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Minamidaitō, Okinawa, Japan
360km east of Okinawa Island lies the seemingly idyllic island of Minamidaitō. As you can imagine, due to its location close to Okinawa, it had a role to play during the events of World War 2. The Empire of Japan officially solidified its claim over the island in 1885. Prior to this it had been relatively uninhabited. In 1900, a group of Japanese pioneers began to inhabit the island, and the eventual settling of the island was interrupted by the Second World War. The United States of America occupied the island at the end of the war, before this the island was being cultivated by Dai Nippon Sugar as a sugar cane plantation.
