rope; cord; policeman's rope
Okinawa (city, prefecture)
stretching a rope around; roping off; one's turf; domain; territory (of an animal)
not straightforward; not dealt with by ordinary means; very hard to manage
(piece of) rope; ordinary method
policeman's rope; arresting (a criminal)
skipping rope; jump rope; skipping; rope-jumping
rope used to cordon off consecrated areas or as a talisman against evil
to bind (a criminal) with rope; to arrest; to seize; to bind (something) with rope
knot (in rope, etc.); bonds; arrest; rope impressions (on the surface of pottery)
slipping one's bonds; escaping; flight
leash; rope tied round prisoner's waists
Battle of Okinawa (April, 1945)
Okinawan food; Okinawan cuisine
lineage; pedigree; ancestry
not straightforward; not dealt with by ordinary means; very hard to manage
ninja rope with grappling hook
measure taken too late; measure taken in haste
policeman's rope (used for restraining criminals)
rope holding up a flag or curtain; lead rope (for a horse); rope used to bind a criminal; rope used to control the angle of a sail (on a traditional Japanese boat)
criminal (bound by ropes); prisoner in bonds; being bound by ropes
footpath between rice fields
lariat; lasso; slip noose
last-minute; eleventh-hour
fortune and misfortune are intertwined; fortune and misfortune come by turns; good luck and bad luck alternate (like the strands of a rope); good and bad fortune are next-door neighbours
disgrace of being captured and bound as a criminal
Okinawa Reversion Agreement (1971); Agreement between Japan and the United States of America Concerning the Ryukyu Islands and the Daito Islands
crotch rope (in sexual bondage)
rope artist (in sexual bondage)
Okinawa Prefectural Police (abbr)
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
water shield (Brasenia schreberi)
slender rope that goes through the hole in a coin
Okinawa Women's Junior College
territorial behavior; territorial behaviour
1995 Okinawa rape incident; kidnapping and rape of a 12-year-old Japanese girl by three US servicemen stationed in 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
Okinawa Development Finance Corporation; ODFC
Okinawa Development Agency (1972-2001)
Okinawa Television Broadcasting Corporation
Okinawa Prefectural Urasoe School of Nursing
Okinawa Urban Monorail; Yui Rail
quipu; khipu; talking knots
water yam (Dioscorea alata); winged yam; purple yam
once bitten twice shy; to become over cautious from a bad experience; (lit.) to be bitten by a snake and thus fear a rotten rope (which resembles a snake)
starting something in the eleventh hour; have not thy cloak to make when it begins to rain; don't lock the stable door after the horse has been stolen; braiding the rope only after the thief is caught
charpai (woven bed); charpai bed; charpoy
Okinawan time (i.e. a relaxed attitude to punctuality sometimes ascribed to Okinawans); island time
Okinawa flying fox (Pteropus loochoensis)
Lindera communis (species of spicebush)
Muennink's spiny rat (Tokudaia muenninki); Okinawa spinous country-rat
halter (for restraining a horse, etc.)