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Chichijima (父島) is the
largest and most
populous island in the ****anese
archipelago of
Bonin or
Ogasawara Islands.
Chichijima is
about 240 km (150 mi)...
- The
Chichijima incident (also
known as the
Ogasawara incident)
occurred in late 1944. ****anese
soldiers killed eight American airmen on
Chichi Jima, in...
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kilometers (32 sq mi) but only two of the
islands are
permanently inhabited,
Chichijima and Hahajima. Together,
their po****tion was 2,560 as of 2021. Administratively...
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commander of the ****anese
garrison in
Chichijima,
Ogasawara Islands, and was
later tried and
executed for the
Chichijima incident, a war
crime involving torture...
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Chichijima Airfield (父島飛行場,
Chichijima Hikōjō) (ICAO: RJAO) is an
airfield on the
island of Chichi-jima in ****an. It has a
landing slope facility for flying...
- Sakaigatake, 443
metres (1,453 ft). It is part of an
archipelago that
includes Chichijima approximately 50 km (31 mi) to the
north and the
nearby smaller islands...
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about 130 km to the west of the
nearest inhabited Ogasawara islands,
Chichijima Island,
hence the name; the
other Ogasawara island groups are aligned...
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unincorporated before, two on
Chichijima, two on Hahajima, and one on Iwojima. Ōmura (大村) on
Chichijima Ōgimura-****urosawa (扇村袋沢村) on
Chichijima Kitamura (北村) on Hahajima...
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support for
emergency medical air
transportation from the
Bonin Islands (
Chichijima and Hahajima) to Honshu. The base is
occasionally used as a
relay point...
- Europeans,
White Americans, Polynesians, and
Kanaks who
settled Hahajima and
Chichijima in the 19th century. The
first do****ented
instance of
human occupation...
