Tanegashima (Japanese matchlock gun); arquebus; harquebus
Shimane (prefecture); (arch.) island country
Blakiston's fish owl (Bubo blakistoni)
long-tailed tit (Aegithalos caudatus japonicus)
ornament representing the Isle of Eternal Youth
Fukushima (city, prefecture)
Takashimaya; Takashimaya (Japanese department store chain)
Arisaema urashima (species of cobra lily)
elegant pit viper (Protobothrops elegans); elegant tree viper
Yamato (province); Japan; the art of classical Japanese poetry
Tokushima (city, prefecture)
Kuril Islands; Kurile Islands; Chishima Islands
floating island (mass of floating aquatic plants); island that appears to be floating (due to the mirage effect)
Onigashima; island of ogres (in Japanese folklore)
all over the island; throughout the island; on the island
faint outlines of an island; vague shape of an island; silhouette of an island
Shimabara Rebellion (1637-1638)
lee of an island; area hidden by an island
Oshima tsumugi weave (type of pongee made in the Amami islands)
traditional Okinawan folk music
from island to island; island-hopping
mythical island inhabited only by women; isle of women; women-only location
Enoshima Electric Railway
Liancourt Rocks dispute (territorial dispute between Japan and South Korea)
Rip van Winkle effect (for a woman); feeling that everything has changed once one comes back to Japan (for a woman)
island language; island dialect
chrysanthemum (Chrysanthemum indicum)
mother tongue (from the island where one was raised); Okinawan neologism (developed by the language revival movement)
Himalayan ash (Fraxinus griffithii); Griffith's ash
Kyushu azalea (Rhododendron kiusianum)
yellow-breasted bunting (Emberiza aureola)
Bupleurum stenophyllum (species of medicinal herb)
Tsushima Faction (of the LDP)
small-scale version of the 88 temples of Shikoku (Awaji Island, Shōdoshima, etc.)
Nabeshima porcelains; Nabeshima ware
decorated flip-flops (esp. in Okinawa)
island platform; center platform; centre platform
Tamatsu Island (a fictional island in the Fortune Arterial visual novel)