Ishigaki

Ishigaki Island additionally called Ishigakijima, is a Japanese island west of Okinawa Honto and the second one-biggest island of the Yaeyama Island organization. It is in the City of Ishigaki in Okinawa Prefecture. The town features because the commercial enterprise and shipping middle of the archipelago. The island is served via New Ishigaki Airport, the largest airport within the Yaeyamas. Much of the island and surrounding waters consisting of Mount Omoto and Kabira Bay are included as part of Iriomote-Ishigaki National Park.

Ishigaki Island, just like the rest of Okinawa, is culturally prompted through both Japan and Taiwan because of its region, about 300 km off the north eastern coast of Taiwan. A tsunami of document peak hit Ishigaki Island in 1771. The island provided the scene for the arrest of one of the perpetrators of Aum Shinrikyo's sarin gas attack, Yasuo Hayashi, 21 months after and 2000 km away from wherein the crime befell. Ishigaki Port may be increased so that 5 big Japanese Coast Guard patrol boats may be stationed there. The JSDF is also considering deploying brief range anti-ship missilespossibly the Type 96 Multi-Purpose Missile System at the island.