Amami Ōshima is a treasure trove of unspoiled natural wonders, including extensive primeval forests with abundant mangroves and ferns, making for a natural environment teeming with rare insects and ...

Despite the environmental mistakes of the postwar decades, the violation of a once pristine landscape, a recent trip to Amami Oshima, gave very real cause for hope. Some regions have always, it seems, ...

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You won’t find Amami Oshima mentioned in Lonely Planet or the Rough Guide, which is reason enough to visit. Once a domain of Okinawa and now firmly within — yet far removed from — Kagoshima Prefecture ...

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