List of islands of Japan
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List of islands of Japan may be grouped by type or location. Japan is a country of islands.[1]
Main islands [change]
Japan has four main islands running from north to south. The general shape of the island grouping looks like the body of a dragon with its head erect.[2]
List of smaller islands of Japan [change]
Japan has 6,000+ smaller islands and 430+ are inhabited.[1]
Hokkaido [change]
- Kamome Island
- Ko Island (Oshima)
- Ōshima
- Okushiri Island
- Teuri Island
- Rebun Island
- Rishiri Island[5]
- Yagishiri Island
Islands in Sea of Japan [change]
Islands in Tokyo Bay [change]
- Dream Island (Yume No Shima)
- Odaiba
- Sarushima (natural)
- Jonan Island
- Heiwa Island
- Showa Island
- Keihin Island
- Tokyo International Airport
- Katsushima
- Hakkeijima
- Higashi Ogijima
- Wakasu (若洲)
- Oogishima
Islands in Osaka Bay [change]
- Maishima
- Yumeshima
- Sakishima
- Kansai International Airport (artificial island)
- Kobe Airport
- Port Island
- Rokko Island
- Minami Ashiyahama
- Wakayama Marina City
- Nishinomiyahama
Islands in Ise Bay [change]
- Chūbu Centrair International Airport (artificial island)
- Kamishima
- Kashiko Island
- Kozukumijima
- Mikimoto Pearl Island
- Ozukumijima
Islands in Pacific Ocean [change]
- Izu Islands[7]
- Ogasawara Islands[12]
- Chichi Island[12]
- Haha Island[12]
- Muko Island[12]
- Yome Island[12]
- Iwo Jima[12]
- Minamitorishima (Marcus Island)
- Okinotorishima (Parece Vela)
- Enoshima
Islands near Kyūshū [change]
Most of these are in the East China Sea.
- Hiroshina
- Amakusa
- Gotō Islands[13]
- Hirado Island[14]
- Hashima Island
- Iki Island[15]
- Koshiki Island
- Tsushima Islands[15]
Nansei Islands [change]
Satsunan Islands [change]
The northern half is administratively part of Kagoshima Prefecture and Kyūshū.
Ōsumi Islands [change]
The North-Eastern Group:
The North-Western Group:
Tokara Islands [change]
The Shichi-tō:
- Kuchinoshima
- Nakanoshima (Kagoshima)
- Gajajima
- Suwanosejima
- Akusekijima
- Tairajima
- Kodakarajima
- Takarajima
Amami Islands [change]
- Amami Ōshima
- Kikaijima
- Kakeromajima
- Yoroshima
- Ukeshima
- Tokunoshima
- Okinoerabu Island[17]
- Yoron Island[17]
Ryukyu Islands [change]
The Southern Half, Okinawa Prefecture
Okinawa Islands [change]
The Central Group or Ryukyu proper:
- Okinawa[17]
- Kume Island[17]
- Iheya Island[17]
- Izena Island[17]
- Aguni Island[17]
- Ie Island[17]
- Iwo Tori Shima (Iōtorishima) [1]
- Kerama Islands[17]
- Daitō Islands
Sakishima Islands [change]
Also known as the Further Isles:
- Miyako Islands
- Yaeyama Islands[18]
- Senkaku Islands (disputed by PRC and ROC)
Islands in Seto Inland Sea [change]
- 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 Island[2]
- Etajima
- Itsukushima (popularly known as "Miyajima")
- Shōdoshima
- Suō-Ōshima, Yamaguchi
Islands in lakes [change]
- Chikubu Island
- Daikon-island
- Bentenjima in Lake Toya
- Bentenjima in Lake Hamana
Other artificial islands [change]
- Chūbu Centrair International Airport
- Dejima[14]
- New Kitakyushu Airport
- Midori No Shima, off Hakodate
- Malimpia Okinosu
- Wakaejima
- Island City, Fukuoka
Claims but does not control [change]
The Northern Territories [change]
These are the four disputed Kuril Islands, also known as the Chishima Islands.[15]
Others [change]
- Liancourt Rocks (Takeshima/Dokdo) - occupied by South Korea.
Related pages [change]
References [change]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Look Japan, Vol. 43, Issues 493-504, p. 35; retrieved 2013-3-2.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 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.
- ↑ Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Rishiri-tō" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 791.
- ↑ Nussbaum, "Oki no Shima" at p. 747.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.6 7.7 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.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 12.5 Nussbaum, "Ogasawara Guntō" at p. 737.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Ponsonby-Fane, Richard. (1962). Sovereign and Subject, pp. 331.
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Ponsonby-Fane, p. 332.
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 Imperial Japanese Commission, p. 3.
- ↑ Nussbaum, "Yakushima" at p. 1035.
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 17.3 17.4 17.5 17.6 17.7 17.8 Nussbaum, "Ryūkyū Islands" at p. 801.
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 18.3 Nussbaum, "Yaeyama-shotō" at p. 1034.
