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or sacred place that specially enshrines hunted dugongs with their skulls, but non-residents are not permitted to enter unless they receive special permission from inhabitants, and it is said that anyone without permission will be driven out by force.
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serves as the political, cultural, and economic center of the Yaeyama Islands. On maps dating to the 1700s, the Yaeyama Group of Islands appears as the "Majico Sima Group", "Nambu-soto Islands", "Nambu Soto", and the "Taipin Islands".
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were common as well, and Yaeyama once had the largest population of dugongs in the Ryukyu Islands. On Aragusuku Island, there is an
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archipelago. The Yaeyama Islands are the remotest part of Japan from the main islands and contain Japan's most southern (
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The Yaeyama Islands are home to numerous species of subtropical and tropical plants and
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The Yaeyama Islands are home to the production of traditional Okinawan textiles.
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literally means "multilayered mountains", and is related to the native name
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Festival. On Hateruma Island, this harvest festival is celebrated during
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Satellite image of Iriomote and Ishigaki in the Yaeyama Islands
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is the indigenous language of the rest of the islands.
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is now the native language of most of the population.
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Location of the Yaeyama Islands in Okinawa Prefecture
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Yaeyama Islands is located in Japan
Pacific Ocean
24°21′47″N 123°44′47″E / 24.36306°N 123.74639°E / 24.36306; 123.74639
Sakishima Islands
East China Sea
Ishigaki Island
Iriomote Island
Yonaguni Island
Mount Omoto
Japan
Okinawa Prefecture
Ryukyuans
Japanese
Yaeyama
Yonaguni
Okinawan
Northern Ryukyuan
archipelago
Okinawa Prefecture
Japan
Miyako Islands
Ryukyu Islands
Hateruma
Yonaguni
Ishigaki
Yaeyama
Proto-Ryukyuan
mangrove
sugarcane

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