Ogasawara Islands

The Bonin Islands, also known as the Ogasawara Islands, are an archipelago of over 30 subtropical and tropical islands in Micronesia, some 1,000 kilometres directly south of Tokyo, Japan. The name "Bonin Islands" comes from the Japanese word bunin, meaning "no people" or "uninhabited". The only inhabited islands of the group are Chichijima, the seat of the municipal government, and Hahajima. Archeological evidence has revealed that some of the islands may have been prehistorically inhabited by members of an unknown Micronesian ethnicity. ()