List of islands of Japan
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The List of islands of Japan may be grouped by type or location. Japan is a country of islands.[1]
Main islands
[change | change source]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 | change source]Japan has 6,000+ smaller islands and people live on 430+ of these islands.[1]
Hokkaido
[change | change source]- Kamome Island
- Ko Island (Oshima)
- Ōshima
- Okushiri Island
- Teuri Island
- Rebun Island
- Rishiri Island[5]
- Yagishiri Island
Islands in Sea of Japan
[change | change source]Islands in Tokyo Bay
[change | change source]- 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 | change source]- 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 | change source]- Chūbu Centrair International Airport (artificial island)
- Kamishima
- Kashiko Island
- Kozukumijima
- Mikimoto Pearl Island
- Ozukumijima
Islands in Pacific Ocean
[change | change source]- 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 | change source]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]
The northern half is administratively part of Kagoshima Prefecture and Kyūshū.
The North-Eastern Group:
The North-Western Group:
The Shichi-tō:
- Kuchinoshima
- Nakanoshima (Kagoshima)
- Gajajima
- Suwanosejima
- Akusekijima
- Tairajima
- Kodakarajima
- Takarajima
- Amami Ōshima
- Kikaijima
- Kakeromajima
- Yoroshima
- Ukeshima
- Tokunoshima
- Okinoerabu Island[17]
- Yoron Island[17]
The Southern Half, Okinawa Prefecture
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
Also known as the Further Isles:
- Miyako Islands
- Yaeyama Islands[18]
- Senkaku Islands (disputed by PRC and ROC)
Islands in Seto Inland Sea
[change | change source]- 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 )
- Takashima Island (Okayama)
- Shiwaku Islands
- Awaji Island[2]
- Etajima
- Itsukushima (popularly known as "Miyajima")
- Shōdoshima
- Suō-Ōshima, Yamaguchi
Islands in lakes
[change | change source]- Chikubu Island
- Daikon-island
- Bentenjima in Lake Toya
- Bentenjima in Lake Hamana
Other artificial islands
[change | change source]- 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 | change source]The Northern Territories
[change | change source]These are the four disputed Kuril Islands, also known as the Chishima Islands.[19]
Others
[change | change source]- Liancourt Rocks (Takeshima/Dokdo) - occupied by South Korea.
Related pages
[change | change source]References
[change | change source]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Look Japan. Look Japan, Limited. 1997. p. 35.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Japan. Imperial Japanese Commission to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1903). Japan in the Beginning of the 20th Century. Printed at the "Japan times" office. p. 2.
- ↑ Japan. Imperial Japanese Commission to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1903). Japan in the Beginning of the 20th Century. Printed at the "Japan times" office. pp. 3–4.
- ↑ Japan. Imperial Japanese Commission to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1903). Japan in the Beginning of the 20th Century. Printed at the "Japan times" office. pp. 2–3.
- ↑ Louis-Frédéric (2002). Japan Encyclopedia. Harvard University Press. p. 791. ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5.
- ↑ Louis-Frédéric (2002). Japan Encyclopedia. Harvard University Press. p. 747. ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.6 7.7 Louis-Frédéric (2002). Japan Encyclopedia. Harvard University Press. p. 412. ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5.
- ↑ Favro, S.; Brebbia, C.A. (2010). Island Sustainability. WIT Press. p. 187. ISBN 978-1-84564-434-5.
- ↑ Louis-Frédéric (2002). Japan Encyclopedia. Harvard University Press. p. 412. ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5.
- ↑ Louis-Frédéric (2002). Japan Encyclopedia. Harvard University Press. p. 761. ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5.
- ↑ Louis-Frédéric (2002). Japan Encyclopedia. Harvard University Press. p. 987. ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 12.5 Louis-Frédéric (2002). Japan Encyclopedia. Harvard University Press. p. 737. ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5.
- ↑ 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 Japan. Imperial Japanese Commission to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1903). Japan in the Beginning of the 20th Century. Printed at the "Japan times" office. p. 3.
- ↑ Louis-Frédéric (2002). Japan Encyclopedia. Harvard University Press. p. 1035. ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5.
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 17.3 17.4 17.5 17.6 17.7 17.8 Louis-Frédéric (2002). Japan Encyclopedia. Harvard University Press. p. 801. ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5.
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 18.3 Louis-Frédéric (2002). Japan Encyclopedia. Harvard University Press. p. 1034. ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5.
- ↑ Japan. Imperial Japanese Commission to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1903). Japan in the Beginning of the 20th Century. Printed at the "Japan times" office. p. 3.