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2. Okinawa Island - Wikipedia

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   Okinawa is the fifth largest island of Japan. The island has an area of 1,206.99 square kilometers (466.02 sq mi). The coastline is 476 kilometers (296 mi) long. [ 36] The straight-line distance is about 106.6 kilometers (66.2 mi) from north to south. [ 37] Okinawa is in the northeastern end of Okinawa Prefecture.

3. Okinawa Islands - Wikipedia

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   The Okinawa Islands (沖縄諸島, Okinawa Shotō, or 沖縄群島, Okinawa Guntō) are an island group in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan and are the principal island group of the prefecture. [ 1] The Okinawa Islands are part of the larger Ryukyu Islands group and are located between the Amami Islands of Kagoshima Prefecture to the northeast and the ...

4. Okinawa Prefecture - Wikipedia

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   Okinawa Prefecture's largest island, Okinawa Island, is the home to a majority of Okinawa's population. Okinawa's indigenous ethnic group is the Ryukyuan people, who also live in the Amami Islands of Kagoshima Prefecture. Okinawa was ruled by the Ryukyu Kingdom from 1429 and unofficially annexed by Japan after the Invasion of Ryukyu in 1609.

5. Typhoon Mawar losing strength as it heads toward Japan's ...

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   Typhoon Mawar appeared to be losing force as it headed Wednesday toward Japan's Okinawa Islands, where the United States maintains a significant military presence, after largely skirting Taiwan ...

6. Ryukyu Islands - Wikipedia

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   The Ryukyu Islands[ note 1] (琉球列島, Ryūkyū-rettō), also known as the Nansei Islands (南西諸島, Nansei-shotō, lit. "Southwest Islands") or the Ryukyu Arc (琉球弧, Ryūkyū-ko), are a chain of Japanese islands that stretch southwest from Kyushu to Taiwan: the Ōsumi, Tokara, Amami, Okinawa, and Sakishima Islands (further divided ...

7. Japan's rapid military build-up a worry for Okinawans ... - AOL

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   By Yukiko Toyoda and Tim Kelly. TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's rapid military build-up is worrying residents of the Okinawa islands close to Taiwan, their governor said Thursday, further straining ...