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This looks dumb, the reason being that less than 1% of Americans, probably less than 2% of Europeans, most Chinese, and even most Japanese (above elementary school age), know the place to be Iwo Jima.

Changing the name does not change history.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.215.44.189 ( talk • contribs)

You appear to be confused. This island is different from Iwo Jima, which by the way recently had an official name change to Iōtō. Bendono 07:56, 16 July 2007 (UTC) reply