Definition of Ryukyu Islands

1. Noun. A chain of 55 islands in the western Pacific to the to the southwest of Japan (returned by United States to Japan in 1972).

Group relationships: Japan, Nihon, Nippon
Terms within: Okinawa
Generic synonyms: Archipelago

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ryukyu Islands

Rydberg
Rydberg's penstemon
Rydberg atom
Rydberg atoms
Rydberg constant
Rydberg molecule
Ryder
Rylan
Ryle's tube
Rylee
Rynchopidae
Rynchops
Rypticus
Ryukyu
Ryukyu Islands (current term)
Ryukyuan
Ryukyuans
Rzhevsky
Rœulx
Réaumur
Réunion
Rígsþula
Río San Juan
S
S&A
S&H
S&L
S&O

Literary usage of Ryukyu Islands

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

1. A History of the Japanese People from the Earliest Times to the End of the by Frank Brinkley, Dairoku Kikuchi (1915)
"THE RYUKYU COMPLICATION A fact collaterally established by the Formosan affair was that the Ryukyu Islands belonged to Japan, and, in 1876, the system of ..."

2. A History of the Japanese People from the Earliest Times to the End of the by Frank Brinkley, Dairoku Kikuchi (1915)
"A fact collaterally established by the Formosan affair was that the Ryukyu Islands belonged to Japan, and, in 1876, the system of local government already ..."

3. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1905)
"... Mr. Nakada in the Ryukyu Islands and by Mr. Azuma in Satsuma and its islands, are dealt with, together with a few forms from other parts of the empire. ..."

4. Japan: Continuing the History to the Close of 1905, with the Provisions of by David Murray, Kentaro Kaneko, Albert White Vorse (1906)
"This is attempted to be accounted for by the drifting of Malay castaways along the equatorial current upon the Ryukyu islands, whence they spread to the ..."

5. Japan by David Murray (1894)
"This is attempted to be accounted for by the drifting of Malay castaways along the equatorial current upon the Ryukyu islands, whence they spread to the ..."

6. Japan by David Murray (1906)
"This is attempted to be accounted for by the drifting of Malay castaways along the equatorial current upon the Ryukyu islands, whence they spread to the ..."

7. The Story of Japan by David Murray (1894)
"This is attempted to be accounted for by the drifting of Malay castaways along the equatorial current upon the Ryukyu islands, whence they spread to the ..."

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