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Hateruma

Hateruma proper noun: an island in the Yaeyama Islands in Okinawa, Japan. This is the southernmost inhabited island in Japan.

Proper noun

Hateruma

  1. An island in the Yaeyama Islands in Okinawa, Japan. This is the southernmost inhabited island in Japan.
    • Five of the missiles fired by China landed in Japan’s Exclusive Economic Zone off Hateruma, an island far south of Japan’s main islands, Japanese Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi said. He said Japan protested the missile landings to China as “serious threats to Japan’s national security and the safety...2022 August 4, Huizhong Wu, Johnson Lai, “China claims ‘precision missile strikes’ in Taiwan Strait”, in AP News, archived from the original on 04 Aug 2022

Origin of Hateruma

Borrowed from Japanese 波照間 (Hateruma).

Questions about Hateruma

What does Hateruma mean?
Hateruma means an island in the Yaeyama Islands in Okinawa, Japan. This is the southernmost inhabited island in Japan.
What part of speech is Hateruma?
Hateruma is a proper noun.

Words near Hateruma in the dictionary

  1. hateration
  2. hateress
  3. hateresses
  4. haters
  5. haters gonna hate
  6. Hateruma
  7. haterumalide
  8. hates
  9. hates on
  10. hates someone's guts
  11. hates the sin but loves the sinner

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