Okinawa (city, prefecture)
off the coast; offshore; out at sea
of the ocean; in the open sea; oceanic
Battle of Okinawa (April, 1945)
Okinawan food; Okinawan cuisine
Naval Battle off Malaya (December 10, 1941)
small fish sliced open and pickled in a mixture of vinegar, sake, and salt; seafood pickled in soy (esp. squid)
Tōhoku earthquake (March 11, 2011); Tohoku earthquake; Sendai Earthquake; Great East Japan Earthquake
Battle of the Philippine Sea (June 19-20, 1944)
Okinawa Reversion Agreement (1971); Agreement between Japan and the United States of America Concerning the Ryukyu Islands and the Daito Islands
Battle of Leyte Gulf (October 23-25, 1944)
Okinawa Prefectural Police (abbr)
offshore wave; deep water wave
Okinawan (language); Okinawan dialect
Okinawan time (i.e. a relaxed attitude to punctuality sometimes ascribed to Okinawans); island time
Okinawa soba (thick noodles served in a pork soup)
Okinawa Electric Power Co., Inc.; OEPC
euphemisms used by superstitious sailors (e.g. calling sardines "sundries", whales "Ebisu", etc.)
Okinawa Women's Junior College
1995 Okinawa rape incident; kidnapping and rape of a 12-year-old Japanese girl by three US servicemen stationed in Okinawa
coming to Okinawa; visit to Okinawa
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University; OIST
Okinawa International University; OIU
Okinawa Christian University
State Minister in Charge of Issues of Okinawa and Northern Territories
Okinawa Office of Telecommunications
Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts
Okinawa Prefectural College of Nursing
Okinawa Socialist Masses Party
offshore fishing industry
Sumatra-Andaman earthquake (2004, resulting in the Indian Ocean tsunami)
Sanriku offshore earthquake (esp. June 15, 1896, March 3, 1933, and March 11, 2011); Sanriku earthquake
Okinawa Development Finance Corporation; ODFC
Okinawa Development Agency (1972-2001)
Okinawa Television Broadcasting Corporation
Okinawa Prefectural Urasoe School of Nursing
staying in Okinawa; resident in Okinawa; stationed in Okinawa
US troops stationed in Okinawa
Okinawa Urban Monorail; Yui Rail
Okinawa Electric Power Company (abbr)
okyūto; dish of boiled egonori formed into gel strips, specialty of Fukuoka Prefecture; Campylaephora hypnaeoides (species of red algae); egonori
water yam (Dioscorea alata); winged yam; purple yam
Okinawan time (i.e. a relaxed attitude to punctuality sometimes ascribed to Okinawans); island time
Okinawan pachinko parlor slot machine
krill; euphasiid (any species in the family Euphausiacea)
false killer whale (Pseudorca crassidens)
Okinawa flying fox (Pteropus loochoensis)
flotsam crab (Planes cyaneus)
Lindera communis (species of spicebush)
warty frog shell (Bursa bufonia dunkeri)
Muennink's spiny rat (Tokudaia muenninki); Okinawa spinous country-rat
bluntnose lizardfish (Trachinocephalus myops); snakefish