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Ōnohara Islands
The are a group of volcano, volcanic deserted islands located in the Philippine Sea approximately south of Tokyo and west of Miyake-jima, in the northern portion of the Izu Islands, Izu archipelago, Japan. The group is also known as from its profile. Geography Ōnohara-jima consists of nine main islets and several smaller rocks and Stack (geology), stacks. The island is the remnant of an andesite lava dome with sheer sides, the only visible portion of a submarine volcanic caldera. The above sea-level portion has a surface area of approximately 0.2 square kilometers, with a summit height of on the main islet of . Located in the Kuroshio Current, the area has abundant sea life, and is popular with sports fishermen and scuba divers. During the Korean War, aircraft of the United States Air Force, US Air Force used Ōnohara-jima as a bombing range, endangering the Japanese murrelet, a rare seabird. The bombing was stopped after Jack Moyer wrote a letter to an associate of then-U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prefectures Of Japan
Japan is divided into 47 prefectures (, ''todōfuken'', ), which rank immediately below the national government and form the country's first level of jurisdiction and administrative division. They include 43 prefectures proper (, ''ken''), two urban prefectures (, '' fu'': Osaka and Kyoto), one " circuit" or "territory" (, '' dō'': Hokkai-dō) and one metropolis (, '' to'': Tokyo). In 1868, the Meiji ''Fuhanken sanchisei'' administration created the first prefectures (urban ''fu'' and rural ''ken'') to replace the urban and rural administrators (''bugyō'', ''daikan'', etc.) in the parts of the country previously controlled directly by the shogunate and a few territories of rebels/shogunate loyalists who had not submitted to the new government such as Aizu/ Wakamatsu. In 1871, all remaining feudal domains ''( han)'' were also transformed into prefectures, so that prefectures subdivided the whole country. In several waves of territorial consolidation, today's 47 prefecture ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
