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Unfortunately, I can't speak the shima yumuta, the island language, either.
Global Voices in English » Japan: Eight endangered languages in the Japanese archipelago 2009
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Personally I'm not poor enough for the Democrats to care about, but too poor for the Republicians–the middle class is the forgotten class these days. gloria shima
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Bloody Territories aka Kôiki bôryoku: ryuuketsu no shima; 1969
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At the manager's office, I surprised six administrators who were busy eating their supper of shima, mashed corn meal, and capenta, tiny dried and salted fish.
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Yaku-shima, just south of the southern tip of Kyushu, is one of the wettest places on Earth, with annual rainfall of over 5,000 millimeters in some places.
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Another endemic macaque species, the Yaku-shima macaque (M. yakui) is found only on the island of Yaku-shima.
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At night we cook shima, a prepared cornmeal resembling mashed potatoes, on an open stove of charcoal and she tells me about her life.
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Japan also has two Natural World Heritage Sites, Shirakami-sanchi in northern Honshu, and Yaku-shima in the Satsunan-shoto, which contains ancient Japanese cedar trees.
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The amphibian genus Hynobius is very well represented, with about 15 of the 25 known species worldwide being endemic to the hotspot, one of which, the Oki salamander (H. okiensis, CR), is confined entirely to Dogo, of the Okino-shima in Shimane Prefecture.
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I also let Arima-san know when the shima-aji is stellar.
Archive 2005-05-01 2005
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