Ōshima

Oshima, Ōshima may refer to:

Places

• Ōshima (大島, lit. "big island") (sorted by prefecture):
  • Nii Ōshima Island, part of Niihama in Ehime Prefecture
  • Ōshima, Ehime, an island connected by the Hakata-Ōshima Bridge and the Kurushima-Kaikyo Bridge
  • Ōshima, Fukuoka, a former village in Munakata District, which became part of the city of Munakata, Fukuoka in 2005
  • Amami Ōshima in Kagoshima Prefecture
  • Ōshima District, Kagoshima
  • Ōshima Subprefecture (Kagoshima)
  • Ōshima, Nagasaki (Kitamatsuura), former village in Kitamatsura district
  • Ōshima, Nagasaki (Nishisonogi), former town in Nishisonogi district
  • Ōshima, Niigata
  • Ōshima Subprefecture (Tokyo)
  • Oshima, Kesennuma (Miyagi), an island off Kesunnuma
  • Izu Ōshima, one of the Izu Islands in Tokyo
  • Ōshima, Toyama, has a volcano
  • Kii Ōshima in Wakayama Prefecture
  • Ōshima District, Yamaguchi, which includes:
    • Ōshima, Yamaguchi, a former town in Oshima District, Yamaguchi, now part of Suō-Ōshima, Yamaguchi
  • Ōshima, Hokkaidō, an island in the Sea of Japan belonging to Matsumae, Hokkaidō
• Oshima (渡島, Oshima):
  • Oshima Subprefecture, a subprefecture of Hokkaidō
  • Oshima Peninsula, the geographical area on which the subprefecture is located

Other

• Japanese gunboat Ōshima - a warship of the early Imperial Japanese Navy
• Not to be confused with Osimo, Italy

People

Ōshima (大島):

• Hiromi Oshima, model and playmate
• Hiroshi Ōshima, Japanese ambassador to Nazi Germany during World War II
• Joun Ōshima, noted Japanese sculptor in the Meiji/Taisho era
• Mai Oshima, AKB48
• Michiru Oshima, a Japanese composer
• Nagisa Oshima, Japanese film director
• Naoto Ōshima, former character designer for SEGA
• Takatō Ōshima, made the first blast furnace and western-style cannons in Japan
• Towa Oshima, manga artist
• Tsutomu Ohshima, martial artist, head of Shotokan Karate of America.
• Yuko Oshima, AKB48

See also

• Ōshima Subprefecture (disambiguation)