沖

Okinawa (city, prefecture)

off the coast

open sea

staying in Okinawa

coming to Okinawa

US troops stationed in Okinawa

Battle of the Philippine Sea (June 19-20, 1944)

Battle of Leyte Gulf (October 23-25, 1944)

Naval Battle off Malaya (December 10, 1941)

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

rising into the heavens

Okinawa Electric Power Company (abbr)

alluvial epoch (i.e. the Holocene epoch)

alluvial soil

alluvial plain

alluvial series

alluvial period

Okinawan pachinko parlor slot machine

of the ocean

krill

to rise up into the air

Okinawa University

Okinawan person

longshoreman

Okinawan (language)

Okinawan Japanese

offshore earthquake

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

offshore wave

alluvial

Okinawan language

Okinawan time (i.e. a relaxed attitude to punctuality sometimes ascribed to Okinawans)

offshore fishing industry

Okinawan studies

Okinawa Electric Power Co., Inc.

Okinawa Prefecture

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

Okinawa International University

Okinawan food

Battle of Okinawa (April, 1945)

false killer whale (Pseudorca crassidens)

Okinawa Urban Monorail

Okinawa Women's Junior College

Okinawa Christian University

Okinawa Socialist Masses Party

Okinawa Prefectural Police (abbr)

alluvium

Okinawan (language)

Okinawa Development Agency (1972-2001)

Okinawa soba (thick noodles served in a pork soup)

Okinawan time (i.e. a relaxed attitude to punctuality sometimes ascribed to Okinawans)

Okinawa Christian Junior College

Director General of Okinawa Development Agency

Okinawa Television Broadcasting Corporation

Lindera communis (species of spicebush)

Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts

Okinawa Reversion Agreement (1971)

offshore fishing

Okinawa Prefectural College of Nursing

Okinawa Office of Telecommunications

The Great Wave off Kanagawa (woodblock print by Hokusai)

offshore trawl fishery

Tōhoku earthquake (March 11, 2011)

warty frog shell (Bursa bufonia dunkeri)

water yam (Dioscorea alata)

1995 Okinawa rape incident

State Minister in Charge of Issues of Okinawa and Northern Territories

Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University

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

flotsam crab (Planes cyaneus)

Okinawan tofu

Okinawa Development Finance Corporation

Muennink's spiny rat (Tokudaia muenninki)

Okinawa Prefectural Urasoe School of Nursing

Okinawa flying fox (Pteropus loochoensis)

bluntnose lizardfish (Trachinocephalus myops)