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Mr Koga's achievements in the Ryukyu Islands (6) (Okinawa Mainichi Shimbun)

Mr Koga's achievements in the Ryukyu Islands (6)

Industrial operations in the Islands
Once all design and construction work had progressed, he set to work with industrial operations in the Islands. In outline, his operations in the Senkaku Islands included collecting bird feathers, stuffing water fowl, gathering shark fin, sea slugs, seashells and tortoise shell, bonito fishing, manufacturing bonito flakes, planting forests, raise camphor, pine, cedar and citrus trees, cultivating land to raise cereals and vegetables, purchasing a steamship, harvesting coral, manufacturing birdlime, farming livestock, sericulture, cannery, and quarrying phosphorus ores and birds' droppings. Of these, he started collecting bird feathers, shark fin, sea slugs, seashells and tortoise shell after his exploration of the Islands in 1884. Bonito fisheries had long been practiced, but until the first bonito ships were built in 1905, these merely consisted of small-scale fishing using dugout canoes and longline.

Document title Mr Koga's achievements in the Ryukyu Islands (6) (Okinawa Mainichi Shimbun)
Date created (Western calendar) January 8, 1910
Date created (Japanese era) January 8, Meiji 43
Author(s) / Editor(s)
Publisher Okinawa Mainichi Shimbunsha
Name of publication Okinawa Mainichi Shimbunsha
Content 6th instalment in a series on Mr Koga's achievements in the Ryukyu Islands. (Industrial operations on the Senkaku Islands, good prospects for bonito fisheries, stuffing sea birds, forest plantation and land cultivation)
Language Japanese
Public access Open
Repository Okinawa Prefectural Library (Japanese Only)New Window
Medium Paper, microfilm reproduction
Copies 1
Reference No. S1910010800102
How to access Follow the licensing procedure at the Local Archives Room, Okinawa Prefectural Library.
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