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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 that breeds on Ōnohara-jima. The bombing was stopped after Jack Moyer wrote a let ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prefectures Of Japan
Japan is divided into 47 prefectures (, , ), which rank immediately below the national government and form the country's first level of jurisdiction and Administrative divisions of Japan, administrative division. They include 43 prefectures proper (, ''Prefectures of Japan#Ken, ken''), two Fu (administrative division), urban prefectures (, ''Prefectures of Japan#Fu, fu'': Osaka Prefecture, Osaka and Kyoto Prefecture, Kyoto), one regional prefecture (, ''Prefectures of Japan#Dō, dō'': Hokkaido, Hokkaidō) and one metropolis (, ''Prefectures of Japan#To, to'': Tokyo). In 1868, the Meiji Restoration, 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 Tenryō, 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 domain, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
