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Plume in ocean off Iwoto Island

OGASAWARA, Japan, Nov. 7 Kyodo - Video taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Oct. 30, 2023, shows a column of steam rising from the waters off Iwoto Island, previously known as Iwojima, in the Pacific Ocean on Nov. 7, 2023. A new island of 100 meters in diameter, formed by masses of rock spewed from the plumes, is seen near the steam.

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Man seeks to rid isle of feral cats to protect rare birds

TOKYO, Japan - Kenji Kuniyoshi changes baits in a gin trap set up to capture feral cats on Chichijima island in the Ogasawara Islands chain in the Pacific far to the south of Japan on Dec. 7, 2014, to protect rare local birds.

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Man strives to save albatrosses on S. Pacific isle

TOKYO, Japan - Koji Nitta, an Environment Ministry official, speaks about his work protecting albatrosses on Tori-shima (literally Bird Island), an uninhabited Japanese island in the Pacific Ocean, in this file photo taken on Nov. 17, 2014. The big seabirds are listed as an endangered species.

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U.S. flag raised on Iwojima shown to press

QUANTICO, Virginia - A new U.S. Marines museum to be opened in Quantico, Virginia, in November held a press preview on Oct. 13, displaying one of the most famous Stars and Stripes flags in the country's history. The flag was raised on Mt. Suribachi on Iwojima Island in 1945 after fierce fighting on the Pacific isle between U.S. and Japanese forces during the closing days of World War II.

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Japan plans to put lighthouse on disputed Pacific isle

TOKYO, Japan - The Japan Coast Guard has decided to build a lighthouse on Okinotori Island (photo taken in April 2005), Japan's southernmost island, government officials said Aug. 25. China disputes Japan's territorial claim, saying Okinotori is not an island but merely a rock.

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Japan plans to put lighthouse on disputed Pacific isle

TOKYO, Japan - The Japan Coast Guard has decided to build a lighthouse on Okinotori Island (photo taken in April 2005), Japan's southernmost island, government officials said Aug. 25. China disputes Japan's territorial claim, saying Okinotori is not an island but merely a rock. (Kyodo)

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Photo showing man, possibly first Japanese to live in U.S., found

Janice Hodson, curator of the New Bedford Free Public Library in the U.S. state of Massachusetts, shows a photo of a man who could be Nakahama Manjiro (L), the first Japanese known to have lived in the United States, with a Caucasian man, who could be William Whitfield. Whitfield was the skipper of a U.S. whaling ship that rescued Nakahama, better known as John Manjiro, and a few other fisherman colleagues when their fishing boat became stranded on an uninhabited isle in the Pacific Ocean in 1841. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Photo showing man, possibly first Japanese to live in U.S., found

Janice Hodson, curator of the New Bedford Free Public Library in the U.S. state of Massachusetts, shows a photo of a man who could be Nakahama Manjiro (L), the first Japanese known to have lived in the United States, with a Caucasian man, who could be William Whitfield, on April 11, 2015. Whitfield was the skipper of a U.S. whaling ship that rescued Nakahama, better known as John Manjiro, and a few other fisherman colleagues when their fishing boat became stranded on an uninhabited isle in the Pacific Ocean in 1841. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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U.S. flag raised on Iwojima shown to press

QUANTICO, Virginia - A new U.S. Marines museum to be opened in Quantico, Virginia, in November held a press preview on Oct. 13, displaying one of the most famous Stars and Stripes flags in the country's history. The flag was raised on Mt. Suribachi on Iwojima Island in 1945 after fierce fighting on the Pacific isle between U.S. and Japanese forces during the closing days of World War II. (Kyodo)

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Man strives to save albatrosses on S. Pacific isle

TOKYO, Japan - Koji Nitta, an Environment Ministry official, speaks about his work protecting albatrosses on Tori-shima (literally Bird Island), an uninhabited Japanese island in the Pacific Ocean, in this file photo taken on Nov. 17, 2014. The big seabirds are listed as an endangered species. (Kyodo)

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Japan to protest China survey near southern isle

TOKYO, Japan - Sources said May 9 Japan plans to officially protest China's continued oceanographic surveying in Japan's exclusive economic zone around Okinotori Island in the Pacific (photo taken in 1999 and provided by the land ministry). (Kyodo)