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What????
I thought the only things native to Iwo Jima were "Gigan" , "Megalon" and the "Mole People"...
What do they care the name of the Island is... So far, lucky for them Godzilla hasn't found out...

First of all...there's hardly any comparison between Iwo Jima and Auschwitz. The first one was a battlefield where both sides had losses and Japan was defeated. The second one was a concentration/killing camp.

Second, it was the local population in Iwo Jima that demanded for Iwo Jima to retain the original name Iwoto again.

Third, Iwo Jima was part of Japan home soil until 1945 being under US administration until 1968 when it was handled back to Japan again. It is since then Japanese soil and they can do whatever they want, within the legal limits, to the island...including changing its name. Many countries did or do that...I don't see why Japan shouldn't do it.

Forth, regarding China's attitude. So moral they have that perhaps they should consider changing the name of Tianamenn Square and as far as I can tell Mao and the Communist Party have plenty of shrines dedicated to them...even being the Communisme the political regime that killed more people in all the 20th Century.

No doubt all the buildings, signs, restaurants, etc. will have a particular mascot so you know you're at the spa represented by "Hello Kitty" or "Pika-Chu".

Werner wrote:Iwo and it's neighbors are all to be changed into sulphur springs health spas.

How appropriate.

Hmmm, looks who is faulting capitalism.

Iwo and it's neighbors are all to be changed into sulphur springs health spas.

How appropriate.

It seems hard to fault the new name since it appears to be a reversion to the name originally used by the natives of the Island.

The Chinese should be somewhat content with this, since the use of tō (島, tō?) is written the same as the Chinese chracter for the same thing.

I am certain it will only be a few years after they rename the island that their history books will insist the battle never occurred. This is a people who ought to be enshrining and studying their war loss, not renaming and forgetting it.

Auschwitz? Lovely ski village, eh?

Werner wrote:Ought to be named Island H. M. Smith, USMC.

Better yet, because the Japanese language is so descriptive, perhaps it could be named "the Island where the people of Yamato put up a futile defense against those who would destroy the evils of our Empire and erect freedom and justice".

ROFL, im laughing so hard atm!!

Werner wrote:Better yet, because the Japanese language is so descriptive, perhaps it could be named "the Island where the people of Yamato put up a futile defense against those who would destroy the evils of our Empire and erect freedom and justice".

That doesn't even deserve any kind of ellaborated reply....

Ought to be named Island H. M. Smith, USMC.

Better yet, because the Japanese language is so descriptive, perhaps it could be named "the Island where the people of Yamato put up a futile defense against those who would destroy the evils of our Empire and erect freedom and justice".

Pronunciation?

Would it be Iwo Toe or Iwo Two - or even something else?

back to Iwo To , the name it originally had. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iwo_Jima

Reminds me to buy Eastwood's double movie....

wiki wrote:Traditionally the name was Iōtō. Prior to the 1946 spelling reform, a historical spelling was used resulting in (approximately) Iwōtō (modern Iōtō). An alternative name Iwōjima (modern Iōjima), where jima is alternative reading for tō (島, tō?), also appeared in nautical atlases. This Iwōjima reading became mainstream when the American forces arrived during World War II. Former residents protested this name. The Geographical Survey Institute, under the control of the Japan Coast Guard, debated the issue and formally announced[2] on June 18, 2007, that the official name of the island would be restored to the pre-war name Iōtō.[