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Sakishima

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Sa·ki·shi·ma  (säk-shmä, sä-ksh-mä)
An island group of Japan in the southern Ryuku Islands east of Taiwan. The islands were heavily bombed by the Allies in April-June 1945.


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TOKYO, July 27 Kyodo A strong typhoon, the season's eighth, was moving south of Ishigaki Island, Okinawa Prefecture, on Sunday morning, the Japan Meteorological Agency said, warning that it may approach the Sakishima island chain on Monday.
THE British Pacific Fleet engaged in its first heavy The bombardment in Japanese waters when battleships and cruisers turned their guns against the Japanese island of Miyako, at the north-eastern end of the Sakishima Group, 550 miles south-west of Japan.
Boat tours along the Nakama River take visitors upstream to see one of the island's true giants the colossal Sakishima Sappan trees.
 
 
 
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