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Amami name
As Japanese citizens, people of the Amami Islands today only have family names (surnames or last names) and given names. They are known for many unique one-character surnames that date back to the Edo period. A survey on telephone directories of 2002 shows that 21.5% of the residents of the Amami Islands have one-character surnames. Famous people with one-character surnames include Atari (中) Kōsuke, Hajime (元) Chitose and Nobori (昇) Shomu.
== Background ==
Although the Amami Islands are today part of Kagoshima Prefecture in the Kyūshū region, the inhabitants share much cultural heritage with Okinawans to the south. Politically, however, they were controlled by different polities for a long time. The Amami Islands were relatively late in being conquered by the Okinawa-based Ryūkyū Kingdom, and Ryūkyū's direct control did not last long. In 1609 the Satsuma Domain of southern Kyūshū conquered Ryūkyū. Satsuma put Amami under direct rule to increase tax revenue while Satsuma kept Ryūkyū on Okinawa. Thereafter Amami and Okinawan naming systems separately underwent great changes. Today they are distinct from each other.
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