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2 unusual facts about Tsushima Island


Hilgendorf's tube-nosed bat

The smaller, brown coloured bat Ussuri Tube-nosed Bat is found in Korea, Russia (Far East and Sakhalin), and Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, Tsushima and Yakushima).

Tsushima Island

Migrating birds that make stops on the island include hawks, harriers, eagles, and Black-throated Loons.


Kakitsu

The Sō clan of Tsushima han (Tsushima Island) were given the right to license ships sailing west beyond Tsushima; and this also encompassed the opportunity to profit from whatever fees the Sō might charge.

Mongol invasions of Japan

They ravaged the islands of Tsushima and Iki, including piercing the hands of women and hanging them on their boats.


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