Okinotorishima, the Glossary

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1. 100 relations: Atlantic Ocean, Atoll, Back-arc basin, Beacon, Bernardo de la Torre, Bonin Islands, British Empire, China, Concrete, Coral reef, Diameter, Economics, Embryophyte, Encasement, Erosion, Exclusive economic zone, Farallon de Pajaros, Foraminifera, Geography of Japan, Geological formation, Godzilla Megamullion, Government of Japan, Granite, Guam, Hateruma, Helicopter, Horse mackerel, Hydrographic survey, Islet, Izu–Bonin–Mariana Arc, Japan, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Japan Coast Guard, Japanese archipelago, Japanese nationalism, Japanese yen, Jurist, Lagoon, Land claim, Levee, Lighthouse, List of extreme points of Japan, List of villages in Japan, Lists of islands, Miguel López de Legazpi, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, Miocene, Nautical chart, Nippon Foundation, Observation post, ... Expand index (50 more) »

2. Atolls of Japan
3. Disputed waters
4. Extreme points of Japan
5. Islands of Tokyo
6. Japan Coast Guard

Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about.

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Atoll

An atoll is a ring-shaped island, including a coral rim that encircles a lagoon.

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Back-arc basin

A back-arc basin is a type of geologic basin, found at some convergent plate boundaries.

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Beacon

A beacon is an intentionally conspicuous device designed to attract attention to a specific location.

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Bernardo de la Torre

Bernardo de la Torre or della Torres (died 1545) was a Spanish explorer during the Age of Discovery.

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Bonin Islands

The Bonin Islands, also known as the Ogasawara Islands (小笠原諸島), is a Japanese archipelago of over 30 subtropical and tropical islands located around SSE of Tokyo and northwest of Guam. Okinotorishima and Bonin Islands are islands of Tokyo.

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British Empire

The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates, and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.

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Concrete

Concrete is a composite material composed of aggregate bonded together with a fluid cement that cures to a solid over time.

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Coral reef

A coral reef is an underwater ecosystem characterized by reef-building corals. Okinotorishima and coral reef are coral reefs.

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Diameter

In geometry, a diameter of a circle is any straight line segment that passes through the centre of the circle and whose endpoints lie on the circle.

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Economics

Economics is a social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.

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Embryophyte

The embryophytes are a clade of plants, also known as Embryophyta or land plants.

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Encasement

Encasement is the coating over, covering or "encasing" of all building components, interior and exterior.

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Erosion

Erosion is the action of surface processes (such as water flow or wind) that removes soil, rock, or dissolved material from one location on the Earth's crust and then transports it to another location where it is deposited.

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Exclusive economic zone

An exclusive economic zone (EEZ), as prescribed by the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, is an area of the sea in which a sovereign state has exclusive rights regarding the exploration and use of marine resources, including energy production from water and wind.

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Farallon de Pajaros

Farallón de Pájaros (from Spanish Farallón de Pájaros, meaning "Birds' Sea Stack", see Stack (geology)), also known as Uracus or Urracas (from Spanish Urracas, meaning "Magpies"), is a small (2.3 km2) uninhabited volcanic island, the northernmost island and also farthest west in the Northern Mariana Islands chain.

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Foraminifera

Foraminifera (Latin for "hole bearers"; informally called "forams") are single-celled organisms, members of a phylum or class of Rhizarian protists characterized by streaming granular ectoplasm for catching food and other uses; and commonly an external shell (called a "test") of diverse forms and materials.

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Geography of Japan

Japan is an archipelagic country comprising a stratovolcanic archipelago over along the Pacific coast of East Asia.

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Geological formation

A geological formation, or simply formation, is a body of rock having a consistent set of physical characteristics (lithology) that distinguishes it from adjacent bodies of rock, and which occupies a particular position in the layers of rock exposed in a geographical region (the stratigraphic column).

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Godzilla Megamullion

The Godzilla Megamullion (Gojira megamurion) is an undersea Japanese megamullion, or oceanic core complex, south-east of the island of Okinotorishima in the Philippine Sea.

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Government of Japan

The Government of Japan is the central government of Japan.

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Granite

Granite is a coarse-grained (phaneritic) intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase.

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Guam

Guam (Guåhan) is an organized, unincorporated territory of the United States in the Micronesia subregion of the western Pacific Ocean.

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Hateruma

Hateruma (波照間島; Hateruma-jima; Yaeyama: Patirooma, Hateruma dialect: Besїma "our island", Okinawan: Hatiruma, Northern Ryukyuan: ぱたら Patara) is an island in the Yaeyama District of Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. Okinotorishima and Hateruma are extreme points of Japan.

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Helicopter

A helicopter is a type of rotorcraft in which lift and thrust are supplied by horizontally spinning rotors.

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Horse mackerel

Horse mackerel is a vague vernacular term for a range of species of fish throughout the English-speaking world.

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Hydrographic survey

Hydrographic survey is the science of measurement and description of features which affect maritime navigation, marine construction, dredging, offshore wind farms, offshore oil exploration and drilling and related activities.

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Islet

An islet is a very small, often unnamed island.

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Izu–Bonin–Mariana Arc

The Izu–Bonin–Mariana (IBM) arc system is a tectonic plate convergent boundary in Micronesia.

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Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.

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Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology

The, or JAMSTEC (海洋機構), is a Japanese national research institute for marine-earth science and technology.

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Japan Coast Guard

The is the coast guard responsible for the protection of the coastline of Japan under the oversight of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism.

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Japanese archipelago

The Japanese archipelago (Japanese:, Nihon Rettō) is an archipelago of 14,125 islands that form the country of Japan.

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Japanese nationalism

is a form of nationalism that asserts the belief that the Japanese are a monolithic nation with a single immutable culture, and promotes the cultural unity of the Japanese.

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Japanese yen

The is the official currency of Japan.

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Jurist

A jurist is a person with expert knowledge of law; someone who analyzes and comments on law.

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Lagoon

A lagoon is a shallow body of water separated from a larger body of water by a narrow landform, such as reefs, barrier islands, barrier peninsulas, or isthmuses.

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Land claim

A land claim is defined as "the pursuit of recognized territorial ownership by a group or individual".

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Levee

A levee, dike (American English), dyke (Commonwealth English), embankment, floodbank, or stop bank is a structure used to keep the course of rivers from changing and to protect against flooding of the area adjoining the river or coast.

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Lighthouse

A lighthouse is a tower, building, or other type of physical structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses and to serve as a beacon for navigational aid, for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways.

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List of extreme points of Japan

The extreme points of Japan include the coordinates that are the farthest north, south, east and west in Japan, and the ones that are at the highest and the lowest elevations in the country. Okinotorishima and List of extreme points of Japan are extreme points of Japan.

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List of villages in Japan

A is a local administrative unit in Japan.

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Lists of islands

This is a list of the lists of islands in the world grouped by country, by continent, by body of water, and by other classifications.

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Miguel López de Legazpi

Miguel López de Legazpi (12 June 1502 – 20 August 1572), also known as El Adelantado and El Viejo (The Elder), was a Spanish conquistador who financed and led an expedition to conquer the Philippine islands in the mid-16th century.

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Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism

The, abbreviated MLIT, is a ministry of the Japanese government.

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Miocene

The Miocene is the first geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma).

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Nautical chart

A nautical chart or hydrographic chart is a graphic representation of a sea region or water body and adjacent coasts or banks.

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Nippon Foundation

of Tokyo, Japan, is a private, non-profit grant-making organization. It was established in 1962 by Ryoichi Sasakawa.

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Observation post

An observation post (commonly abbreviated OP), temporary or fixed, is a position from which soldiers can watch enemy movements, to warn of approaching soldiers (such as in trench warfare), or to direct fire.

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Oceanic basin

In hydrology, an oceanic basin (or ocean basin) is anywhere on Earth that is covered by seawater.

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Oceanic core complex

An oceanic core complex, or megamullion, is a seabed geologic feature that forms a long ridge perpendicular to a mid-ocean ridge.

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Ogasawara Subprefecture

is a subprefecture of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government in Japan.

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Ogasawara, Tokyo

is a village in Ogasawara Subprefecture, Tokyo Metropolis, Japan, that governs the Bonin Islands, Volcano Islands, and three remote islands (Nishinoshima, Minamitorishima and Okinotorishima).

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Oil

An oil is any nonpolar chemical substance that is composed primarily of hydrocarbons and is hydrophobic (does not mix with water) and lipophilic (mixes with other oils).

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Okidaitōjima

, also spelled as Oki Daitō Island or Oki-Daitō or Oki-no-Daitō, previously known as, is an abandoned island in the Daitō Islands group southeast of Okinawa, Japan. Okinotorishima and Okidaitōjima are uninhabited islands of Japan.

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Oligocene

The Oligocene is a geologic epoch of the Paleogene Period and extends from about 33.9 million to 23 million years before the present (to). As with other older geologic periods, the rock beds that define the epoch are well identified but the exact dates of the start and end of the epoch are slightly uncertain.

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Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions.

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Pacific War

The Pacific War, sometimes called the Asia–Pacific War or the Pacific Theater, was the theater of World War II that was fought in eastern Asia, the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean, and Oceania.

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Philippine Sea

The Philippine Sea is a marginal sea of the Western Pacific Ocean east of the Philippine Archipelago (hence the name) and the largest sea in the world, occupying an estimated surface area of.

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Power station

A power station, also referred to as a power plant and sometimes generating station or generating plant, is an industrial facility for the generation of electric power.

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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.

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Radar

Radar is a system that uses radio waves to determine the distance (ranging), direction (azimuth and elevation angles), and radial velocity of objects relative to the site.

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Ridge

A ridge is a long, narrow, elevated geomorphologic landform, structural feature, or a combination of both separated from the surrounding terrain by steep sides.

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Rock (geology)

In geology, rock (or stone) is any naturally occurring solid mass or aggregate of minerals or mineraloid matter.

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Rockall

Rockall is an uninhabitable granite islet in the North Atlantic Ocean.

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Sail

A sail is a tensile structure, which is made from fabric or other membrane materials, that uses wind power to propel sailing craft, including sailing ships, sailboats, windsurfers, ice boats, and even sail-powered land vehicles.

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Satellite imagery

Satellite images (also Earth observation imagery, spaceborne photography, or simply satellite photo) are images of Earth collected by imaging satellites operated by governments and businesses around the world.

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Scarborough Shoal

Scarborough Shoal, also known as Panacot, Bajo de Masinloc ("Masinloc Shoal" in Spanish), Huangyan Island (Mandarin l), Minzhu Jiao (Mandarin l), and Panatag Shoal (lit), are two skerries located between Macclesfield Bank to the west and Luzon to the east.

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Seafloor spreading

Seafloor spreading, or seafloor spread, is a process that occurs at mid-ocean ridges, where new oceanic crust is formed through volcanic activity and then gradually moves away from the ridge.

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Shintaro Ishihara

was a Japanese politician and writer, who served as the Governor of Tokyo from 1999 to 2012.

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Skerry

A skerry is a small rocky island, or islet, usually too small for human habitation.

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Snorkeling

Snorkeling (British and Commonwealth English spelling: snorkelling) is the practice of swimming face down on or through a body of water while breathing the ambient air through a shaped tube called a snorkel, usually with swimming goggles or a diving mask, and swimfins.

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South Iwo Jima

, officially Minami or South Iōtō (written with the same characters) since 18 June 2007 and also formerly known as Santo Agustino, is a uninhabited island in the North Pacific. Okinotorishima and South Iwo Jima are islands of Tokyo and uninhabited islands of Japan.

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South Korea

South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia.

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Spanish language

Spanish (español) or Castilian (castellano) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.

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Stilt house

Stilt houses (also called pile dwellings or lake dwellings) are houses raised on stilts (or piles) over the surface of the soil or a body of water.

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Stilts (architecture)

Stilts are poles, posts or pillars used to allow a structure or building to stand at a distance above the ground or water.

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Submarine

A submarine (or sub) is a watercraft capable of independent operation underwater.

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Submersion (coastal management)

Submersion is the sustainable cyclic portion of coastal erosion where coastal sediments move from the visible portion of a beach to the submerged nearshore region, and later return to the original visible portion of the beach.

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Subprefectures of Japan

are a Japanese form of self-government which focuses on local issues below the prefectural level.

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Taiwan

Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia.

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Territorial disputes of Japan

Japan is currently engaged in several territorial disputes with nearby countries, including Russia, South Korea, North Korea, the People's Republic of China, and the Republic of China (Taiwan).

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The Asahi Shimbun

is one of the five largest newspapers in Japan.

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The Japan Times

The Japan Times is Japan's largest and oldest English-language daily newspaper.

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Tide

Tides are the rise and fall of sea levels caused by the combined effects of the gravitational forces exerted by the Moon (and to a much lesser extent, the Sun) and are also caused by the Earth and Moon orbiting one another.

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Titanium

Titanium is a chemical element; it has symbol Ti and atomic number 22.

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Tokyo

Tokyo (東京), officially the Tokyo Metropolis (label), is the capital of Japan and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of over 14 million residents as of 2023 and the second-most-populated capital in the world.

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Treaty of San Francisco

The, also called the, re-established peaceful relations between Japan and the Allied Powers on behalf of the United Nations by ending the legal state of war, military occupation and providing for redress for hostile actions up to and including World War II.

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Tropic of Cancer

The Tropic of Cancer, also known as the Northern Tropic, is the Earth's northernmost circle of latitude where the Sun can be seen directly overhead.

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Typhoon

A typhoon is a tropical cyclone that develops between 180° and 100°E in the Northern Hemisphere and which produces sustained hurricane-force winds of at least.

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Uninhabited island

An uninhabited island, desert island, or deserted island, is an island, islet or atoll that is not permanently populated by humans.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.

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United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea

The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), also called the Law of the Sea Convention or the Law of the Sea Treaty, is an international treaty that establishes a legal framework for all marine and maritime activities.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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United States Armed Forces

The United States Armed Forces are the military forces of the United States.

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United States Department of State

The United States Department of State (DOS), or simply the State Department, is an executive department of the U.S. federal government responsible for the country's foreign policy and relations.

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War

War is an armed conflict between the armed forces of states, or between governmental forces and armed groups that are organized under a certain command structure and have the capacity to sustain military operations, or between such organized groups.

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William Douglas (sea captain)

William Douglas (died 1791) was a Scottish ship captain and an oceanographer maritime fur trader during the late 18th century.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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See also

Atolls of Japan

• Daitō Islands
• Minamitorishima
• Okinotorishima

Disputed waters

• 1985 Polar Sea controversy
• 2018 Cyprus gas dispute
• Aegean dispute
• Banc du Geyser
• Barbados v. Trinidad and Tobago
• Beaufort Sea
• Canadian Internal Waters
• Chilean–Peruvian maritime dispute
• Croatia–Slovenia border disputes
• Cyprus–Turkey maritime zones dispute
• Dixon Entrance
• Dollart
• East China Sea EEZ disputes
• Gageo Reef
• Georges Bank
• Gulf of Maine
• Gulf of Piran
• Ilulissat Declaration
• India–Pakistan maritime trespassing
• Israeli–Lebanese maritime border dispute
• Japan–Korea Joint Development Zone
• List of areas disputed by Canada and the United States
• Lough Foyle
• Maritime Delimitation in the Black Sea case
• Mercosur Waterways diplomatic crisis
• Northern Limit Line
• Northwest Passage
• Okinotorishima
• Peanut Hole
• Sea of Japan
• Sir Creek
• Socotra Rock
• South China Sea
• Strait of Juan de Fuca

Extreme points of Japan

• Benten-jima (Wakkanai)
• Cape Ashizuri
• Cape Elizabeth (Sakhalin)
• Cape Irizaki
• Cape Kamoda
• Cape Koritsky
• Cape Nagasakibana
• Cape Nagasakibana, Kagoshima
• Cape Sata
• Cape Shionomisaki
• Cape Sōya
• Cape Todo
• Cape Ōma
• Hachinohe mine
• Hachirōgata
• Hateruma
• Kōzakihana
• List of extreme points of Japan
• Minamitorishima
• Mount Fuji
• Okinotorishima
• Yonaguni

Islands of Tokyo

• Aogashima
• Aomi
• Ariake West Canal
• Ariake, Tokyo
• Bayonnaise Rocks
• Bonin Islands
• Chichijima
• Hachijō-jima
• Hachijō-kojima
• Hahajima
• Inamba-jima
• Iwo Jima
• Izu Islands
• Izu Ōshima
• Jinai-tō
• Kōzu-shima
• Lot's Wife (crag)
• Mikura-jima
• Minamitorishima
• Miyake-jima
• Mukojima Islands
• Nanpō Islands
• Nii-jima
• Nishinoshima (Ogasawara)
• North Iwo Jima
• Odaiba
• Okinotorishima
• Seven Islands of Izu
• Shikine-jima
• Smith Island (Japan)
• South Iwo Jima
• To-shima, Tokyo
• Tokyo Islands
• Tori-shima (Izu Islands)
• Tsukishima
• Tsukudajima
• Udone-shima
• Volcano Islands
• Wakasu
• Yumenoshima
• Ōnohara Islands

Japan Coast Guard

• 2024 Haneda Airport runway collision
• Advanced Land Observing Satellite
• Japan Coast Guard
• Japan Coast Guard Academy
• Japan Coast Guard Museum
• Japan Coast Guard Museum Yokohama
• Kaiyō No.1-class oceanographic research ship
• List of Japan Coast Guard vessels and aircraft
• No.1-class patrol boat (1945)
• No.1-class submarine chaser (1943)
• North Pacific Coast Guard Agencies Forum
• Okinotorishima
• Special Rescue Team
• Special Security Team
• Umizaru

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okinotorishima

Also known as Oki-no-Tori-shima, Okino Tori Shima, Okino Torishima, Okino-tori-shima, Okinotori, Okinotori Island, Okinotori Islands, Okinotori Rock, Okinotori-shima, Okinotori/old, Okinotorijima, Okinotorishima Island, Parece Vela, .

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