Four-hundred and forty-one native plant taxa have been documented on the islands whose waters support numerous species of fish, cetaceans and corals. Ogasawara Islands' ecosystems reflect a range of ...

The Ogasawara Islands provide valuable evidence of evolutionary processes through their significant on-going ecological processes of adaptive radiation in the evolution of the land snail fauna as well ...

Even plants and animals native to Japan are considered ... Chichijima and Hahajima islands in the Ogasawara island chain off Tokyo, a UNESCO World Natural Heritage site, have visitors step on ...

Typhoon No. 11 is expected to approach close to the Ogasawara island chain, south of Tokyo, from the late afternoon of Aug. 29, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency. The agency is urging ...