Region
- Its regional center is Amami City in Amami Ōshima.
- There are no universities or colleges in the islands. From 2004, The Graduate School of Humanistic-Sociological Sciences of Kagoshima University started satellite schooling in Amami City.
- There are repeaters of television and AM radio. Among FM stations, only NHK-FM has a repeater, but there is a local community FM station as well.
- There are two local newspapers, namely Nankainichinichi Shimbun and Ōshima Shinbun.
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