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The Ryukyu Islands are a volcanic arc archipelago.
Ryukyu may also refer to:
- Kingdom of Ryukyu, a former kingdom annexed by the Empire of Japan
- Ryukyuan language
- Ryukyuan people
Usage examples of "ryukyu".
Miyuki seldom left her pristine computer lab at Ryukyu University, and was rarely spotted without her starched and pressed lab coat.
British Columbia to study at Ryukyu University and complete her doctoral thesis on Micronesian cultures, searching for clues to the origins and migration patterns of the early Polynesians.
She pulled out her Ryukyu University identification card and flashed it at the man.
The Ryukyu chain of islands spread south in an arc almost stretching to Taiwan.
Taiwan was too close for comfort, just south of the Ryukyu chain of islands, of which Okinawa was a part.
The landing strip in the Ryukyu Islands is under lease to NASA and the American Air Force.
East China Sea was guarded by a long arc of islands, the Ryukyu chain.
At this point we can only guess what our position is, but from some of the flyovers done by charter aircraft, and by guessing our speed, we estimate that within the hour we should be crossing the line of the Ryukyu Island chain, which is the border of the East China Sea.
They all pass through the Ryukyu Island chain about here, give or take a few miles.
Each drop of Ryukyu cinnabar that he mixed with alcohol and thrust in was a drop of his lifeblood.
Russia and North Korea got copy on any ships leaving through the Sea of Japan and especially submarines, and anyone making port at Taiwan or the Ryukyu Islands might as well forget it.
This agenda was never introduced to other American-occupied areas in Asia such as the southern half of Korea and the southern reaches of Japan itselfOkinawa and the Ryukyu Islandswhere harsh strategic considerations held sway.
April 1 Okinawa, largest of the Ryukyu chain lying between Formosa and the southern tip of Japan, had been invaded and was currently being fought for in the fiercest, costliest and most savagely defended of all the island battles.
Often they landed on islands in the Ryukyu chain and were obliged to make their way home as best they could.
China and was introduced to Japan via the Ryukyu Islands, was coming into vogue among chanters.