Ryukyu

Stanford 1957.p. 295: Ryukyu is Chinese: Liu-ch'iu; Okinawa is one of the islands of this group.

A History of China Wolfram Eberhard 1949

Description: Okinawa Island is the largest island in the subtropical Ryukyu chain off the south-western coast of mainland Japan? and has been described as "with some stretch of the imagination, Japan's equivalent of Hawaii".

Biodiversity 100: actions for Asia Guillaume Chapron 2010

Operation Iceberg, the landing on the west coast of Okinawa, was designed to seize the largest of the Ryukyu Islands as a major staging base for the invasion of Kyushu.

Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011

The battle for Okinawa, the largest of the islands in the Ryukyu chain southwest of the home islands of Japan, had been designed by both sides as a preliminary to the climactic campaigns of the war in the Pacific: the American landing on the Japanese home island of Kyushu in November 1945 (Operation Olympic) and the Allied landing in Tokyo Bay in the spring of 1946 (Operation Coronet).

Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011

States Army Ryukyu Islands (USARYIS) Special Services where he was a radio operator 1965/66.

Heroes or Villains? 2010

In view of the upheavals in East Asia that followed the war, including independence efforts in French Indo-China and the Dutch East Indies as well as a civil war in China, the fact that the United States effectively occupied Japan and the Ryukyu Islands meant that the U.S. strategic position was safe.

Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011

Operation Iceberg, the landing on the west coast of Okinawa, was designed to seize the largest of the Ryukyu Islands as a major staging base for the invasion of Kyushu.

Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011

Late Thursday, Typhoon Muifa was positioned near the Ryukyu Islands, midway between Japan's main islands and Taiwan.

China, Japan Brace for Super Typhoon 2011

The battle for Okinawa, the largest of the islands in the Ryukyu chain southwest of the home islands of Japan, had been designed by both sides as a preliminary to the climactic campaigns of the war in the Pacific: the American landing on the Japanese home island of Kyushu in November 1945 (Operation Olympic) and the Allied landing in Tokyo Bay in the spring of 1946 (Operation Coronet).

Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011

Associated Press A dynamite blast sent debris high into the air as a U.S. Marines demolition crew blasted Japanese resistance in a cave on Okinawa on the Ryukyu Islands on May 21, 1945, during World War II.

Moments in the Marine Corps 2011