sub-tropical to sub-alpine environments—is one of the nation's best spots for wildlife viewing and hiking.
		Trails throughout the island are easy to follow, but a bit challenging because they are, more often than not, soaked.
		Often referred to as the "Alps of the Ocean," Yakushima Island has 40 peaks at over 3,200 feet high and is home to 1,300 plant and 150 different birds.
	away.com /tripideas/kagoshima-kyushu-hiking-trekking-307673.html (272 words)

	BREITBART.COM - Monkeys have accents too, researchers say
		One group was formed by 23 monkeys living on the southern Japanese island of Yakushima, and the other group comprised 30 descendants from the same tribe moved from the island to Mount Ohira, central Japan, in 1956.
		The result showed that the island group had a tone about 110 hertz higher on average than the one taken to central Japan.
		Monkeys on Yakushima Island have an accent with a higher tone because tall trees on the island tend to block their voice, Masataka said.
	www.breitbart.com /news/na/051129171115.ta9nlhz5.html (322 words)

	Fuel Cell Today - Best mixing of hydrogen and electricity in Yakushima island - A basic study for future sustainable ...
		Description: Yakushima island, one of the World Heritage sites, is located in the southern part of Japan.
		The rest of the energy consumed on the island includes gasoline, LP gas, gas oil, heavy oil and kerosene.
		On this island, hydroelectric, wind, photovoltaic, solar thermal, biomass and waste energy sources are available as renewable energy sources.
	www.fuelcelltoday.com /FuelCellToday/IndustryInformation/IndustryInformationExternal/IndustryInformationDisplayArticle/0,1588,990,00.html (218 words)

	JINEN Butoh Workshop in Yakushima Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Yaku-shima Island, lying on the sea to the south Point in the southern part of Kagoshima, is, because of its abundant nature, designated as a world heritage natural property for the first time in Japan.
		Seventy-five percent of the whole area of the island is mountainous.
		With much rainfall throughout the year, the island is covered with deep green forests, including more than 1,000-year-old Yaku cedars, and produces a mysterious atmosphere.
	www.omnisound.jp /Jinenco/Yakushima2006_e.html (955 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The centre of Yakushima Island, and parts of the island's southern and western coastal lowlands were accepted as a Biosphere Reserve in 1980.
		The island is accessible by air or by a four hour ferry trip from Kagushima (Sutherland and Britton, 1980).
		CONSERVATION VALUE Yakushima occupies a strategic situation on the boundary between the Holoarctic and Paleotropic biogeographical regions, and much of its conservation value is reflected in the 200 plant species which have the southern limit of their natural distribution on the island.
	sea.unep-wcmc.org /sites/pa/0376v.htm (1099 words)

	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.
		Almost all the rivers on the island originate in the mountain, and all the natural water on the island is certified as one of 100 remarkable waters in Japan by Ministry of Environment.
	www.finewaters.com /Water_Wellness/Remarkable_Waters_of_Japan/River_Waters_in_Yakushima_Isl_.asp (275 words)

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