Torishima, Tori-shima or Tori Shima, is a Japanese

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or personal

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. Most versions of the name have the meaning ''Bird Island'' (鳥島 /とりしま), with some exceptions.

Places

Tori-shima (Izu Islands) , or ) is an uninhabited Japanese island in the Pacific Ocean. The volcanic island is part of the Izu Islands. Geography Tori-shima is located in the Philippine Sea approximately south of Tokyo and north of Lot's Wife. The roughly circular-sh ...

or ''Izu Torishima'', the island of the Izu Islands, Hachijō Subprefecture, Tokyo *

Minami-Tori-shima sometimes Minami-Tori-shima or Minami-Torishima, also known as Marcus Island, is an isolated Japanese coral atoll in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, located some southeast of Tokyo and east of the closest Japanese island, South Iwo Jima of t ...

(South Bird Island) or ''Marcus Island'', Ogasawara, Tokyo, the easternmost point of Japan *

Okinotorishima , or Parece Vela, is a coral reef, geologically an atoll, with two rocks enlarged with tetrapod-cement structures. It is administered by Japan with a total shoal area of and land area . Its dry land area is mostly made up by three concrete enc ...

(Remote Bird Island), Ogasawara, Tokyo, the southernmost point of Japan *

Kume Torishima is a List of towns in Japan, town located in Shimajiri District, Okinawa, Shimajiri District, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. The town consists of the islands of Kume Island, Kume, Ōjima, Ōhajima, Kume Torishima, Torishima, and Iōtorishima. Among ...

or ''Okinawa Torishima'',

Kumejima, Okinawa is a town located in Shimajiri District, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. The town consists of the islands of Kume, Ōjima, Ōhajima, Torishima, and Iōtorishima. Among the islands, only Kumejima and Ōjima are populated. Kumejima is located app ...

Iōtorishima or Iwo Tori-shima, also called Okinawa Torishima (沖縄鳥島), is a Volcano, volcanic island part of the Ryukyu Islands, Ryūkyū Island chain with the only active volcano in Okinawa Prefecture. Geography Iotourishima is located 65 k ...

(Sulfur Bird Island),

; major source of sulfur for the Ryukyu Kingdom * Nakanotorishima (Center Bird Island) or ''Ganges Island'', the phantom island which was believed to exist in the early 20th century

People

Kazuhiko Torishima is a Japanese publishing executive and former manga magazine editor, who is currently serving as an outside director at Bushiroad. He formerly worked at Shueisha, where he began as an editor in 1976, before becoming a senior managing director ( ...

, editor and producer, best known for ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' magazine and various manga titles * Dempow Torishima, science fiction author and illustrator, winner of the 2011 Sogen SF Short Story Prize for his story "Sisyphean (皆勤の徒 Kaikin no To)" {{disambig, geo