rope; cord; policeman's rope
Okinawa (city, prefecture)
stretching a rope around; roping off; one's turf; domain; territory (of an animal)
(piece of) rope; ordinary method
not straightforward; not dealt with by ordinary means
skipping rope; jump rope; skipping; rope-jumping
rope used to cordon off consecrated areas or as a talisman against evil
knot (in rope, etc.); bonds; arrest; rope impressions (on the surface of pottery)
to bind (a criminal) with rope; to arrest; to seize; to bind (something) with rope
leash; rope tied round prisoner's waists
Battle of Okinawa (April, 1945)
lineage; pedigree; ancestry
Okinawan food; Okinawan cuisine
ninja rope with grappling hook
measure taken too late; measure taken in haste
policeman's rope (used for restraining criminals)
not straightforward; not dealt with by ordinary means
criminal (bound by ropes); prisoner in bonds; being bound by ropes
lariat; lasso; slip noose
last minute; eleventh hour
fortune and misfortune are intertwined; fortune and misfortune come by turns; good luck and bad luck alternate (like the strands of a rope); good and bad fortune are next-door neighbours
crotch rope (in sexual bondage)
Okinawa Reversion Agreement (1971); Agreement between Japan and the United States of America Concerning the Ryukyu Islands and the Daito Islands
rope artist (in sexual bondage)
Okinawa soba (thick noodles served in a pork soup)
Okinawan (language); Okinawan dialect
water shield (Brasenia schreberi)
territorial behavior; territorial behaviour
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
quipu; khipu; talking knots
water yam (Dioscorea alata); winged yam; purple yam
once bitten twice shy; to become over cautious from a bad experience; (lit.) to be bitten by a snake and thus fear a rotten rope (which resembles a snake)
starting something in the eleventh hour; have not thy cloak to make when it begins to rain; don't lock the stable door after the horse has been stolen; braiding the rope only after the thief is caught
charpai (woven bed); charpai bed; charpoy
island time (on Okinawa); relaxed attitude to punctuality
slender rope that goes through the hole in a coin
Okinawa flying fox (Pteropus loochoensis)
Lindera communis (species of spicebush)
Muennink's spiny rat (Tokudaia muenninki); Okinawa spinous country-rat
halter (for restraining a horse, etc.)