Meanings

the Marshall Islands

Ryukyu Islands

Ryukyu Islands

traditional Okinawan folk music

Hiroshima-style okonomiyaki (usu. contains noodles and meat and/or seafood which are not mixed in with the batter)

Tsushima Faction (of the LDP)

Nansei Islands

return to an island

Hiroshima (city, prefecture)

larger whales of family Delphinidae (esp. the pilot whale or blackfish)

Arisaema urashima (species of cobra lily)

Gulag Archipelago (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)

Austronesian languages

Sakurajima daikon (the largest variety of radish in the world)

Oshima cherry (Prunus speciosa)

Onokoro Island (island formed by drops of water falling from the heavenly jeweled spear)

Liancourt Rocks dispute (territorial dispute between Japan and South Korea)

chain of volcanic islands

Mishima cattle

island group