Bonin Islands
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The Bonin Islands, also known as the Ogasawara Islands, are a Japanese archipelago of over 30 subtropical and tropical islands located around 1,000 kilometers SSE of Tokyo and 1,600 kilometers northwe
A village in the Bonins during the early Shōwa period
A man at a well, alongside buildings with the thatched roofs, weather-beaten unpainted sides and paper partitions and windows, characteristic of the islands before World War II
Kominato beach and Kopepe Beach, Chichi-jima
A Bonin petrel
Bonin Islanders
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The Bonin Islanders, also known as the Ogasawara Islanders or Ōbeikei tōmin in Japanese, are a Euronesian ethnic group native to the Bonin Islands. They are culturally and genetically distinct from ot
Bonin Islands
…Hawaiian colonists arrived from the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1830. Subsequently, Meiji Japan successfully colonized and reclaimed the islands in 1875, but Bonin Islanders' community continued up to World War II, when most islanders were forcibly relocated to Honshu. Following Japan's defeat, the US Navy occupied the…
The Gonsales family, one of the earliest families on the Bonin Islands, sometime in the first half of the 20th century