Spencer Low
11Jun/120

A Western Outpost Shrinks on a Remote Island Now in Japanese Hands

A Western Outpost Shrinks on a Remote Island Now in Japanese Hands http://t.co/3LgH8mhq

John Washington is part of a small community of descendants of Western settlers on Chichi Jima, where his great-great-grandfather, Nathaniel Savory, arrived in 1830. (Kosuke Okahara for The New York Times)

 

From The New York Times