volcano island towards the end of World War II as American air force planes bomb Japan. The story is based on Umezaki's own experience; he was stationed in a military cipher base in the nearby Prefecture city of Kagoshima. Sakurajima was also the name of Japanese singer Tsuyoshi Nagabuchi's song. In 2004, Nagabuchi held an at a quarry of Sakurajima that attracted an audience of 75,000. After the concert, a statue showing Nagabuchi screaming with a guitar was installed on the site of the concert. See also List of volcanoes in Japan Notes References Townley, S.D. (1915). "Seismographs at the Panama-Pacific Exposition," Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. Stanford, California: Seismological Society of America. Teikoku's Complete Atlas of Japan, Teikoku-Shoin Co., Ltd. Tokyo 1990 Further reading Aramaki S. (1984), Formation of the Aira Caldera, Southern Kyūshū, ~22,000 years ago, Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 89, issue B10, p. 8485. Guide-books of the Excursions: Pan-Pacific Science Congress, 1926, Japan. Tokyo: Tokyo Printing Co. Johnson, H & Kuwahara, S (2016), Sakurajima: Maintaining an island essence, Shima: The International Journal of Research into Island Cultures, vol. 10, no.1, pp. 48–66. External links Sakurajima: National catalogue of the active volcanoes in Japan - Japan Meteorological Agency Sakurajima Volcano Research Center - Kyoto University Aira / Sakurajima, Global Volcanic Program Footage of the March 2009 eruption - BBC Schoolchildren in Kagoshima wearing helmets to protect against stones thrown out by the nearby Sakurajima volcano (which is in background) Schoolchildren and their teacher wearing helmets Google Earth air view Google Earth ground view approaching Sakurajima from the mainland Smithsonian Institution's Global Volcanism Program (GVP) (entry for Aira /Sakurajima) Landforms of Kagoshima Prefecture Volcanoes of Kyushu Stratovolcanoes of Japan Subduction volcanoes Decade Volcanoes Active volcanoes VEI-6 volcanoes 20th-century volcanic events Former islands Volcanic eruptions in 2022