The new island is an indication that Iwo Jima is volcanically active again. Setsuya Nakada / Asahi Shimbun “Volcanic ash and bombs reached ejected masses as high as 100 meters high above, and ...

Iwo Jima is a tiny, 8-square mile island, about one-tenth the size of Catalina Island. Iwo Jima means “sulfer island” in Japanese and is 660 miles south of Tokyo.

Location: Iwo Jima, "Sulfur Island," a tiny part of the Volcano Islands, 12 square miles in size, about 500 miles south of Tokyo. Commanders. U.S.: Holland Smith.

Though commonly referred to as Iwo Jima, its official name is Ioto in Japanese. Measuring roughly 24 square kilometers, it is similar to the size of the capital's Shinagawa Ward.

Iwo Jima has always been beautiful, ... about the size of a busy international airport today, ... the United States built a military base on Iwo Jima. In 1968, the island was given back to Japan.

Japan changed the name of the island of Iwo Jima, the site of a brutal World War II battle, to Iwo To in order to alter the island's image in the wake of Hollywood films about the battle.

An underwater volcano that gave birth to a new island off Japan's Iwo Jima island has erupted again, sending huge plumes of ash and smoke into the sky in footage released by Japan's Coast Guard.

Iwo Jima is a tiny, 8-square mile island, about one-tenth the size of Catalina Island. Iwo Jima means “sulfer island” in Japanese and is 660 miles south of Tokyo.