BONIN ISLANDS

bōˈnīn, Jap. Ogasawara-gunto, volcanic island group, c.40 sq mi (100 sq km), in the W Pacific Ocean, c.500 mi (800 km) S of Tokyo; part of Tokyo prefecture, Japan. 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 principal products are timber and fruit, such as bananas and pineapples. The majority of the inhabitants are Japanese; there are some Koreans and Taiwanese. 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. The islands were administered by the U.S. military until 1968, when they were returned to Japan.

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books on: Bonin Islands  - 465 results

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Radio Drama in Action: Twenty-Five Plays of a Changing World
Includes: Columbus Day; Will This Earth Hold?; The Battle of the Warsaw Ghetto; Mister Ledford and the TVA; Open Letter on Race Hatred; Bretton Woods; The Last Day of the War; A Child Is Born; The Halls of Congress; Radioman Jack Cooper; Concerning the Red Army; Inside a Kid's Head; London by Clipper; Japanese-Americans; The Lonesome Train; The "Boise"; Grandpa and the Statue; Booker T. Washington in Atlanta; North Atlantic Testament; Typhus; Pacific Task Force; Against the Storm; The Negro Domestic; Japan's Advance Base: The Bonin Islands; The House I Live In
Book by Erik Barnouw; Rinehart, 1945
Subjects: Radio Plays
...and Japans Advance Base: The Bonin Islands by Arnold Marquis Oboler...JAPANS ADVANCE BASE: THE BONIN ISLANDS 369 Arnold...peoples bridging the Aleutian Islands; and perhaps even . . . WELLES...
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Japan's Islands of Mystery
Book by Willard Price; John Day Company, 1944
Subjects: Japan--Colonies, Micronesia--Description And Travel
...white cuff! We pass among the brawny islands called the Bonins or Ogasawara. We...meaning "empty of men," of which name Bonin appears to be a corruption. Their strategic...them for George IV. But the boss of the islands was for many years an American. His name...
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World War II Pacific Island Guide: A Geo-Military Study
Book by Gordon L. Rottman; Greenwood Press, 2002
Subjects: Islands Of The Pacific--Strategic Aspects, Military Geography--Pacific Area, World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Pacific Ocean, World War, 1939-1945--United States
...Military geography-Pacific Area. 3. Islands of the Pacific-Strategic aspects. 4. World...Theater 1 The Pacific Ocean 1 The Islands 5 Population and Political Dynamics...Southwest Pacific Area 21 Part III: The Islands 31 1 Central and Southern Pacific...
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Mammals of the Pacific World
Book by T. D. Carter, J. E. Hill, G. H. H. Tate; Macmillan, 1945
Subjects: Mammals--Australia, Mammals--Islands Of The Pacific, Marine Mammals--Pacific Ocean
...Asia; they occur north to Japan and the Bonin Islands and east to the Caroline Islands and Samoa. They are unknown on the Marshall...widespread of the fruit bats in the western Pacific islands, extending north to southern Japan and as...
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Creating an American Lake: United States Imperialism and Strategic Security in the Pacific Basin, 1945-1947
Book by Hal M. Friedman; Greenwood Press, 2001
Subjects: Cold War, Imperialism--History--20th Century, National Security--United States, Pacific Area--Foreign Relations--United States, Pacific Area--Strategic Aspects, Pacific Islands (Trust Territory)--Strategic Aspects, United States--Foreign Relations--1945-1953, United States--Foreign Relations--Pacific Area
...Mandated Islands, this included the Bonin Islands, the Gilbert Islands now Kiribati...Marcus Island, Chichi Jima in the Bonin Islands, Formosa, and Shanghai, China...control over Micronesia and the Bonin Islands as the minimum necessary for postwar...
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Signs of Origin: Victor Hugo's Bug-Jargal
Journal article by Kathrine M. Bonin; Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Vol. 36, 2008
Subjects: Bug-Jargal (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation, Hugo, Victor--Criticism and interpretation, Hugo, Victor--Works, Novelists--Criticism and interpretation, Novelists--Works, Novels--Criticism and interpretation
...Jargal. by Kathrine M. Bonin Critics do not agree on...the power and prestige of the islands white population. Though it...Saint-Domingue Revolution." Islands and Exiles: The Creole Identities...1818 and 1826). Kathrine M. Bonin Tarrant County College SE Department...
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The Role of Seabirds in Hawaiian Subsistence: Implications for Interpreting Avian Extinction and Extirpation in Polynesia
Journal article by Jadelyn J. Moinz; Asian Perspectives: the Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific, Vol. 36, 1997
Subjects: Animal remains (Archaeology)--Analysis, Birds--Extinction, Exotic birds--History, Hawaii--History
...on the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands and offshore islands. Unlike the Bonin petrel, wedgetailed shearwaters do nest in the main...nests only on the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, the Bonin Islands, and the Volcano Islands (Berger 1981:48). Pterodroma...
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China's Strategic Modernization: The Russian Connection
Journal article by Michael J. Barron; Parameters, Vol. 31, 2001
Subjects: China. People's Liberation Army--Finance, China--Military aspects, Chinese foreign relations--Russia, Deng Xiaoping--Military policy, Putin, Vladimir--International relations, Russia, Russian foreign relations--China, Weapons--Contracts
...water"--this extends out to the second island chain starting in the north at the Bonin Islands and moving southward through the Marianas, Guam, and the Caroline Islands. China is striving, through its modernization program, to have a "green water...
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Playing in the Bush League: The Rookie and the Baseball Presidency
Journal article by Frank Ardolino; Nine, Vol. 12, 2003
...fifty-eight combat missions; on September 2, 1944, his plane was hit by antiaircraft fire over Chichi Jima, one of the Bonin Islands. His two crewmen were killed, and he was rescued by a submarine after bailing out and drifting in a raft. For his bravery...
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Relations among Map Objects in Cartographic Generalization
Journal article by Stefan Steiniger, Robert Weibel; Cartography and Geographic Information Science, Vol. 34, 2007
Subjects: Automation--Influence, Cartography--Terminology, Digital mapping--Evaluation, Map printing--Evaluation, Maps--Evaluation, Maps--Reproduction, Mechanization--Influence, Topographic maps--Evaluation
...CD-ROM. Buttenfield, B.P. 1985. Treatment of the cartographic line. Cartographica 22(2): 1-26. Chesneau, E., A. Ruas, and O. Bonin. 2005. Colour contrasts analysis for a better legibility of graphic signs on risk maps. Proceedings of XXII Int. Cartographic...
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The Nature of Midway Atoll
Magazine article by Lloyd Mccarthy, Mary Mccarthy; PSA Journal, Vol. 65, February 1999
Subjects: Midway Islands--History, Photography--Usage
...thousands of burrow-nesting Wedge-tailed Shearwaters and Bonin Petrels. The Bonin Petrel has a distinctive raucous call as it hones in...nesting Petrels and Albatross. Studies have revealed that Bonin Petrels are just as likely to be incubating a golf...
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Ghosts! Haunting Photographs of Museum Specimens Tell the Tale of Vanished Island Species
Magazine article; International Wildlife, January 2000
Subjects: Extinct birds--Collections and collecting
...natures balance almost overnight. "All are obviously dead," Purcell says of her ghosts, "but how these dead can dance!" Bonin Islands - Grosbeak In the 1820s, these 8-inch finches found on Peel Island south of Japan fed on fruits and buds in the forests...
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The Evergreen State's Battleship Extraordinaire: USS Washington
Magazine article by Sydney Van Halen; Sea Classics, Vol. 40, May 2007
...while Adm. Mitschers Task Force bombed installations on Iwo Jima, Volcano Islands, and Chichi Jima and Haba Jima in the Bonin Islands, Marines were landed on Saipan under cover of intensive Naval gunfire and carrier based aircraft. Following the US...
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The Mandate for Yap
Magazine article by David Geddes; History Today, Vol. 43, December 1993
Subjects: United Kingdom--History, 1900-, World War, 1914-1918--Territorial questions, Yap--History
...Washington, the cable from Tokyo to the Bonin Islands - a part of Japans trans-Pacific linkage - was cut just near the Bonin Islands. Owing to weather conditions, so...one does wonder who cut the Tokyo-Bonin cable. FOR FURTHER READING...
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Admiral Raymond Spruance: the Hit-first Warrior
Magazine article by Mike Coppock; Sea Classics, Vol. 41, May 2008
...1944. Mitscher was sent on a diversionary attack on the Bonin Islands four-days later hoping to take some of the pressure...that position, they began blowing craters into that islands landing strips. Mid-morning, Mitscher launched 450...
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Your Week Ahead
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), July 19, 2009
...To witness it, though, youll need to be in Northern India or Central China. Or in a boat, about 100km south of the Bonin Islands, close to the Japanese archipelago. Too far for you to travel? Fear not. Though you may not be able to witness the...
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Your Week Ahead with Jonathan Cainer
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), July 18, 2009
Subjects: Eclipses, Eclipses (Astronomy)
...To witness it, though, youll need to be in Northern India or Central China. Or in a boat, about 100km south of the Bonin Islands. Too far for you to travel? Fear not. Though you may not be able to witness the spectacle, youll feel the power of...
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Giant Squid Filmed for the First Time
Newspaper article; Coventry Evening Telegraph (England), September 28, 2005
...Museum in Tokyo, tracked the 25-foot long Architeuthis as it attacked prey at 2,700 feet deep off the coast of Japans Bonin islands. "We believe this is the first time a grown giant squid has been captured on camera in its natural habitat," said Kyoichi...
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Salute to Heroes of World War II Veterans Finally Get Recognition with Monument in Washington, D.C
Newspaper article by Matt Paolelli; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), May 30, 2004
...1944, Gibson earned a cross by blowing up an enemy supply ship - one of three ships destroyed by his squadron in the Bonin Islands. "I actually found a picture that says its from that date and it shows the three ships blown up in the harbor," Chris...
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Area Veterans Attend Dedication
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), May 30, 2004
...Cross for blowing up airfield at Kazon Airfield; blew up a enemy supply ship, and the group blew a total of three at Bonin Islands. Reserve duty for 15 years; flight instructor at Glenview Naval Air Station. He attended the ceremony with 18 relatives...
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encyclopedia articles on: Bonin Islands  - 4 results

 
 
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Bonin Islands
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
BONIN ISLANDS bo nin, Jap. Ogasawara-gunto, volcanic...there are some Koreans and Taiwanese. The islands were claimed by Japan from the British...prefecture in 1880. In World War II the islands formed a major Japanese military stronghold...
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Peel Island
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
PEEL ISLAND Japan: see Bonin Islands . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Ogasawara-Gunto
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
OGASAWARA-GUNTO see Bonin Islands . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Japan
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Islands , Taiwan , the Pescadores , Korea , the Bonin Islands , the Kwantung protectorate in Manchuria, and the island...mandates from the League of Nations (the Caroline Islands , Marshall Islands , and Mariana Islands (see Northern...


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