municipality on the island is the town of Hachijō, which encompasses both Hachijō-jima and the neighbouring Hachijō-kojima, though no one lives on the latter...

Ryukyuan, and Southern Ryukyuan). Hachijō is currently spoken on two of the Izu Islands south of Tokyo (Hachijō-jima and the smaller Aogashima) as well...

kilometres (4.7 mi) west of Hachijō-jima, in the northern Izu archipelago. Administratively, the island is within Hachijō, Tokyo, Japan. Oriented in the...

by a geothermal power station and a wind farm. Hachijō covers the islands of Hachijō-jima and Hachijō-kojima, two of the islands in the Izu archipelago...

volcanic eruption.[citation needed] During the Edo period, Nii-jima, Miyake-jima, and Hachijō-jima served as places of exile for criminals. The subtropical...

Jima or JIMA may refer to: Jima of Silla Jima, Nepal Jima, Kenya Jima, a Japanese word for "island", as in Iwo Jima or Hachijō-jima An alternative spelling...

kilometres (40 mi) south of Hachijō-jima. The island is administered by the village of Aogashima, which is subordinate to the Hachijō Subprefecture, which itself...

including stone and ceramic utensils. During the Edo period, as with Hachijō-jima, Nii-jima was used as a place of exile for convicts. The practice was discontinued...

Ieyasu in the Battle of Sekigahara he was exiled to the island prison of Hachijō-jima, where he died. Hideie's father Ukita Naoie was daimyō of Bizen province...

of dialects spoken in Hachijō-jima and Aogashima, islands south of Tokyo, as well as the Daitō Islands east of Okinawa. Hachijō dialect is quite divergent...