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JAPANESE ISLANDS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Synonyms:
Japan; Japanese Archipelago; Japanese Islands
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
archipelago (a group of many islands in a large body of water)
Meronyms (parts of "Japanese Islands"):
Ezo; Hokkaido; Yezo (the second largest of the four main islands of Japan; to the north of Honshu)
Hondo; Honshu (the central and largest of the four main islands of Japan; between the Sea of Japan and the Pacific Ocean; regarded as the Japanese mainland)
Kyushu (the southernmost of the four main islands of Japan; contains coal fields)
Shikoku (the smallest of the four main islands of Japan; to the south of Honshu and to the east of Kyushu; separated from Honshu by the Inland Sea; forested and mountainous)
Osaka Bay (a bay of the western Pacific in southern Honshu)
Holonyms ("Japanese Islands" is a part of...):
Pacific; Pacific Ocean (the largest ocean in the world)
