Uni Island

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Uni Island is an island located in Tsushima, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan, on the border between Japan and South Korea. The entire territory of Uni Island is state-owned land, and the Air Self-Defense Force is stationed on the island (the unit is the 19th Vigilance Team of the Western Air Vigilance Control Regiment under the Western Air Front). Therefore, except for military personnel, access to the island is not permitted. Although there are no residential buildings on the island, Haikuri Island is not uninhabited as the Ministry of Defense has a government building. In the village of Waniura near Tsushima Island, a festival called the Itobatago Festival, during which villagers are allowed to visit the island to participate in the event, and local ferries are commissioned by the Self-Defense Forces to transport the crew three times a day. The origin of the island's name comes from the fact that many sea urchins settle around the island, as the name Uni means sea urchin in Japanese.

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