Ryukyu Islands

NOUN
  1. a chain of 55 islands in the western Pacific to the to the southwest of Japan (returned by United States to Japan in 1972)
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How To Use Ryukyu Islands In A Sentence

  • Associated Press A dynamite blast sent debris high into the air as a U.S. Marines demolition crew blasted Japanese resistance in a cave on Okinawa on the Ryukyu Islands on May 21, 1945, during World War II. Moments in the Marine Corps
  • States Army Ryukyu Islands (USARYIS) Special Services where he was a radio operator 1965/66. Heroes or Villains?
  • The Northern Min culture centered on Fuzhou is marked by the early adoption of Buddhism, and shows influences of Japanese culture and Japanese cuisine through contacts made with the Ryukyu Islands.
  • Indo-Pacific: Christmas Island in the eastern Indian Ocean to the Hawaiian and Society islands, north to the Ryukyu Islands, south to Tonga and Rarotonga.
  • In view of the upheavals in East Asia that followed the war, including independence efforts in French Indo-China and the Dutch East Indies as well as a civil war in China, the fact that the United States effectively occupied Japan and the Ryukyu Islands meant that the U.S. strategic position was safe. Between War and Peace
  • In view of the upheavals in East Asia that followed the war, including independence efforts in French Indo-China and the Dutch East Indies as well as a civil war in China, the fact that the United States effectively occupied Japan and the Ryukyu Islands meant that the U.S. strategic position was safe. Between War and Peace
  • Late Thursday, Typhoon Muifa was positioned near the Ryukyu Islands, midway between Japan's main islands and Taiwan. China, Japan Brace for Super Typhoon
  • Operation Iceberg, the landing on the west coast of Okinawa, was designed to seize the largest of the Ryukyu Islands as a major staging base for the invasion of Kyushu. Between War and Peace
  • The Northern Min culture centered on Fuzhou is marked by the early adoption of Buddhism, and shows influences of Japanese culture and Japanese cuisine through contacts made with the Ryukyu Islands.
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