open sea ②Okinawa

Okinawa (city, prefecture)

off the coast

Okinawa Prefecture

Okinawan food

Battle of Okinawa (April, 1945)

Okinawa soba (thick noodles served in a pork soup)

longshoreman

offshore fishing

offshore fishing industry

offshore trawl fishery

State Minister in Charge of Issues of Okinawa and Northern Territories

small fish sliced open and pickled in a mixture of vinegar, sake, and salt ②seafood pickled in soy (esp. squid)

Sumatra-Andaman earthquake (2004, resulting in the Indian Ocean tsunami)

Okinawa Socialist Masses Party

offing wave

water yam (Dioscorea alata)

Battle of the Philippine Sea (June 19-20, 1944)

Tōhoku earthquake (March 11, 2011)

Battle of Leyte Gulf (October 23-25, 1944)

rising into the heavens

alluvial

alluvial period

alluvial epoch (i.e. the Holocene epoch)

alluvium

alluvial soil

alluvial plain

alluvial series

to rise up into the air

US troops stationed in Okinawa

staying in Okinawa