Talk:Tori-shima (Izu Islands)

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Shouldn't this article be titled Tori Island (Izu Islands)?imars (talk) 04:55, 22 July 2008 (UTC)Reply

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This article seems to indicate that descendants from the Tori Islands in the Phillipine Sea were all killed with the eruption of 1902. I am not a historian, but my mother is from the village of Torishima, Kumejima of the Okinawan islands. Last time I visit, a few of the older villagers spoke a mixture of Tori and Okinawan which is foreign to the Japanese visitors. It is my understanding that when volcanic activity increased, the Japanese government provided villagers a choice to locate on the mainlands of Japan or in the Okinawas. I was told the Toris choose the tropical, coral-surrounded Okinawas because the fishing was more similar to the warm waters they knew. The Tori's were relocated and thus on Kume Jima and the village is called "Torishima"or "bird island" despite not being an island, nor having birds (habu[snakes] killed them all).

I know that the village was mostly fisherman/farmers when it started, but their has to be someone out there who received a bit of oral history. Uema Families? Itokazu families? Anybody have a toochan[old man] or baachan[old woman] with a good memory? We should probably get an oral history written before there are no Tori speakers left.

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