I have quite interesting piece of information for you. We haven't been sure about the location of Shi No Numa.
All we know is that its located in some Pacific Island. But now it all might change!
Kookaburra:
Looking trough the sound files of the classic maps in Black Ops (that cjdog23 provided **Click HERE to give him brains!**) in the Shi No Numa sound files there was 2 sounds that will give us point on real location of the Shi No Numa!
They were:
Kookaburra_00 and Kookaburra_01 and they played birds singing.
Kookaburra is a bird that lives in Austrailia and New Guinea.
So we can draw conclusion that Shi No Numa is located in New Guinea!
And Japanese had been in New Guinea:
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Quoted from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Guinea_campaign
Plantation:
Nymphaea:
New Guinea has Nymphea plantation.
Swamp trees:
New Guinea's swamp and trees.
Shi No Numa trees.
Ferns:
New Guinea has a lot of different ferns.
Rice:
Rice is grown also in New Guinea.
Buildings:
They look a lot like the SNN building.
Japanese empire in WW2:
Discuss! 8-)