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unusual facts about Miyake-jima


Miyake-jima

The seat of the local government is in the village (in the traditional sense) of Tsubota on the southeast coast of Miyake Island.


Criminal punishment in Edo-period Japan

For crimes requiring moderate punishment, convicts could be sent to work at labor camps such as the one on Ishikawa-jima in Edo Bay.

Ian Bruce Ferguson

With the cessation of hostilities in August 1945, he volunteered for service in the British Commonwealth Occupation Force in Japan, where he commanded a company of the 67th Battalion at Kaita, and later on Eta Jima island.

Ignatowski

Ralph Ignatowski (1926–1945), U.S. Marine, killed in battle at Iwo Jima

Iriomote-jima

The island has a venomous snake—Trimeresurus elegans, known locally as the habu, is a species of pitviper whose bite has a fatality rate of 3% and a permanent disability rate of 6–8%.

Issey Miyake

Issey Miyake fragrances are produced under a long-term agreement by the Beauté Prestige International division of Shiseido, who also produces fragrances for Narciso Rodriguez, Elie Saab, and Jean-Paul Gaultier.

Iwo

Iwo Jima, a small island in Japan, site of the Battle of Iwo Jima during World War II.

Japanese air attacks on the Mariana Islands

Nimitz ordered a major attack on Iwo Jima following the raids of November 27 and dispatched Lieutenant General Millard Harmon, the commander of Army Air Forces in the Pacific Ocean Areas, from Hawaii to Saipan to oversee this operation.

Jima of Silla

Relations with neighboring Gaya confederacy were also peaceful, after Jima's unsuccessful invasion attempts across the Nakdong River in 115 and 116.

Kyoichi Mori

In late 2002, Tsunemi Kubodera came to Chichi-jima, a part of the Bonin Islands archipelago, with the desire to film the giant squid alive in its natural habitat.

Majokko Tickle

Script: Mitsuru Majima, Tatsuo Tamura, Yoshimi Shinozaki, Sukehiro Tomita, Hirohisa Soda, Akiyoshi Sakai, Naoko Miyake, Masaki Tsuji, Kunihiko Yuyama, Kôzô Takagaki, Yû Yamamoto, Toyohiro Andô, Tomoko Konparu

Marine Corps War Memorial

The Marine Corps War Memorial (also called the Iwo Jima Memorial) is a military memorial statue outside the walls of the Arlington National Cemetery and next to the Netherlands Carillon, in Arlington Ridge Park, Arlington, Virginia, in the United States.

National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific

John "Jack" Chevigny, Norte Dame football player (said, "that's one for the Gipper" in 1928 game) who was killed on Iwo Jima.

Periplaneta japanna

Laboratory-induced diapause tests on nymph specimens from Hachijō-jima Island and Naha, Okinawa responded quite differently to photoperiodic stimulii, which “might be regarded as the result of divergent evolution” between the parapatric populations.

The species is found on several Japanese islands, distributed continuously from Japan’s southwestern Ryukyu Islands chain to the south of Kiyushu Island, and on Hachijō-jima Island.

Ruhl

Donald J. Ruhl (1923 – 1945), American Marine; awarded Medal of Honor for action at Iwo Jima

Shikine-jima

The island is the smaller inhabited component of the village of Niijima, which also contains the larger, neighboring island of Niijima and the smaller, uninhabited Jinaitō.

Tokujin Yoshioka

In the line of space designs, Yoshioka has been producing the boutique designs for Issey Miyake for more than 20 years, and have provided space designs for Toyota, Hermes, Lexus, Peugeot, NTT, BMW, and for cosmetic brands as RMK and SUQQU, which also involved works for their product package designs.

Toshiyuki Tsuru

Toshiyuki Tsuru (都留 稔幸) was the director of the 3rd Naruto movie, Dai Kofun! Mikazuki Jima no Animal Panic Dattebayo! These words translate into The Animal Riot of Crescent Moon Island.

Virginia State Route 110

SR 110 continues north with four lanes and has its sole at-grade intersection at Marshall Drive, which leads to the Marine Corps War Memorial, also known as the Iwo Jima Memorial, and the Netherlands Carillon.

Wonder Boy

This was the first of these modified ports (originally released in Japan as Takahashi-Meijin no Bōken Jima) for the Nintendo Entertainment System by Hudson Soft, a modified version of the first Wonder Boy in which the main character replaced with a caricature of real-life Japanese video game expert named Takahashi Meijin.


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