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Yoroshima. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

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Yorojima (Amami: Yuru) is one of the Satsunan Islands, classed with the Amami archipelago between Kyūshū and Okinawa.

The island, 9.35 km² in area, has a population of approximately 140 persons, and is administered as the town of Setouchi, Kagoshima, on neighboring Amami-Oshima. Much of the island is within the borders of the Amami Guntō Quasi-National Park.

Adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA). Photography via Wikimedia Commons.

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