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Amami island奄美大島alternative words: Amamioshima island, Amamioshima, Amami oshima, Amami keywords: island , kyushu , okinawa related topics: Kagoshima Prefecture , Okinawa Prefecture related web sites: http://www3.ocn.ne.jp/~amamicf/ explanation: Biggest island located between Kyushu and Okinawa islands. Its surface is about 709 km2 and the population 79,000. Thanks to its subtropical climate, man cultivates bananas, pineapples, sugar canes and papayas. Its specialty is Oshima-tsumugi, a kind of pongee. After the World War II it had been occupied by Americans but return back to Japan in 1953. | |