Iōjima

Iōjima was a village in the Japanese prefecture of Tokyo. Its administrative area covered the whole island of Iwo Jima, one of the Volcano Islands. It existed from 1923 when the Ogasawara islands were organized into modern municipalities to 1952 when mainland Tokyo returned to Japanese sovereignty and Iwo Jima was put under US military administration. When the island was returned to Japan in 1968 it became part of the village of Ogasawara, Tokyo.
In 1943, the village had a population of 1,018 in 192 households. For a period the population was fewer than 1,200.
Administratively the villages and towns on Tokyo's islands were never subordinate to counties, but through subprefectures more directly tied to the prefectural administration. In addition, municipal administrations on small islands followed different administrative rules than those on the main islands, the tōsho chō-son-sei. In 1940, Tokyo's island municipalities including Iōjima were transformed into ordinary towns and villages and followed the same revised Imperial administrative code of 1911 as the towns and villages on the mainland.
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