The name Bonin is a French cartographer's corruption of the old Japanese word munin, which means "no man." These islands were uninhabited for most of Japan's existence. They literally contained ...

The U.S. Navy bombed and shelled the Bonin Islands from late 1944 to early 1945 in anticipation of the invasion of Iwo Jima and the eventual attack on Tokyo.

Dolphin dances, WWII relics in blissful, remote Japanese islands Originally published December 9, 2005 at 12:00 am As I slid into the ocean west of Chichi Jima, I wasn't thinking about the island ...

Iwo Jima translates to "Sulfur Island." It is part of the Bonin Islands, which is made up of around 30 subtropical islands in ...

It’s a big night to celebrate Bryan Bonin’s life and the great game of baseball on Long Island.” Bonin led Commack to the Long Island title in 2021 after a win over Massapequa.

Located 1,000km from Tokyo, Japan’s 30-island Bonin archipelago was never part of a larger land mass ... In World War II, the islands became an arena for fighting between Japanese and US troops.

The German U-boat U-853 sank the last U.S. merchant ship sunk in WWII. Historian Tim Gray speculates that German U-boats may have entered Narragansett Bay before the U.S. officially entered WWII ...

April 27 (Reuters) - An earthquake of magnitude 6.5 struck Japan's Bonin Islands, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said on Saturday. The quake was at a depth of 503.2 km (312.7 miles ...

As The New York Times reports, this new islet, located less than a mile off the shores of Iwo Jima — the infamous Japanese island that saw one of the bloodiest battles of WWII's Pacific Front ...