Meanings

small fish sliced open and pickled in a mixture of vinegar, sake, and salt

Okinawan language

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

to rise up into the air

Okinawa Socialist Masses Party

offshore 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)

Naval Battle off Malaya (December 10, 1941)

Okinawa soba (thick noodles served in a pork soup)

euphemisms used by superstitious sailors (e.g. calling sardines "sundries", whales "Ebisu", etc.)

Sanriku offshore earthquake (esp. June 15, 1896, March 3, 1933, and March 11, 2011)

Okinawan food

Okinawan tofu

1995 Okinawa rape incident

Okinawan studies

Okinawa Reversion Agreement (1971)

Lindera communis (species of spicebush)