✍ Editorial Note from the Miyako Island Media Team

In recent years, Miyako Island has avoided direct hits—but typhoons have continued to approach, leaving social and economic impacts.

Signs of intensifying typhoons and altered paths, driven by rising sea temperatures, cannot be ignored.

It is time to rethink the assumption that “no landfall = no danger.”

To protect the community—farmers, residents, and the tourism industry alike—we must evolve infrastructure and social practices in line with climate realities and prepare for the future with a proactive disaster strategy.