World Heritage candidate Ogasawara Islands
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Ogasawara Islands are islands of 104?2 in a total area on the Pacific Ocean. It is from Tokyo to about 1000 ?. Ogasawara Islands consist of isolated islands named Minami Torishima and Okino Torishima besides the south islands that indicate Nishinoshima and the volcano islands with the Ogasawara archipelago including [**jima] islands, Chichi-jima islands, and the mother island islands. It is an uninhabited island excluding Chichi-jima, the mother island, Ioto, and Minami Torishima. However, a general resident resides in Chichi-jima and the mother island only by parties concerned of the Self Defense Forces, the Meteorological Agency, and the Japan Coast Guard as for residing in Ioto and Minami Torishima.
Ogasawara Islands have the history of complete isolation after the life is born from the continent for a long time. Therefore, the living thing of the island accomplishes original evolution by calling, “Galapagos in the Orient”. For instance, the indigenous species such as animals such as [ogasawaraookoumori] and [ogasawaranosuri] and the plants named [munintsutsuji] and [muninbotan] is seen. However, these flora and fauna is on the verge of the edge of extinction in the development of the living thing and the island that man brought in.
The climate belongs to the subtropics and the tropics. In [**jima] islands, Chichi-jima islands, the mother island islands, and Nishinoshima, the subtropics, the volcano islands, Minami Torishima, and Okino Torishima are the tropics. The temperature differences between summer and winter are few, and the mild weathers through year. The typhoon comes all the year round though there is no rainy season.
The English phrase that Europe and America it is very interesting culturally residents were speaking mixes with Japanese dialectal, eight height Japanese standard dialect, and an original dialect is invented. It is called, “Ogasawara dialect”. Moreover, the Japanese one coexists with the Micronesian one in folk customs. “South seas [odori]” that became the folk customs cultural asset of the Tokyo specification in 2000 is a folk song that Micronesia influences.
Ogasawara Islands aim at the natural inheritance registration of the average of the World Heritage of UNESCO, and are registered in the tentative list. The day registered as the fourth natural heritage following Shiretoko, Shirakami Sanchi, and Yakushima Island is waited for.
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