Yakushima - History and Info

Yakushima Island is a mountainous island. Miyanouradake (1,935 meters) in the central part is the highest peak in Kyushu. Forestry makes up a major portion of the economy. However, 80 percent of the forests became assets of the Japanese national government at the beginning of the Meiji period (1868– 1912). The Japanese cedar (Yakusugi) tree grows here and many of them are over one thousand years old. The variety of plants growing in any given locale on the island changes with the altitude and ranges from species indigenous to subtropical zones to those of cold temperature zones. Agricultural products are sugarcane, sweet potatoes, and Ponkan oranges (Citrus reticulata). One-third of the island forms the principal part of the Kirishima-Yaku National Park, which contains twenty-three volcanic peaks. In 1993 Yakushima became the first place in Japan to be designated as a World Heritage Site, and 196,500 tourists visit annually.

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In old days,
A suicide attack plane seems to have made an emergency landing in harumaki of Yakushima.
The old man looked.
I "remember that I heard a sound to creak of a fighter from far-off one".
Indeed, a fighter was out of condition and seemed to fall with a van, a van.
A pilot is going to still land somehow and,
The fighter was going to land at a field, but was not able to land,
A fighter was caught on a pine and fell in a clump of bamboo.
Therefore I save a pilot immediately,
We treated a pilot immediately.
I treated a pilot for around 1 month,
And I left Yakushima and returned to the mainland when to some extent a pilot recovered
A pilot left Yakushima and returned to the mainland
The old man told it.
And the old man continued a story.
From it,
About 1 week later
Perhaps I think that it is pilot of the fighter which it helped,
The fighter turned in the sky of our village three times slowly.
The fighter shook it in right and left.
I remember that he flew at a fleet of an enemy.
It is the last.
I never meet him.
That scene is not forgot.
As for those those days, the Yakushima offing have a hostile craft corps,
Because I saw it a fighter of an enemy went to the mainland as for me from there, and having flown,
I understood that he went there.
The old man told it to me.

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