List of islands of Japan
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The List of islands of Japan begins with its four main islands. The general shape of the island grouping looks like the body of a dragon with its head erect.[1]
Japan's main island is Honshu. There are also many smaller islands.
List of smaller islands of Japan [edit]
Japan has 6,000+ smaller islands and 430+ are inhabited.[4]
Hokkaido [edit]
- Kamome Island
- Ko Island (Oshima)
- Ōshima
- Okushiri Island
- Teuri Island
- Rebun Island
- Rishiri Island[5]
- Yagishiri Island
Islands off Honshu in the Sea of Japan [edit]
Islands in Tokyo Bay (artificial islands) [edit]
- Dream Island (Yume No Shima)
- Odaiba
- Sarushima (natural)
- Jonan Island ja:城南島
- Heiwa Island ja:平和島
- Showa Island ja:昭和島
- Keihin Island ja:京浜島
- Tokyo International Airport
- Katsushima ja:勝島
- Hakkeijima ja:横浜・八景島シーパラダイス
- Higashi Ogijima ja:東扇島
- Wakasu (若洲)
- Oogishima, ja:扇島
Islands in Osaka Bay (artificial islands) [edit]
- Maishima, ja:舞洲
- Yumeshima, ja:夢洲
- Sakishima, ja:咲洲
- Kansai International Airport
- Kobe Airport
- Port Island
- Rokko Island
- Minami Ashiyahama, ja:南芦屋浜
- Wakayama Marina City ja:和歌山マリーナシティ
- Nishinomiyahama ja:西宮浜
Islands in Ise Bay [edit]
- Chūbu Centrair International Airport (artificial island)
- Kami-shima
- Kashiko Island
- Kozukumi Island
- Mikimoto Pearl Island
- Ōzukumi-jima
Islands in the Pacific Ocean [edit]
- Izu Islands[8]
- Ogasawara Islands[13]
- Chichi[13]
- Haha[13]
- Iwo[13]
- Minami Torishima (Marcus Island)
- Okino Torishima (Parece Vela)
- Enoshima
Islands around Kyushu [edit]
Most of these are located in the East China Sea.
Ryukyu Islands (Nansei-shotō) [edit]
Satsunan Islands [edit]
The northern half is administratively part of Kagoshima Prefecture and Kyushu.
Ōsumi Islands [edit]
The North-Eastern Group:
The North-Western Group:
Tokara Islands [edit]
The Shichi-tō:
- Kuchinoshima
- Nakanoshima (Kagoshima)
- Gajajima
- Suwanosejima
- Akusekijima
- Tairajima
- Kodakarajima
- Takarajima
Amami Islands [edit]
Ryukyu Islands (Ryūkyū-shotō) [edit]
The Southern Half, Okinawa Prefecture
Okinawa Islands [edit]
The Central Group or Ryukyu proper:
- Okinawa Island[6]
- Kumejima
- Iheyajima
- Izenajima
- Agunijima
- Iejima
- Iwo Tori Shima (Iōtorishima) [1]
- Kerama Islands
- Daitō Islands
Sakishima Islands [edit]
Also known as the Further Isles:
- Miyako Islands
- Yaeyama Islands
- Senkaku Islands (disputed by China)
Islands in the Inland Sea [edit]
- Kasaoka Islands
- Takashima Island (Okayama) 高島 (岡山県笠岡市)
- Shiraishi Island
- Kitagi Island, 北木島
- Obishi Island, 大飛島
- Kobi Island, 小飛島
- Manabe Island, 真鍋島
- Mushima Island (Okayama), 六島 (岡山県)
- Shiwaku Islands
- Awaji[7]
- Etajima
- Itsukushima (popularly known as "Miyajima")
- Shōdoshima
- Suō-Ōshima, Yamaguchi
Islands in lakes [edit]
- Daikon-island
- Bentenjima in Lake Toya
- Bentenjima in Lake Hamana
Other artificial islands [edit]
- Chūbu Centrair International Airport
- Dejima[6]
- New Kitakyushu Airport
- Midori No Shima, off Hakodate, ja:緑の島 (artificial)
- Malimpia Okinosu ja:マリンピア沖洲 (artificial)
- Wakaejima ja:和賀江島 (artificial)
- Island City, Fukuoka ja:アイランドシティ (artificial)
Claims but does not control [edit]
The Northern Territories [edit]
There are the four disputed Kuril Islands, also known as the Chishima Islands.[15] See also Kuril Island conflict.
Others [edit]
- Liancourt Rocks (Dokdo/Takeshima) - occupied by South Korea.
See also [edit]
References [edit]
- ^ a b c Imperial Japanese Commission to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. (1903). Japan in the Beginning of the 20th century (Haruki Yamawaki, editor), p. 2.
- ^ Imperial Japanese Commission, pp. 3-4.
- ^ Imperial Japanese Commission, pp. 2-3.
- ^ Look Japan, Vol. 43, Issues 493-504, p. 35; retrieved 2013-3-2.
- ^ Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Rishiri-tō" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 791.
- ^ a b c d Ponsonby-Fane, Richard. (1962). Sovereign and Subject, p. 332.
- ^ a b c d e Ponsonby-Fane, p. 331.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Nussbaum, "Izu Shotō" at p. 412.
- ^ Gotoh, H. et al. (2010). "Infrastructure Maintenance and Disaster Prevention Measures on Isolated Islands: the Case of the Izu Islands near Tokyo" in Island Sustainability (Favro, S., editor), p. 187.
- ^ Nussbaum, p. 412; Ponsonby-Fane, p. 332.
- ^ Nussbaum, "Ōshima" at p. 761.
- ^ Nussbaum, "Torishima" at p. 987.
- ^ a b c d Nussbaum, "Ogasawara Guntō" at p. 737.
- ^ Nussbaum, "Hashima" at p. 294.
- ^ Imperial Japanese Commission, p. 3.
