Tanegashima

Borrowed from Japanese 種子島.

Tanegashima

1. An island belonging to the Ōsumi Islands in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan.
   • 2023 August 18, Mindy Weisberger, “Long-standing mystery of modified human skulls in ancient Japan solved by new analysis”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     The skulls belonged to individuals from the Hirota people, who lived on the southern Japanese island of Tanegashima from the third century to the seventh century.