Okinawa (city, prefecture)
off the coast; offshore; out at sea
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)
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
Tōhoku earthquake (March 11, 2011); Tohoku earthquake; Sendai Earthquake; Great East Japan Earthquake
Battle of Leyte Gulf (October 23-25, 1944)
offing wave; deep water wave
Okinawa soba (thick noodles served in a pork soup)
Okinawan (language); Okinawan dialect
euphemisms used by superstitious sailors (e.g. calling sardines "sundries", whales "Ebisu", etc.)
coming to Okinawa; visiting Okinawa
1995 Okinawa rape incident; kidnapping and rape of a 12-year-old Japanese girl by three U.S. servicemen stationed in Okinawa
State Minister in Charge of Issues of Okinawa and Northern Territories
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
water yam (Dioscorea alata); winged yam; purple yam
island time (on Okinawa); relaxed attitude to punctuality
krill; euphasiid (any species in the family Euphausiacea)
false killer whale (Pseudorca crassidens)
Okinawa flying fox (Pteropus loochoensis)
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