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Tsushima| Island in Nagasaki prefecture, Japan, between Korea and Japan in Tsushima Strait, area 702 sq km/271 sq mi; population (2005) 38,500. Forestry is the main industry, together with shiitake mushrooms, buckwheat, squid, and cultured pearls. The Russian fleet was destroyed by the Japanese under Admiral Togo here on 27 May 1905 in the Russo-Japanese War, and 12,000 Russians were killed. The chief settlement is Izuhara. |
| It is mountainous and 90% forested, and really consists of two islands, the uniting neck being dry only at low tide. There are also some 40 adjacent small islands. |
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| Shinginko Tokyo names ex-Shinsei Bank board member as new president TOKYO - Shinginko Tokyo, a struggling bank owned primarily by the Tokyo metropolitan government, said Monday it will appoint former Shinsei Bank board member Hirotaka Terai, who joined the lender as an adviser in April, as new president to replace Ryuichi Tsushima. The Mammoth Book of Modern Battles: 42 Gripping Accounts of Battles Including Tsushima, the Somme, Stalingrad, Dien Bein Phu, Desert Storm, Basra, and Many More" is an anthology of accounts of some of the biggest and most vital battles in modern military history, from World War I to today's modern Iraq War. China's modern strategists envision their nation as having four strategic sea-lanes: east (from across the Pacific), south (from Australia and the Pacific islands), west (from the Middle East and East Africa through the Indian Ocean), and north (through Sea of Okhotsk and the Tsushima Strait). |
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