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unusual facts about Amami-Ōshima



Giuseppe Chiara

After the Shimabara siege, he landed on the island of Oshima, Japan and were later arrested at Chikuzen Province in May,1643.

Ichinoya Mitsuru

Ichinoya Mitsuru (born 28 December 1960 as Tetsuhiro Matsuda) is a former sumo wrestler from Tokunoshima, Ōshima, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan.

Ikitsuki, Nagasaki

On October 1, 2005 Ikitsuki, along with the town of Tabira, and the village of Ōshima (all from Kitamatsuura District), was merged into the expanded city of Hirado.

Japan Coast Guard Museum Yokohama

The centrepiece of the museum is a North Korean spy vessel, which was sunk by the Japan Coast Guard in December 2001 following a firefight in the East China Sea near the island of Amami-Ōshima.

Kenkichi Oshima

Fluent in the German language, during the Berlin Olympics, Ōshima had a 20 minute interview of Adolf Hitler, who apparently mistook Ōshima for a Japanese military attache of the same surname.

Mighty Servant 2

The ship was built in 1983 by Oshima Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. in Ōshima, Japan, for Dutch shipping firm Wijsmuller Transport, which merged in 1993 with Dock Express Shipping to become Breda-based offshore heavy lifting group Dockwise Shipping B.V. The vessel capsized in 1999 and was scrapped in 2000.

Ōshima District, Yamaguchi

In May 2007, Hawaiʻi’s replica ancient voyaging canoe Hōkūle‘a visited this small island to honour the connection between Suō-Ōshima and Hawaiʻi.

Richard Setlowe

Abe's notoriety gained international infamy primarily through Nagisa Oshima's film, In the Realm of the Senses (1976).

Ryukyuan languages

Similarly, the common language now used in everyday conversations in the Amami Ōshima is not the traditional Amami language, but rather a regional variation of Amami-accented Japanese, locally nicknamed トン普通語 (Ton Futsūgo, literally meaning "potato i.e. rustic common language") by older speakers.

Setouchi, Kagoshima

It also includes numerous offshore islands of Amami Ōshima, including the inhabited islands of Kakeromajima, Ukejima and Yoroshima.


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