Portraits and landscapes made over thirteen years on Chichijima, in the Ogasawara Islands 1,000 kilometres south of Tokyo, a World Heritage island reached by a 24-hour boat trip, to make visible the identity of its indigenous people. Uninhabited until 1830, when five Westerners and twenty Kanaka people first settled, it was declared Japanese territory in 1873 and its settlers became citizens; their descendants were called Western Islanders. In the war the island was fortified and all residents were forcibly evacuated; after it the American navy occupied the island until 1968 and allowed only the Western-descended islanders to return, and they lived in American culture, hearing of the reversion to Japan only just before. The name changed from Mujin to Bunin to Bonin, an identity written on the birth certificates and passports of the occupation. Shinichiro Nagasawa researched their history closely and photographed each person and the landscapes that matter to the islanders, a quiet tale of a little-known history and of the people who carry it.