Okinawa
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- proper noun
- /oʊkɪˈnɑːwə/
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Okinawa
- WELL, IF LONG LIFE IS AN INDICATION OF HAPPINESS, THEN THE PEOPLE IN OKINAWA, JAPAN, MIGHT JUST BE ECSTATIC.
- Okinawa, Japan
- Japanese in Okinawa
- U.S. bases in Okinawa
OK, so I went, I first went to Okinawa, Japan.
- OK, so I went, I first went to Okinawa, Japan.
- My grandfather met her while he was on tour for Vietnam and he was in Okinawa.
- You've been to Okinawa quite a number of times and I've spent a little bit of time there.
- And then after that, that contract finished, I, I've an opportunity, opportunity, shall we say, opened up in Okinawa in Japan.
- You know, that is purple Okinawa potatoes.
- And in Costa Rica, it's plan de Vida in, in Okinawa, it's ikigai.
- Couple deployments overseas with stay platoon back to the Philippines, to Okinawa, all through the Far East.
- And I I came out of Vietnam about four months later, back-to-back to restage in Okinawa.
- She has travelled the world and interviewed people in places like Okinawa and Israel and Africa all over the world.
- That's one thing that when I was in Okinawa, I learned was, man, that was the first time I felt like I didn't have to feel like I was black.
- You have a huge amount of Marines ready to know on Okinawa it was a big and they were going to just go right across the DMZ into Laos that way.
- Oh my God, hold on, I gotta call the main job in fucking Okinawa and get these toys.
- And I do wish they went like a little more deep into the research on Okinawa, but maybe that's just because I love cultural anthropology and that's nice shit.
Examples
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I have to be in Okinawa by two o'clock tomorrow.
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The Ryukuz Islands form a thin cluster of small land masses stretching from Kyushu to Taiwan, with Okinawa being the largest and most populated in the chain.
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Now, that movie was shot and took place in Okinawa, which is southern part of Japan.
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Next week is the school trip in Okinawa!
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I was born in Japan, at a military base in Okinawa.
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The islands of Okinawa and Jeju are well known for their pork food culture.
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She has travelled the world and interviewed people in places like Okinawa and Israel and Africa all over the world.
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The Army in Okinawa experienced a dengue outbreak during spring and summer 1945.
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However, on islands such as Jeju and Okinawa, pig sacrifice has been widely practiced.
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I want to visit Okinawa, the largest island in the southern part of Japan.
Synonyms
A large island in southern Japan known for warm weather, beaches, and history
Compounds
A large 1945 fight on Okinawa in World War II where United States troops captured the island from Japan
A series of battles in 1945 when United States forces captured the island of Okinawa from Japan
Surface Forms
Etymology
Okinawa comes from Japanese parts oki ('offshore' or 'open sea') and nawa ('rope'), and a helpful image is a 'rope in the open sea' marking a distant place. So the name fits: Okinawa is an island (or group of islands) out to the south of mainland Japan.