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	Ogasawara Islands - UNESCO World Heritage Centre
		The Ogasawara Islands refer to a group of islands, which stretch for 400 km from north to south, lying in the Northwest Pacific south of the Japanese archipelago.
		The Ogasawara Islands located roughly 1000 km from the Japanese archipelago and about 550 km from the Mariana Islands, and they are all oceanic islands that have never been connected to a continent since their formation.
		The Ogasawara Islands are the only place where we can see boninite and transitional volcanic products that record the entire growth process of an oceanic island arc from its birth to its present young stage as well as the type locality of boninite.
	whc.unesco.org /en/tentativelists/5095 (1148 words)

	Bonin Islands - LoveToKnow 1911
		BONIN ISLANDS, called by the Japanese Ogasawara-Jima, a chain of small islands belonging to Japan, stretching nearly due north and south, a little east of 142 E., and from 26° 35' to 2 7° 45' N., about 500 m.
		European geographers have been accustomed to divide the islands into three groups for purposes of nomenclature, calling the northern group the Parry Islands, the central the Beechey Islands and the southern the Coffin or Bailey Islands.
		The second largest of all, Chichi-jima, in Japanese cartography was called Peel Island in 1827 by Captain Beechey, and the same officer gave the name of Stapleton Island to the Ototo-jima of the Japanese, and that of Buckland Island to their Ani-jima.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Bonin_Islands (742 words)

	Ogasawara Islands Summary
		The Ogasawara (or Bonin) Islands lie between the Japanese mainland and the Marianas in the North Pacific.
		The Ogasawara islands are a part of an island arc known geologically as a 'fore arc'.
		Ogasawara was claimed by Japan from the British in 1875 and became part of Tokyo prefecture in 1880.
	www.bookrags.com /Ogasawara_Islands (1760 words)

	JNTO Website \| Find a Location \| Tokyo \| Ogasawara Islands
		The islands were formed by the protrusions of an ancient underwater volcano, so flatlands are rare and there are many sheer cliffs along the coast.
		Since the Ogasawara Islands have always been remote, never being adjacent to a continent since they were formed, animals and plants have evolved in their own way there.
		Chichi-jima Island, the main island and the entrance to the area, is 1,000 kilometers south of downtown Tokyo in the Pacific Ocean, and it has a land area of about 24 square kilometers.
	www.jnto.go.jp /eng/location/regional/tokyo/ogasawarashotou.html (364 words)

	Pacific Magazine: Japan’s ‘Pacific Islands’
		As Isaac Ogasawara explains, doing this separated a number of young people from their parents who stayed in the islands as Japanese citizens.
		For some young New Islanders, the easy-going pace of life on the islands represents an alternative to the more lock-step life they are expected to follow on the mainland.
		With this heritage, the Ogasawara Islands continue to be both Japanese and Micronesian, and both American and Asian.
	www.pacificmagazine.net /issue/2005/03/01/japans-pacific-islands (964 words)

	Bonin Islands - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The largest and principal island is Chichi (formerly Peel Island), c.10 sq mi (30 sq km), the site of Omura, the capital of the group, and Futami-ko (Port Lloyd), the chief harbor.
		The islands were claimed by Japan from the British in 1875 and placed under the Tokyo prefecture in 1880.
		In World War II the islands formed a major Japanese military stronghold until they were occupied by the U.S. navy in 1945.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-boninisl.html (350 words)

	about Ogasawara
		Ogasawara comprises 30 islands with over 2,300 residents living on the two main islands, which are Chichijima and Hahajima.
		Ogasawara is well known for diving, dolphin swimming, whale watching, sea kayaking and more.
		OWA (Ogasawara Whale-watching Association) is open for folks who are keen to learn more about dolphins and whales, with more information about the local marine mammal populations and activities.
	www.ogasawara.or.jp /sea-tac/eng/about_oga.html (408 words)

	How the Japanese of the Edo Period Perceived the _______Ogasawara Islands
		After this, however, the islands were left virtually abandoned for over 180 years until after the opening of relations with the West, when the feudal government dispatched a repossession party with foreign magistrate Mizuno Chikugo no Kami Tadanori at its head in the twelfth month of the first year of the Bunkyuu Era (January 1862).
		As for the exploitation of the “Pilipina” Islands.
		But in the case of the Ogasawara Islands, the lack of Japanese inhabitants and the geographical restriction of long distance, when added to the “closed country” policy, made these deserted islands seem half-way to being a foreign land, so their presence gradually waned in the perception of the feudal government.
	japanese.human.metro-u.ac.jp /kokubun/bonins/04tanaka.htm (9022 words)

	Urban Interface: Human fingerprints all over ...
		In the midst of the high economic growth and the changes of the nation's industrial structure after the war, many small islands were faced with a decline of their primary industries, mainly agriculture and forestry, and also a marked decrease of population.
		A major industry in small islands is the marine industry, but most are very small-scale coastal fishing and fisheries have continued to be a major industry of small islands in Japan, even before the modernization of distribution took place.
		In 1955, remote islands enjoyed a peak in population, but since that time, many remote islands suffered a reduction in population so that the population is now half of the 1955 levels.
	www.gdrc.org /oceans/akiyama.html (1907 words)

	JPRI Occasional Paper No. 15
		Unlike Okinawa, which comprises a group of continental islands that lie on a similar latitude far to the West and more-or-less adjacent to the great continental landmass of China, Ogasawara's islands are either volcanic or coral in origin and lack any ancient history of human settlement or cultivation.
		The question posed by Ogasawara is how to find a formula for 'development' that will cause the islands to prosper and the residents to be employed in profitable and satisfying tasks without bringing about the destruction of the natural assets that made the islands unique in the first place.
		Straddling the island at a point where it is only about 3 kilometers across from east to west, the airport would require that the top 100 meters or so would have to come off Mt. Tsutsuji, the mountain in the center of the island.
	www.jpri.org /publications/occasionalpapers/op15.html (3371 words)

	Evolution and Speciation of Island Plants - Cambridge University Press
		Oceanic island archipelagos are profoundly interesting ecosystems in which to ask questions about evolutionary patterns and processes, and may rightly be considered as one of the best places on earth to seek an understanding of the origin and elaboration of biological diversity.
		This volume brings together contributions covering a range of important issues in contemporary oceanic island plant biology, focusing on patterns and processes in Pacific and other islands (with emphasis on the Bonin, Hawaiian and Juan Fernandez Islands) to provide a stimulating view of the current state of research and a possible agenda for future investigations.
		Evolution of cryptic dioecy in Callincarpa (Verbenaceae) on the Bonin (Ogasawara) Islands N. Kawakubo; 8.
	www.cambridge.org /catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521496535 (580 words)

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		Ogasawara Marine Park was created on 16 October 1972 along with the National Park.
		The Iwojima island was an important battleground in world war II (Sutherland and Britton, 1980).
		When the islands were returned to Japan in 1968 only Chichijima was inhabited by 285 people), largely English speaking descendants of the early settlers.
	www.unep-wcmc.org /sites/pa/1322v.htm (923 words)

	Threatened Pollination Systems in Native Flora of the Ogasawara (Bonin) Islands -- ABE 98 (2): 317 -- Annals of Botany
		Outcrossing and the incidence of dioecism in island floras.
		Kawakubo N. Dioecism of the genus Callicarpa (Verbenaceae) in the Bonin (Ogasawara) Islands.
		Island and mainland pollination ecology of Centrosema virginianum and Opuntia stricta.
	aob.oxfordjournals.org /cgi/content/full/98/2/317 (5547 words)

	eZ Systems -
		The Japanese ignored the existence of foreigners living on these islands to which they themselves had tacitly laid claim earlier, but there were other visitors, as European and American ships, whalers and the like, used to put into port to replenish their supplies.
		Today the islands, which are administratively part of Tokyo, have a sizable floating population of residents who stay for a few years and then return to the mainland.
		Ogasawara was the clan name of a samurai of the 1700s who falsely claimed that one of his ancestors had discovered the islands before Shimaya's time.
	www.asjapan.org /Lectures/2003/Lecture/lecture-2003-02.htm (1632 words)

	Lubee Bat Conservancy :: People, Plants, & Bats :: Regional Conservation Issues :: Japan & Taiwan
		IUCN grading: Vulnerable B1 and 2c (Baillie and Groombridge, 1996) The Bonin Fruit Bat (P. pselaphon) is endemic to the Ogasawara islands (Bonin Islands) where it is found in small numbers on of Haha-jima and Titi-jima, and the Volcano Islands (Kazen-retto) of Iou, Minamiiou and Kitaiou/Hokou (Anon., 1991).
		On the uninhabited islands of Kitaiou (bat population unknown) and Minamiiou (population estimated at a few hundreds in 1982 [Ishii, 1983]) the cause of the population decline is unknown, but development and loss of suitable habitat and food plants have been implicated (Matsumoto, 1978 and 1980).
		Surveys and long term monitoring of the populations on the islands and the degree of threats from hunting and habitat loss are essential.
	www.lubee.org /about-reg-japan.aspx (1021 words)

	Lighthouses of the Izu and Ogasawara Islands
		The Izu Islands are an archipelago of volcanic islands stretching southward from Tokyo Bay.
		Several of the islands, including Izu Oshima, have had recent volcanic activity, and one of them, Miyakejima, had to be evacuated from 2000 to 2005 due to an ongoing eruption.
		Note: Izu Oshima is the largest and northernmost of the islands, lying in the mouth of Sagami Bay and visible from mnay points on the mainland.
	www.unc.edu /~rowlett/lighthouse/izu.htm (1766 words)

	Pacific Magazine: Japan’s ‘Pacific Islands’
		As Isaac Ogasawara explains, doing this separated a number of young people from their parents who stayed in the islands as Japanese citizens.
		For some young New Islanders, the easy-going pace of life on the islands represents an alternative to the more lock-step life they are expected to follow on the mainland.
		With this heritage, the Ogasawara Islands continue to be both Japanese and Micronesian, and both American and Asian.
	www.pacificislands.cc /issue/2005/03/01/japans-pacific-islands (956 words)

	ESRI Map Book Gallery Volume 17: Tourism - Island Map — Hachijojima, Izu, Ogasawara (Bonin) Islands
		Hachijojima is a volcanic island and consists of Mt. Higashi (701 meters) and Mt. Nishi (854 meters).
		The circumference of the island is roughly 59 kilometers, and it covers 62.3 square kilometers.
		This map was created specifically with color contrast to show the beautiful shape of the island, which was created by the volcanic mountains.
	www.esri.com /mapmuseum/mapbook_gallery/volume17/tourism1.html (222 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Ogasawara subtropical moist forests (OC0109)
		The archipelago extends from the island of Mukojima in the North to the Iwo Islands in the South.
		The climate of islands is subtropical, with a marked seasonal temperature variation, ranging from a sea level mean of 18ºC in February to 25ºC in July and August.
		Shizimu (1992) postulates that many of the endemic species found on the islands are relict endemics that evolved in moister conditions when the islands were higher, and orographic precipitation and fog were more common.
	worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/oc/oc0109_full.html (1618 words)

	Ogasawara Islands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The islands were then explored by Japanese samurai Ogasawara Sadayori in 1593, whence comes the name "Ogasawara Islands," though he too did not establish any settlement there.
		Outside of American and British shipyards set up for whaling in 1820-30, the first recorded settlement of the islands was by a number of Hawaiians in 1830, and the descendants of these settlers live on the island today.
		The giant squid (genus Architeuthis) was filmed off the Ogasawara Islands for the first time in the wild on September 27, 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ogasawara_Islands (1696 words)

	The Seattle Times: Travel Outdoors: Dolphin dances, WWII relics in blissful, remote Japanese islands
		Fish stories like these are common in Ogasawara, a refreshingly secluded island chain 600 miles south of Tokyo in the crystal blue heart of the Pacific.
		Occupied by American troops until the Ogasawaras reverted to Japan in 1968, Chichi Jima and Haha Jima are peppered with ruins of Japanese bunkers, armament and American planes.
		Later we swam onto the beautifully remote South Island, an environmental sanctuary devoid of buildings where day-trippers are allowed to admire the views from a central hill, provided they stick to designated paths and do not trample the island's delicate vegetation.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/traveloutdoors/2002670726_chichi11.html (1752 words)

	Ogasawara Islands (Endemic Birds Areas of the world)
		General characteristics The volcanic islands of Ogasawara (or Bonin) lie in the north Pacific Ocean, c.1,000 km south of Honshu (Japan), and south of the Izu Islands (EBA 146; see p. 454 for map).
		Threats and conservation The islands were uninhabited until 1830 but today the human population stands at c.2,000, the result of transmigration from the Japanese mainland and the archipelago has now been widely deforested and cultivated and the natural vegetation destroyed by the grazing of goats (WWF/IUCN 1994—1995, Tomiyama and Susuki 1996).
		Plans to construct a new airport on the island of Anijima (a tiny and relatively intact island 500 m from Chichijima), which could have increased the chance of invasion by additional exotic species (Tomiyama and Suzuki 1996), have been halted but are under consideration for the main island of Chichijima (J. Minton in litt.
	www.birdlife.org /datazone/sites/index.html?action=EbaHTMDetails.asp&sid=147&m=0 (436 words)

	High School Seminar The Floor of the Ocean Rises – British Council Japan (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The rocks of the Ogasawara Islands are called boninites, and are very rare.
		Several million years later, this part of the ocean floor was squeezed between "subduction" coming from the east and "spreading crust" coming from the west.
		This forced a ridge of ocean crust to rise of which the upper parts emerged above sea level as the Ogasawara Islands.
	www.britishcouncil.org /ro/japan-science-scienceseminar-nesbitt-2.htm (160 words)

	Ogasawara Whale Watching
		The Ogasawara Islands is an archipelago of about 30 small rocky islands.
		Ogasawara Whale Watching Association (OWA) was established in March 1989 to help manage and regulate whale watching, and to operate as an information center.
		And about 300 whale fans out of islands are also the general members who receive a newsletter and discounts for their \3,000 annual fee (\500 to join).
	www.h2.dion.ne.jp /~owa/english/e_content.html (680 words)

	The translation below is on theage facing Map 19 in Kondo
		The legend, fictitious, of the discovery of the Bonins by Ogasawara Sadayori was mentioned by Hayashi Shihei in his book carelessly which gave strong proof that the Ogasawara Islands belonged to Japan.
		The expedition to the Ogasawara Islands by Mizuno-chikugonokami was well planned and executed superbly compared to the events that took place around that time.
		The importance of the Bonin Islands in the Modern Times was recognized after the rediscovery of the Islands in 1527 by Captain Beechey.
	nihongo.human.metro-u.ac.jp /~long/bonins/recovery.htm (2915 words)

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		The biggest section of the Main Island is inhabited, normally by 3 kaiju, but sometimes up to 5 with the magnetic wall that prevents the flying kaiju from escaping being over the section.
		The 10th kaiju the inhabits the Main Island is Kumonga, the scientists like to keep Kumonga separated from the rest of the kaiju because his large appetite always gets the best of him and he tries to go after the other kaiju and usually ends up loosing a limb or 4.
		King Kong, altough he hasn't left Faro Island since he and Godzilla fought nearly 40 years ago, is still considered a threat to the world and the U.N.G.C.C. has recreated Mechani Kong to try and capture the original Kong and bring him to one of the Ogasawara Islands.
	www.kaijuhq.org /Island.html (818 words)

	Canon \| Junior Photographers \| Event report 2004
		Six children from Ogasawara Elementary School and Ogasawara Junior High School on the 12th, 20 third-graders and 20 fourth-graders of the same elementary school on the 13th, and 22 fifth-graders on the 14th joined the program.
		Ogasawara Elementary School and Ogasawara Junior High School are situated on subtropical Chichi-Jima Island, 1,000 km south of Tokyo, and approximately 170 children including those at both elementary and secondary schools are on the school register.
		The Ogasawara Islands are considered valuable because nature has been left untouched with varieties of animals and plants that inhabit the islands.
	www.canon.com /scsa/jr_photographers/report/2004/index4.html (686 words)

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