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Awaji-shima
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Awaji-shima (äwä`jē-shē`mä), island, 32 mi (52 km) long and from 3 to 17 mi (4.8–27 km) wide, Hyogo prefecture, Japan, in the Inland Sea. Sumoto, on Osaka Bay, is the chief city and port. A relatively flat, fertile island, it produces flowers, dairy products, vegetables, and fruit. Its fishing industry, which has declined due to overfishing, is made up primarily of freshwater fish cultivation. It was to Awaji-shima that the Empress Shotoku banished (764) the Emperor Junnin. Awaji-shima was the epicenter of the 1995 Kobe earthquake.
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Microlepia strigosa was distributed mainly near sea level in Kyushu, Shikoku, and southern Honshu, and at some localities in the Osaka Bay area: southernmost Osaka, southern and eastern Awaji Island, and Nishinomiya city.
Range expansion of two tropical to subtropical ferns, ladder brake ... by Murakami, Kentaro; Yukihiro, Morimoto / American Fern Journal
I'm not asking you to feel any sympathy for pressmen lucky enough to be out here in the FarLAST SATURDAY morning, the Football Association dragged a couple of hundred journalists of all nationalities down to Awaji Island for the England team's farewell press conference.
Oliver Holt Column: England farewell gave us sweet FA by The Mirror (London, England)
Wasaburo Kashiwagi, the mayor of Tsuna on Awaji Island, said: ``I want to erect some bronze statues of David Beckham, Michael Owen and coach Sven-Goran Eriksson to remember how proud we were to have them here.
Football: World Cup 2002: Mayor makes statue pledge by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
 
 
 
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