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	Yonaguni, Okinawa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Yonaguni (与那国町; -chou) is a town located in Yaeyama district, Okinawa, Japan.
		As of 2003, the town has an estimated population of 1,822 and the density of 63.09 persons per km².
		Yonaguni is also the name of the westernmost island of Japan, with three main towns, Yonaguni, Sonai, and Kubura.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yonaguni,_Okinawa (109 words)

	Okinawa Prefecture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Okinawa's capital, Naha, is located in the southern part of the largest and most populous island, Okinawa Honto, which is approximately half-way between Kyūshū and Taiwan.
		Okinawa's location in the East China Sea, and relatively close proximity to Japan, Korea, China and South East Asia allowed the Ryūkyū Kingdom to become a prosperous trading nation.
		Okinawa is a major producer of sugar cane, pineapples, papayas and other tropical fruits.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Okinawa (882 words)

	Yonaguni - Wikitravel
		Yonaguni is notorious for its local language, brewed in isolation for centuries, which even those from mainland Okinawa find utterly incomprehensible.
		Yonaguni's unique attraction for archaeologists and divers alike are the mysterious underwater ruins (海底遺跡 kaitei iseki) which lie off the southern coast of the island.
		Yonaguni is best known for hanazake (花酒), literally "flower sake", a drink nowhere near as dainty as you might expect from the name: it's the local 60° awamori and tradition demands drinking it straight, without even an ice cube to ease the pain.
	wikitravel.org /en/Yonaguni (2490 words)

	Yonaguni (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Yonaguni (与那国島: Yonaguni-jima) is the name of the westernmost island of Japan, as well as the language spoken there (see Yonaguni language).
		Yonaguni was part of the continent until the last ice age.
		At the time that it was constructed, the area of Yonaguni composed the land bridge between the islands of Taiwan, Ryukyu and Japan with Asia in the days of the ice age.
	hallencyclopedia.com /Yonaguni (797 words)

	A Check-list of the Birds of Okinawa Prefecture
		The swallow is on the ML for April and November, and on the YL for 7 November 1980 on Ishigaki and 4 February 1980 on Iriomote.
		Nakasone and Yamashiro observed one on Yonaguni on 25 November 1985.
		Tetsujiro Harato and Kinjo observed one bird on 26 December 1986 on Yonaguni, and Shoyama photographed one bird on 20 November 1987 on Iriomote.
	www.cs.le.ac.uk /people/ferjan/BIRDS/OKINAWA/Okinawa3c.html (8709 words)

	Okinawa Prefecture - Biocrawler definition:Okinawa Prefecture - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Okinawa's location in the East China Sea, and relatively close proximity to China, Japan, Taiwan, and the Philippines allowed the Ryūkyū Kingdom to become a prosperous trading nation.
		On May 15, 1972, Okinawa once again became part of Japan, although to this day the US maintains a large military presence there: more than 50,000 US military personnel and dependents, including 17,600 Marines, are still based there.
		Its body is often bound with snakeskin (from pythons, imported from elsewhere in Asia, rather than from Okinawa's poisonous habu, which are too small for this purpose, but which are sometimes used to make habu awamori...)—and the eisa dance—a traditional drumming dance.
	biocrawler.com /biowiki/Okinawa (942 words)

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		On Okinawa, McWhirter observed one bird at Kijoka, Ohgimi-son on 6 September 1986, one bird at Teruma, Yonagusuku-son on 4 December 1986 and two birds at Namizato, Kin-cho on 1 March 1987.
		Okinawa may be the most northern wintering area for the stint.
		Hachisuka and Udagawa (1953) cite Cogswell (1948) as having observations from Okinawa.
	www.cs.le.ac.uk /people/ferjan/BIRDS/OKINAWA/Okinawa3b.html (8328 words)

	Yonaguni, Okinawa -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		As of 2003, the town has an estimated ((statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn) population of 1,822 and the (The amount per unit size) density of 63.09 persons per (additional info and facts about km²;) km²;.
		(additional info and facts about Yonaguni) Yonaguni is also the name of the westernmost island of Japan, with three main towns, Yonaguni, Sonai, and Kubura.
		It is also home to two mysterious (The language (related to Japanese) that is spoken by the people of the Ryukyu Islands) Ryukyuan writing systems, "Kaida-di" (also used on Ishigaki Island where it is called "Kaida-zi") and "Daahan" (also used on Ishigaki Island where it is called "Yaahan").
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/y/yo/yonaguni,_okinawa.htm (123 words)

	Yonaguni, Okinawa - TheBestLinks.com - Japan, Population, 2003, Square kilometer, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Yonaguni, Okinawa - TheBestLinks.com - Japan, Population, 2003, Square kilometer,...
		Yonaguni, Okinawa, Japan, Population, 2003, Square kilometer, Population...
		As of 2003, the town has an estimated population of 1,822 and the density of 63.09 persons per kmandsup2.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Yonaguni__2C___Okinawa.html (147 words)

	The Morien Institute - Exclusive illustrated interview with Professor Masaaki Kimura about the underwater pyramid ...
		Yonaguni is shown to the left, and on the right is the image of the
		But submerged beneath the waves near the Japanese island of Yonaguni is evidence that may well overturn that long-held theory.
		Okinawa and Japan was inundated, and only in the last few years has the attention of marine scientists been
	www.morien-institute.org /interview1_MK.html (954 words)

	Ooparts & Ancient High Technology--Underwater Cities; Noah's Flood Proof?
		Yonaguni is a small island south-west of Okinawa in the Japanese archipelago.
		In the waters around Okinawa and beyond to the small island of Yonaguni, divers located eight separate locations beginning in March 1995.
		Geologically, the Yonaguni pyramid sank into the ocean at the end of the last ice age, around ten thousand years ago.
	www.s8int.com /water2.html (1203 words)

	Yonaguni: Diver's paradise - JapanUpdate.com - Okinawa News, Classifieds, Events, Culture, Forums, and more! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The island is the Okinawa that you thought you would find when you first stepped off the airplane and into this world of heat, humidity and cultural exchange.
		Okinawa University organized a panel talk, Saturday, on the controversial but officially approved history textbook that has been the target of strong criticism by Japan’s several Asian neighbors.
		According to the latest report by Okinawa Labor Agency, based on regular mandatory health checks for workers, the number of people who have health problems with some part of their body has been constantly ten percent more than national average for last 10 years.
	www.japanupdate.com /en?id=2817 (1597 words)

	AR13 - JAPAN'S UNDERWATER RUINS By Frank Joseph
		Then, in late summer of the following year, another diver in Okinawa waters was shocked to see a massive arch or gateway of huge stone blocks beautifully fitted together in the manner of prehistoric masonry found among the Inca cities on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, in the Andes Mountains of South America.
		The sunken buildings are known to cover the ocean bottom (although not continuously) from the small island of Yonaguni in the southwest to Okinawa and its neighboring islands, Kerama and Aguni, some 311 miles.
		Other parallels with Okinawa's oldest sacred buildings are found near Noro, where burial vaults designed in the same rectilinear style are still venerated as repositories for the islanders' ancestral dead.
	www.atlantisrising.com /issue13/ar13japanunder.html (2107 words)

	Royal Priest Research - Featuring the Work of Lyssa Royal
		Okinawa (or more specifically Chinen, the area in which we were staying) sits on a shelf it seems, and when the tide goes out, there is a long area of sea that is turquoise blue before it drops off into the ocean depths.
		My inner guidance told me that the grid over Yonaguni is intact (unlike a lot of other sacred sites whose grids were often damaged through ancient nuclear war or lots of bloodshed) and this was optimum for the work we were going to do in activating the ancient Lemurian temple.
		However, because we only had 2 ½ days on Yonaguni, she warned them it might be pretty intense and that if anyone was uncomfortable, to please ask their higher selves to tone it down.
	www.lyssaroyal.com /art10.htm (5252 words)

	Conversation for Exploration - Japan's Underwater Stone Monuments - Shun Daichi - Okinawa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Masaaki Kimura, a marine geologist with the University of the Ryukyus in Okinawa has spent several years studying all eight sties, especially Yonaguni, which was found 13 years ago, in 1985.
		He reasons that if the five layers on the Yonaguni site had been carved by nature, you would find debris from the erosion to have collected around the site, but no rock fragments have yet been found.
		The Yonaguni site might be ceremonial platforms, and the Okinawa site seems similar to a castle wall, a conjecture that is supported by nearby castles on the island with a similar architectural style," says Arbuthnot.
	www.lauralee.com /japan.htm (1297 words)

	Atlantis Okinawa Underwater Shopping Mall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Atlantis Okinawa is a new discovery and has yet to be thoroughly explored.
		Divers have discovered an ancient city under the waters of Yonaguni, a southern island in the Ryukyu chain of Okinawa, Japan.
		Yonaguni is an estimated 15,000 years old, placing the start of civilization far before the Ancient Sumerians or Chinese.
	www.virtualokinawa.com /atlantis (140 words)

	Ryukyuan Landforms
		One beautiful celt-like stone tool in particular that was found on Yonaguni (presently in the possession of Dr. Kimura) is composed of igneous rock, possibly a diabase, that is not found exposed on Yonaguni Island.
		Either this tool or the raw material from which it was manufactured was transported to Yonaguni in ancient times, furnishing evidence of an ancient stone-working tradition on Yonaguni independent of the underwater structures.
		Yonaguni tombs in the coastal regions imitate the same step functions found on the submerged platforms, viz., two or three steps, usually of different heights, connecting each platform horizon in elevated or sunken space on one side with great systemization of space.
	www.affs.org /html/ryukyuan_landforms.html (2643 words)

	VT Okinawa Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		I have 100 acres of volcanic soil on hainan island of China.
		I'm going to be in Okinawa in mid-September and hope to travel to a few different islands by ferry.
		My family will be visiting Okinawa for the first time in 24 years and I know alot has changed since then.
	forum.virtualtourist.com /forum-1430-1-Travel-Okinawa-1-forum.html (1509 words)

	The world's top ryukyuan languages websites
		Since Amami Archipelago, Miyako Archipelago, Yaeyama Archipelago, and Yonaguni Island are less developed than Okinawa Archipelago, their languages are not declining as quickly as that of Okinawa, and children continue to be brought up in these languages.
		Speakers of Okinawa form the majority of the speakers of Ryukyuan languages.
		However, the proportion of adults to children in speakers of Okinawa is much more uneven than with the other languages: it is quickly losing ground as a native language, while the other Ryukyuan languages, although they are losing ground, are slipping only gradually.
	dirs.org /wiki-article-tab.cfm/ryukyuan_languages (526 words)

	Morien Institute - the mysterious underwater pyramid structure at Yonaguni
		Studies of the structures, such as that conducted over the past ten years or so by Professor Masaaki Kimura, a marine geologist at the Department of Physics and Earth Sciences at the University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, were responsible for initiating the debate that currently rages about the Yonaguni
		He had been invited there by Graham Hancock, who was then researching "Heaven's Mirror", filming a series of TV programmes, and presumably laying the groundwork for his recent book "Underworld".
		Whilst there, Dr Schoch debated the structure, and the local geology of nearby Yonaguni Island, with Professor Masaaki Kimura, whose work on the underwater structures in that area had come to the attention of Graham Hancock some time earlier, and had featured in his books and on the television programmes that he presented.
	www.morien-institute.org /yonaguni.html (1690 words)

	Diving Packages Tours and Holidays in Japan Okinawa and Diving Courses in Kyushu
		Okinawa is an archipelago of hundreds of islands and islets situated in the very deep south of the Japanese archipelago.
		One of the most amazing underwater mysteries in the world is the Yonaguni megalith structure, which is believed to be a relic of a very ancient civilization from its evident craftsmanship.
		Visibility at Yonaguni is famously in the range of 40 meters (130 feet) plus, allowing excellent underwater pictures and video taking.
	www.divingtravel.com /japan.htm (886 words)

	Okinawa
		Near Okinawa Island and Japan's Southernmost island "Yonagumi" Island.Stones in the pictures look much more man-made to me, than stone pavements of "lost civilization" off Bimini Island (I watch Discovery Channel very often!).
		Okinawa Dive Map, Beach Information, Dive shops information, Hazardous Marine Life and more; well organized site
		A lot of information on Okinawa with frequent updates.
	www.divejapan.com /okinawainf.htm (254 words)

	An Chang: Monkey Harmonizing Songs / RootsWorld Recording Review
		She found work in a beet sugar factory on Yonaguni, the westernmost island of the Ryukyu chain to which Okinawa belongs, and coaxed the locals to share their folk songs, among them "Harara Rude," the beguiling lullaby heard on Monkey Harmonizing Songs.
		She founded the female vocal group Shisars in the late 1980s, but illness affected her singing ability and she was forced to withdraw before Shisars made its first and only recording.
		While An-Chang continues to recuperate songs learned from the old singers of Yonaguni, Okinawa and nearby islands, the group is future oriented and eclectic, exploring folk song from Taiwan ("We Are Happy: Perfect Tense"), northeast China ("You Don't Know") and the Solomon Islands ("Fish Catching Song/ Prayer for a Large Catch of Animals").
	www.rootsworld.com /reviews/anchang.shtml (467 words)

	Yonaguni (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		La isla Yonaguni (en japonés: 与那国島, Yonaguni Jima) es una isla japonesa, perteneciente al Archipielago de Ryûkyû, localizada a 300 millas (480 km) al suroeste de Okinawa y situada también al oriente de Taiwan.
		En la isla Yonaguni se habla un idioma propio, el idioma yonaguni.
		Para 1879, la isla fue incorporado de manera formal al país y de 1945 a 1972 fueron ocupadas por Estados Unidos, posteriormente fueron devueltas a Japón, formando parte de la prefectura de Okinawa.
	enciclopedia.cc /Yonaguni (432 words)

	LINK-MAIL: Ancient Underwater Ruins - Facts, Maps & Detailed Images
		One of the most famous undersea ruins can be found near Okinawa.
		(".."In the waters around Okinawa and beyond to the small island of Yonaguni, divers located [ruins at] eight separate locations beginning in March 1995.....
		The mysterious underwater pyramid structure at Yonaguni ("..a round-up of the news and recent developments in various studies of the mysterious pyramid structure that was discovered in 1985 by dive tour operator, Kihachiro Aratake, off the coast of Yonaguni-jima, Japan..." - Overview and web guide)
	www.link-mail.com /44140.html (865 words)

	Royal Priest Research - Featuring the Work of Lyssa Royal
		We just updated the site with some photos and a report about my experiences in Okinawa and Yonaguni Island, Japan, from June 2005.
		I won't go into details here, because it is all written about in the article The Mysteries of Okinawa and Yonaguni Island, Japan.
		Suffice it to say, a dream came true for me - a visit to Okinawa and the intriguing underwater "temple" discovered in the 1990s off the coast of Yonaguni island, Japan (very close to the island of Taiwan).
	www.lyssaroyal.com /update.htm (613 words)

	Japanese Language
		Central and southern Okinawa Island, Kerama Islands, Kume-jima, Tonaki, Aguna islands, and islands east of Okinawa Island
		Southern Okinawa, Ishigaki, Iriomote, Hatoma, Kohama, Taketomi, Kuroshima, Hateruma, Aregusuku islands
		When the Catholic missionary Francis Xavier arrived in Japan in the 17th Century, he was confronted not only with a totally foreign language, but an amazingly complex language that seemed to change depending on the speakers.
	www.koreanhistoryproject.org /Jta/Jp/JpLAN0.htm (666 words)

	Coral Calcium Mineral Supplements Help Osteoporosis, Muscle Pain and Much More.
		It is these additives containing flow agents, fillers, binders, and coatings required for adhesive properties that affect the digestive tract.
		CoralMin™ is Aragonite calcium carbonate and noncalcined coral minerals.
		CoralMin™ is mined directly from ancient coral beds above sea level from Yonaguni Island of Okinawa, Japan where the estimated amount of the deposit is about 10 billion pounds.
	www.coralminerals.com (382 words)

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