Definition of Japanese Islands

1. Noun. A string of more than 3,000 islands to the east of Asia extending 1,300 miles between the Sea of Japan and the western Pacific Ocean.

Exact synonyms: Japan, Japanese Archipelago
Terms within: Ezo, Hokkaido, Yezo, Hondo, Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku, Osaka Bay
Generic synonyms: Archipelago
Group relationships: Pacific, Pacific Ocean

Lexicographical Neighbors of Japanese Islands

Japan allspice
Japan bittersweet
Japan cedar
Japan current
Japan tallow
Japan wax
Japanazi
Japanazis
Japanese
Japanese-speaking
Japanese Archipelago
Japanese B encephalitis virus
Japanese Bobtail
Japanese Bobtails
Japanese Giant Salamanders
Japanese Islands (current term)
Japanese Red Army
Japanese Sign Language
Japanese allspice
Japanese amberjack
Japanese andromeda
Japanese angelica tree
Japanese apricot
Japanese banana
Japanese barberry
Japanese barnyard millet
Japanese beech
Japanese beetle
Japanese bittersweet
Japanese black pine

Literary usage of Japanese Islands

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. International Catalogue of Scientific Literature by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1905)
"3), 33, 1903, (257). Yabe, YOK! itada. Distribution of Korean ferns. (Japanese) Tokyo Bot. Mag., 17. 1903, (53-56). ее Japanese Islands. ..."

2. Japan: Continuing the History to the Close of 1905, with the Provisions of by David Murray, Kentaro Kaneko, Albert White Vorse (1906)
"The greater part skirts the Japanese islands on their east coast, imparting to ... The Japanese islands are in the region of the northeast monsoon,1 which ..."

3. Advance Japan: A Nation Thoroughly in Earnest by John Morris (1895)
"THE Japanese Islands. OTWITHSTANDING the fact that Japan was known to the intrepid navigators of Queen Elizabeth's reign, and at least one Englishman held ..."

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