Chichijima (redirect from Chichi Jima)
Chichijima (父島) means "Father Island". It is sometimes written Chichi Jima or Chichi-jima and is also sometimes incorrectly read as Chichishima or Chichitō...
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Chichijima incident (redirect from Japanese Cannibalism in Chichi-jima)
occurred in late 1944. Japanese soldiers killed eight American airmen on Chichi Jima, in the Bonin Islands, and cannibalized four of them. Nine American pilots...
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reinforcements were sent to Iwo Jima: 500 men from the naval base at Yokosuka and 500 from Chichi Jima reached Iwo Jima during March and April 1944. At...
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Chichi-jima (pop. about 2300) and Haha-jima (pop. about 500). The administration and village hall is located in the village of Omura on Chichi-jima....
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however concluded: There were nuclear weapons on Chichi Jima and Iwo Jima (Iwo To)... Chichi Jima, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa were under U.S. occupation, that...
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although a small colony of Europeans and Americans was established at Chichi-jima. Japan began colonizing the islands in 1853, claimed them in 1861, then...
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volcanic islands of Iwo Jima and Chichi Jima which were wiped out by American forces from February to March 1945 in Battle of Iwo Jima. The structure of the...
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'Front Island'), formerly The Ears Chichi-jima Group (父島列島 Chichi-jima Rettō), formerly the Beechey Group Chichi-jima (父島, lit. 'Father Island'), formerly...
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renewed combat operations on 3–4 July with a series of attacks on Iwo Jima and Chichi Jima. On 6 July, the warship resumed strikes in the Marianas and continued...
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cannibalism of five of eight American POWs on the Pacific island of Chichi-jima, one of the Ogasawara Islands (Bonin Islands). This event is now known...
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series. It was found only on Chichi-jima in the Ogasawara Islands. While reports that it was also found on islands of the Haha-jima group (母島列島, known as "Baily...
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wood pigeon (Columba versicolor) was a pigeon endemic to Nakodo-jima and Chichi-jima in the Ogasawara Islands, south of Japan. It is known from four recorded...
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ENJU, HOKKAI, KYUSHU, SHOGEN, and UNKAI No.7 are sunk north west of Chichi Jima, as well as IJN LST T-133 off Okinawa. "T.103 Class Landing Ships". combinedfleet...
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earthquake which struck offshore Japan 189 km (117 mi) west northwest of Chichi-jima in the Ogasawara Islands on May 30 at a depth of 664.0 km (412.6 mi)...
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the genus Cichlopasser. The only place where this bird was found was Chichi-jima in the Ogasawara Islands; it might conceivably have inhabited Anijima...
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Cincinnati Zoo in 1914. Bonin wood pigeon, Columba versicolor (Nakodo-jima and Chichi-jima, Ogasawara Islands, c. 1890) Ryukyu wood pigeon, Columba jouyi (Okinawa...
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within caves on Chichi Jima. The Johnson administration gradually realized that it would be forced to return Chichi Jima and Iwo Jima "to delay reversion...
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Islands include, from north to south, Chichi-jima, Nishinoshima, Haha-jima, Kita Iwo Jima, Iwo Jima, and Minami Iwo Jima. Ogasawara also administers two small...
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Battle of Iwo Jima due to a submarine attack on his ship's convoy, and was subsequently stationed on Chichi-jima, 150 miles north of Iwo Jima. American forces...
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Tadamichi Kuribayashi (category Battle of Iwo Jima)
Marine Corps dubbed, "The Gorge." Major Yoshitaka Hori, who commanded the Chichi Jima radio station, later recalled, "General Kuribayashi commanded his battle...
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this threat while another force attacked Japanese air bases on Iwo Jima and Chichi Jima, in the Bonin and Volcano Islands, bases for potential enemy air...
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as needs dictated. Raids against island strong points such as Iwo Jima or Chichi Jima might be undertaken by one or two task groups, but when a major operation...
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(東京都立小笠原高等学校, Tōkyō Toritsu Ogasawara Kōtōgakkō) is a public high school on Chichi-jima in Ogasawara, Tokyo, Japan. The school is a part of the Tokyo Metropolitan...
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accelerated over open waters, the system brushed the islands of Iwo Jima and Chichi-jima before transitioning into an extratropical cyclone on June 1. The...
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Americans, British, and Hawaiians who all eventually settled in Ōgiura, Chichi-jima. After a shift in power and the death of Matteo Mazzaro, Savory became...
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USS Hancock (CV-19) (section Iwo Jima and Okinawa)
planes hit the enemy naval bases at Chichi Jima and Haha Jima on 19 February, as part of a raid to isolate Iwo Jima from air and sea support during American...
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habitat for the first time. The video footage, shot in deep water off Chichi-jima in the northern Pacific Ocean, shows T. danae emitting blinding flashes...
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USS Biloxi (section Battle of Iwo Jima)
following morning, while preparing for a bombardment mission against Ani and Chichi Jima, a Japanese "Betty" closed from the stern and passed over the light cruiser...
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Battle of Iwo Jima, some 150 miles away, when United States warplanes bombed the small communications outpost on Chichi Jima. While Iwo Jima had Japanese...
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Nakōdo-jima or Nakadachi-jima (媒島, lit. 'Matchmaker Island'); Kita-no-jima (北の島 or 北島, lit. 'Northern Island'); Mae-jima – formerly the Ears; Chichi-jima Group...
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