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