HACHIJO, Japan -- I am driving a rental scooter along Tokyo Prefectural Route 216, brandishing a license plate that reads Shinagawa-ku, a ward in the southeast of the Japanese capital. With that, the connection to city life ends.
Hachijojima Island is technically a part of the great metropolis, administered by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's islands division, but it could hardly be more different.
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