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Fukushima (city, prefecture)

Yamato (province); Japan; the art of classical Japanese poetry

all over the island; throughout the island; on the island

exile; banishment

left utterly helpless; have no one to turn to; unapproachable

Tokushima (city, prefecture)

left utterly helpless; have no one to turn to; unapproachable

faint outlines of an island; vague shape of an island; silhouette of an island

left utterly helpless; have no one to turn to; unapproachable

Shimane (prefecture); (arch.) island country

island chief

Kurile Islands

brought up on an island

floating island (mass of floating aquatic plants); island that appears to be floating (due to the mirage effect)

Shimabara Rebellion (1637-1638)

Onigashima; island of ogres (in Japanese folklore)

island mountain

island wind

left utterly helpless (e.g. by a curt reply or refusal); have no one to turn to; unapproachable

left utterly helpless (e.g. by a curt reply or refusal); have no one to turn to; unapproachable

islands

Yamato; (ancient) Japan

left utterly helpless; have no one to turn to; unapproachable

ornament representing the Isle of Eternal Youth

lee of an island; area hidden by an island

left utterly helpless (e.g. by a curt reply or refusal); have no one to turn to; unapproachable

Oshima tsumugi weave; type of pongee from Oshima

traditional Okinawan folk music

island tour

galaxy; island universe

from island to island; island-hopping

mythical island inhabited only by women; isle of women; women-only location

time dilation

striped cloth

island language; island dialect

Rip van Winkle effect (for a woman); feeling that everything has changed once one comes back to Japan (for a woman)

Takeshima problem

Japan

matchlock; arquebus; harquebus

island language; island dialect

Mishima cattle

small-scale version of the 88 temples of Shikoku (Awaji Island, Shōdoshima, etc.)

island constraint

decorated flip-flops (esp. in Okinawa)

Nabeshima porcelains; Nabeshima ware

Nabeshima porcelains; Nabeshima ware

Tsushima Faction (of the LDP)

decorated flip-flops (esp. in Okinawa)

Okinawan pig breed

Blakiston's fish owl (Bubo blakistoni)

striped jack (Pseudocaranx dentex); white trevally

Arisaema urashima (species of cobra lily)

mother tongue (from the island where one was raised); Okinawan neologism (developed by the language revival movement)

mother tongue (from the island where one was raised); Okinawan neologism (developed by the language revival movement)

chrysanthemum (Chrysanthemum indicum)

many islands

Mount Penglai; Japan

Tamatsu Island (a fictional island in the Fortune Arterial visual novel)

Nakashima Station (Hiroshima)

Takashima Station

Hakushima Station

Kanashima Station

Ushima Station