Yaeyama-shoto

Yaeyama-shotō (The Yaeyama Islands) are an archipelago in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. The isles are the remotest part of Japan from the main islands and contains Japan's the most southern (Hateruma) and most western (Yonaguni) inhabited islands. The Yaeyamas are far closer to Taiwan than to Okinawa Island, much less the Japanese mainland. The islands form the southern part of the volcanic Ryukyu Islands. The administrative division of Yaeyama District covers all of the Yaeyama Islands except Ishigaki and the disputed Senkaku Islands.