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Okinawa (city, prefecture)

straw-rope pattern pressed into earthenware

stretching a rope around

rope

(piece of) rope

Jōmon people

Jōmon period (ca. 14000-1000 BCE)

knot (in rope, etc.)

footpath between rice fields

pre-Jomon period (i.e. the preceramic period)

quipu

lasso

not straightforward

post-Jōmon period (mainly Hokkaido; 3rd to 7th century BCE)

not straightforward

leash

Okinawa University

Okinawan person

Okinawan (language)

knotted cords used to record figures, facts, etc.

straw rope-patterned ancient Japanese pottery

knotted cord or rope

territorial behavior

turf war

Okinawan Japanese

straw-rope pattern pottery

Okinawan language

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

Okinawan studies

Okinawa Electric Power Co., Inc.

fuse

criminal (bound by ropes)

halter (for restraining a horse, etc.)

Okinawa Prefecture

Okinawa International University

rope artist (in sexual bondage)

Okinawan food

Battle of Okinawa (April, 1945)

Okinawa Urban Monorail

a level and inked string

Okinawa Women's Junior College

Okinawa Christian University

cord

Okinawa Socialist Masses Party

Okinawa Prefectural Police (abbr)

cable needle (knitting)

Okinawan (language)

Okinawa Development Agency (1972-2001)

policeman's rope (used for restraining criminals)

policeman's rope (used for restraining criminals)

longline

cable stitch

escaping

lariat

lineage

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

being caught in one's own trap

Director General of Okinawa Development Agency

last-minute

Okinawa Television Broadcasting Corporation

Lindera communis (species of spicebush)

policeman's rope

charpai (woven bed)

rope used to cordon off consecrated areas or as a talisman against evil

rope curtain

ninja rope with grappling hook

Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts

Okinawa Reversion Agreement (1971)

packing cord

longline fishing

Okinawa Prefectural College of Nursing

straw rope

Okinawa Office of Telecommunications

hemp rope

to be caught in one's own trap

rope ladder

to bind (a criminal) with rope

water shield (Brasenia schreberi)

water yam (Dioscorea alata)

hangman's noose

1995 Okinawa rape incident

leash

State Minister in Charge of Issues of Okinawa and Northern Territories

Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University

end of a rope

rules and standards

measure taken too late

Okinawan tofu

standard

Okinawa Development Finance Corporation

Muennink's spiny rat (Tokudaia muenninki)

fortune and misfortune are intertwined

Okinawa Prefectural Urasoe School of Nursing

crotch rope (in sexual bondage)

Okinawa flying fox (Pteropus loochoensis)

starting something in the eleventh hour

slender rope that goes through the hole in a coin

matchlock

rope dart

once bitten twice shy

skipping rope