Minamitorishima
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Minamitorishima, sometimes known as Minami-Tori-shima or Minami-Torishima and also known as Marcus Island, is an isolated Japanese coral atoll in the northwestern Pacific Ocean. It is the easternmost
An aerial photo of Minamitorishima in 1987
Minamitorishima under attack on 31 August 1943
Minamitorishima in 1975
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
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…Kiozaemon Saito, in 1879. On 30 June 1886, Japanese explorer Shinroku Mizutani (水谷新六, 1850–1921) led a group of 46 colonists from Haha-jima in the Bonin Islands to settle on Marcus Island. The settlement was named "Mizutani" after the leader of the expedition. The Empire of Japan officially annexed the island…
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