Nansei Shoto Ryuku Islands-Loochoo Islands: A Pocket Guide Page: 31
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phate and raise sugar cane. Health conditions
are bad; typhus, malaria, and dysentery. There
are no poisonous snakes, but flies and rats are
common.
Minami Daito is inhabited mainly by tenant
farmers who raise sugar cane, coconuts and betel
nuts. The population is between 2,000 and 2,500.
Kita Daito, most northerly of the group,
produces phosphates and has a sugar refining
plant.
OKINAWA GUNTO is really important from a
military point of view. It .is a group of some 55
islands, with a total population of about 460,-
000. It has airfields, seaplane bases, a major
fleet anchorage, many smaller sheltered harbors,
and a naval base. Okinawa Gunto has been Japan's
defense headquarters for the Nansei Shoto, and a
switchboard for the enemy's lines of communica-t
tons to Formasa,the Philippines and the western
Pacific. There are a lot of towns on these is-
lands, but they are pretty backward compared to
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Special Publications Branch. Nansei Shoto Ryuku Islands-Loochoo Islands: A Pocket Guide, pamphlet, [1941..1946]; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1677274/m1/34/?rotate=0: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation.