A few years ago, I tried a Japanese-style bath on New Zealand's South Island.とは 意味・読み方・使い方

A few years ago, I tried a Japanese-style bath on New Zealand's South Island.

During the Pacific War, the Ogasawara Islands were an important strategic area in southern Japan.

Some of the Japanese people's ancestors are thought to have migrated from Taiwan to the Ryukyu Islands about 30,000 years ago.

On Jan. 20, a giant squid was caught alive in a dragnet off the coast of Tottori Prefecture.

English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779)

Forty-nine years ago a Japanese tuna fishing boat, the Daigo Fukuryu Maru, was operating near Bikini Atoll.

A fisherman caught the coelacanth off the coast of Indonesia in May of last year.

In nearby waters, a new island was formed by a volcanic eruption in 1973 but it later fused with Nishinoshima.

Recently a new project to transplant coral and save the reefs was started in Chatan Town, Okinawa Prefecture.

The residents of the Ogasawara Islands have long had extensive interaction with the peoples of Guam, Saipan and other islands of Micronesia.

So the Ministry of the Environment has planned the relocation of short-tailed albatross chicks to Mukojima in the Ogasawara Islands in hopes of creating a new breeding ground.

In 1986, another island was formed near Minami-ioto but it disappeared about two months later.

On Nov. 20, the Japan Coast Guard (JCG) announced that a volcanic eruption has formed a new island near Nishinoshima in the Ogasawara Islands.

Modern urban improvements were conducted on islands that are the base for coral reefs that are not healthy.

On the Big Island, a bon dance event is held every weekend during July and August at any one of the island’s many temples.

About 20 works are now exhibited in the island's woods, on its beaches, and along its paths.

Iijima Natsuki was the only Japanese windsurfer to participate in windsurfing world cups for eight years.

Once a week, a ship comes from Tokyo to Chichijima.

The first national baseball tournament for junior high school students living on remote islands will be held from July 26 to 28 on Izu Oshima, an island in the Tokyo administrative area.

On May 9, "Donchicchi aji," a new brand-name horse mackerel, was shipped from the Hamada fishing port in Shimane Prefecture to Kanto and other areas for the first time.

On April 18, a motorcycle was found on the shore of an island in British Columbia in Canada.

On Feb. 19, 10 chicks of around 40 days old were moved to Mukojima, about 350 kilometers to the south of Torishima.

Aqua Toto Gifu, Japan's largest freshwater aquarium, has opened in Kawashima Town, Gifu Prefecture.

With its new vessel, Japan will take part in an ocean drilling program together with countries such as the United States, Britain and France.

It is made from two old sabani (the traditional small wooden fishing boats of Okinawa) and is named the Uminchu-maru.

On Oct. 10, a Japanese macaque was caught in a house in Mishima, Shizuoka Prefecture.

On Sept. 11, an unidentified sunken ship was salvaged from the East China Sea off the coast of Amami Island.

One hundred years ago, on Feb. 22, 1905, Shimane Prefecture officially announced that the Takeshima islands belonged to Shimane Prefecture.

The 38-year-old adventurer from Kagoshima Prefecture set sail from Kagoshima on July 27.

It is said that the fishermen on Amami Island in Kagoshima Prefecture originally started ukidama baseball.