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Subject:        Japan changes name of Iwo Jima
Date:   Thu, 21 Jun 2007 07:28:46 -0400
From:   Michele Hayslett <[log in to unmask]>
Reply-To:       maps-l
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From the New York Times, posted online yesterday:  Japan changes name
of Iwo Jima
<http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Japan-Iwo-Jima.html?_r=1&oref=slogin>

Japan has returned to using the prewar name for the island of Iwo Jima
-- site of one of World War II's most horrific battles -- at the urging
of its original inhabitants, who want to reclaim an identity they say
has been hijacked by high-profile movies like Clint Eastwood's "Letters
from Iwo Jima."

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