We started off only letting people know about islands for sale in other countries, but decided we'd also sell deserted islands inside Japan, too. Land is more expensive in Japan, so we recommend groups of buyers pool their money to buy a single island. It does depend on the local government involved, but in some cases it's even possible to name the island yourself.
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Related We want the people of Japan to know that the people of Hawaii welcome them to the Hawaiian Islands. DAVID IGE Your life is an island separated from all other islands and continents. Regardless of how many boats... KAHLIL GIBRAN In fact, the Senkaku Islands are... inherent territory of Japan that is recognized in our history an... NAOTO KAN Japan has been consistent in its position. Naturally we'll strongly claim sovereignty over the four ... HIROYUKI HOSODA Charles Darwin noticed the result. He observed that in some island chains, there would be islands at... HUBERT STAUDIGEL We are selling some but are still net buyers because we think property values are still going up in ... FRED SCHMIDT One of our Japanese students was planning on going home to Japan for spring beak, but his passport w... MATT BOXLER China has become a major presence for most countries around the world but notably for its neighborin... NAOTO KAN In a sense, each of us is an island. In another sense, however, we are all one. For though islands a... J. DONALD WALTERS We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different. CRAIG GROESCHEL I'm told that the airplanes now serve more airports around the state and Island Airlines provided mo... MARSHA WIENERT You Can See Russia From America! There are two small Islands in the middle of the Bering ... HANK BRACKER We in the Virgin Islands work hard, but we play hard, too. EDWARD THOMAS You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fool... HENRY DAVID THOREAU The January sale has come of age. It's no longer a local, domestic sale, but a continuation of the N... GEOFFREY RUSSELL It is general consensus [that corporate blackmail] is probably occurring more in Japan than it does ... JAMES FIORILLO You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fool... HENRY DAVID THOREAU It's too early to pinpoint the specific locations and amount of rain, but we definitely see an incre... BOB BURKE We've been in the Hawaiian Islands for a long time now and we're very committed there and we would p... GEORGIA TAYLOR Grand Turk Island is so named because it is the largest island in the Turks Islands, which is the sm... CAPTAIN HANK BRACKER The yen is a yardstick for sentiment. We think that Japan is having a bad situation, so you sell Jap... MARC DESMIDT Australia is properly speaking an island, but it is so much larger than every other island on the fa... CHARLES STURT Nissan develops around 10 models a year, but about 50 designs are created annually. Some products ha... SHIRO NAKAMURA Japan might have started this thing (selling) off. Now that we live and breathe in this global econo... LINDA JAY We are also delighted that this bad bill is off the table for the time being, and that there are sti... BRUCE BERMAN The product is very expensive but it is worth its money in certain sub-groups of patients but not fo... MATTIAS NEYT If it's possible to do some charity, I'm always there, ... A lot of people, they are thinking that o... HERMANN MAIER The typical big Japanese company has somewhere between a third and 40 percent of its revenues coming... WILBUR ROSS We don't have a host and it's hard to vote yourself off the island when you're the only one on it. TOM HANKS The photos were taken at the three islands, North Island, South Island, and Stewart Island. There ar... KAREN EDWARDS We would like to see local taxes be more balanced and not overly rely on the sales tax. On the other... DICK WILLIAMS Tokyo is bigger than Kumamoto. And Japan is bigger than Tokyo. And even bigger than Japan... Even bi... SōSEKI NATSUME The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL People living on some of the islands of the Pacific don't describe much lightning in their language. HUGH CHRISTIAN 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON I thought to live on an island was like living on a boat. Islands intrigue me. You can see the perim... JAMIE WYETH And it's very strange, but I think there is something very common - not only in Celtic music - b... NOBUO UEMATSU On December 5, 1941, Chicago led a task force built around the carrier Lexington to Midway Island, a... JACK ADAMS We never work on only one project because we never know if we will get permission for a project. So,... CHRISTO Conception does not depend on the virility of the sperm cells or egg cells alone,but it also depends... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Centuries ago, sailors on long voyages used to leave a pair of pigs on every deserted island. Or the... CHUCK PALAHNIUK In some cases, they've been around for 30 to 50 years. What we know is millions of people have been ... JEFF TREWHITT It is possible for Japan to become the model of a society that does not rely on nuclear power. NAOTO KAN For the most part, most of the people on this island do not demand too much of government, but when ... HARRY KIM Our island has been the source of eagles for both mainland populations and northern islands. It's po... ANN MUSCAT Hawaii and Fiji are two of the best island groups in the world to visit as a vacationer. The great h... JAMES A. MICHENER My parents came from the Kyushu Island in the Southern part of Japan to find work in Tokyo. So we co... TAKASHI MURAKAMI We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep. WILLIAM JAMES On the one hand, Japan realizes relations between the two countries should not proceed in their curr... LIU JIANGYONG If Island Heights votes to join us in the study, it will join us in the potential tax savings. If th... DAVID MEYER We have more endangered species here in our islands than any other state in the country. DAVID IGE As we are Japan-based carrier, planes usually depart from Japan in the morning and come back to Japa... MASAAKI TOI I think it is the responsibility of anyone involved in politics to always think of what Japan can do... SHINZO ABE However in countries outside of Japan I think game music is still a potential growth market that has... NOBUO UEMATSU That's what's happening... zombies are out... but in hour movie... not in series. DEYTH BANGER I don't feel embraced. I feel like a survivor. I was almost like we were on a deserted island. But w... JOHN CARLOS Japan tends to focus on small-island developing states with marine-focused economies and marine-focu... KAREN STEUER They'll sell it, pretty much, as quickly as they can ... to get money to buy more, and also so there... BRANDON GRASSE Only a limited number of people from Japan can purchase travel in December because the rates are ver... RYOKICHI TAMAKI In the 1970s, Japan moved into the U.S. turf with its televisions, cars, chips, and steel. But if yo... FUJIO MITARAI We also have plans to set up similar systems in Neil and Havelock islands because the oldest recorde... SAMIR ACHARYA Remote forest areas that function as refuges for threatened island species are increasingly rare and... DAVID OLSON I have this weird tropism for islands. Take me to an island as far from New York as I can possibly g... GARTH RISK HALLBERG At the end of last year, we couldn't find stocks to buy in Japan. Now we're seeing a lot of changes ... LEAH ZELL Sri Lanka is an island that everyone loves at some level inside themselves. A very special island th... ROMESH GUNESEKERA The latest data showing that land prices in Tokyo rose for the first time in 15 years has renewed co... HIROICHI NISHI The island of Gont, a single mountain that lifts its peak a mile above the storm-racked Northeast Se... URSULA K. LE GUIN ... everyone knew that all islands were worlds unto themselves, that to come to an island was to com... GUY GAVRIEL KAY It is an island full of myth, full of story, full of history, ... There are many, many tales about t... JOSE MARIA We believe that the success achieved in assisting U.S.-based Internet companies to enter Japan can b... MASAYOSHI SON She tapped on the window with her embossed hairbrush. They were too far off to hear. The drone of th... VIRGINIA WOOLF The idea is to believe me... but as far as I see the world... to believe is a sin... to trust me one... DEYTH BANGER Today, we have three suspected cases of bird flu in the island of Reunion. XAVIER BERTRAND Civilians in the east are looking to their government for protection. But in many cases government s... KOLAWOLE OLANIYAN Paradoxically, the people and state of Japan living on such moral props were not innocent but had be... KENZABURO OE We're urging people, particularly on Padre Island, in the strongest possible terms to evacuate, DAVID GARCIA We're urging people, particularly on Padre Island, in the strongest possible terms to evacuate. DAVID GARCIA To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you r... MANDY HALE The pact we have with Japan is interesting. Because if somebody attacks us, Japan does not have to h... DONALD TRUMP In America, I get a lot of younger kids, but there's teens and adults too, ... In Europe, for some r... AVRIL LAVIGNE We immediately started our training program because the two cubs not only need to adapt themselves t... LI DESHENG We decided to offer prize money in the half marathon only and spend more money on the people. LYNN FLANAGAN During my tour of the gulf states, people felt not only were they abandoned, but that there was a de... BOB LAW As in all cases where people are involved in tragedies, there does seem to be some slowdown to other... EUGENE TEMPEL As in all cases where people are involved in tragedies, there does seem to be some slowdown to other... EUGENE TEMPEL Personally, I think Japan is the strongest team in Asia and we want to finish Pool A as the top team... SADAHARU OH Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. JEFFREY FRY In our excessive involvement in the affairs of other countries, we are not only living off our asset... J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the... JOHN ARCHIBALD WHEELER We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the... JOHN WHEELER We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does th... JOHN A. WHEELER But we're only talking about the North American league. Japan sent its best players to Athens, ALDO NOTARI The people in Japan know more about the history of jazz and the musicians than the people in the Uni... BILLY HIGGINS Right now, everybody is sort of sitting on their hands doing nothing. But if we show some local init... HARRY BURGER After 1656 the Dutch, who had gained control over the Moluccas, chose the islands that could be most... MEREDITH SAYLES HUGHES The data says that with the poor, a little money can buy a lot of happiness. If you're rich, a l... DANIEL GILBERT The rain, which had continued yesterday and last night, ceased this morning. We then proceeded, and ... MERIWETHER LEWIS I started my career as a singer in Japan, but left it all behind to focus on my dancing career. CARRIE ANN INABA We tried to buy it when we first moved in, but it wasn't for sale. JOSEPH COLLINS As the people of Shishmaref lose their natural hunting grounds to the warming sea, they are forced t... AMY J. BERG
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