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Kōzu-shima

Volcanic island in the Philippine Sea

Field	Value
name	Kōzu-shima
image_name	Landsat Kozushima Island.jpg
image_caption	Landsat image of Kōzu-shima
map_image	Map of Izu Islands.png
native_name	神津島
location	Izu Islands
coordinates
archipelago	Izu Islands
area_km2	18.48
length_km	6
width_km	4
coastline_m	22000
elevation_m	571
country	Japan
country_admin_divisions_title	Prefecture
country_admin_divisions	Tokyo
country_admin_divisions_title_1	Subprefecture
country_admin_divisions_1	Ōshima Subprefecture
country_admin_divisions_title_2	Village
country_admin_divisions_2	Kozushima
population	1952
population_as_of	June 2017
additional_info

Kōzu-shima is a volcanic Japanese island in the Philippine Sea. The island is administered by Tōkyō and is located approximately 30 km northwest of the Miyake-jima and 14 km southwest of the Nii-jima. It is one of the Izu Seven Islands, a group of the seven northern islands of the Izu archipelago. Kōzushima is administratively part of Kōzushima Village (founded 1923), under Ōshima Subprefecture of Tokyo Metropolis. , the island's population was 1,952. Kōzushima is within the boundaries of the Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park.

Geology

Kōzu-shima is a compound volcanic island 6 km in length with a maximum width of 4 km. The island is formed from a cluster of eighteen lava domes, with rhyolite and pyroclastic ash deposits. The highest of these lava domes, Tenjō-san, has a height of 571 m, and was last active in 838 AD per the ancient Japanese history Shoku Nihon Kōki. Compared with most of the other islands in the Izu archipelago, Kōzu-shima is relatively flat, with small eroded hills, and lacks the high coastal cliffs found on the other islands. Earthquake swarms have occurred at Kōzu-shima during the 20th century.

Climate

Important Bird Area

The island has been recognised as an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International because it supports populations of Japanese wood pigeons, Tristram's storm petrels, Japanese murrelets, Ijima's leaf-warblers, Pleske's grasshopper warblers and Izu thrushes.

History

Kōzu-shima has been inhabited since at least the Japanese Paleolithic era, and archaeologists have found Jōmon period stone tools made from obsidian in Shizuoka and Yamanashi Prefectures. Under the Ritsuryō system of the early Nara period, the island was part of Suruga Province. It was transferred to Izu Province when Izu separated from Suruga in 680 AD. During the Heian period, obsidian was the primary export from the island.

In popular culture

The island is the hometown of the idol duet Sunny Passion in the franchise Love Live! Superstar!!. Several episodes of the corresponding anime TV series take place there.

In the film Weathering with You, Hodaka Morishima (the male protagonist) is from the island.

Notes

References

Teikoku's Complete Atlas of Japan, Teikoku-Shoin., Ltd. Tokyo 1990,

References

[[Louis-Frédéric
. (2021). ["Kozushima island"](http://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/kozushima-island-iba-japan). *BirdLife International*.

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