1. Okinawa, the main island in the Ryukyu archipelago, is only seventy miles long and seven miles wide.

2. China had the suzerainty over Ryukyu since Ming Dynasty.

3. After leaving mainland Asia, the path crosses Japan's Ryukyu Islands and curves southeast through the Pacific Ocean where the maximum duration of totality reaches 6 min 39 s.

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

5. Indo-Pacific: East Africa to Samoa, north to the Ryukyu Islands, south to the Great Barrier Reef and New Caledonia.

6. It will then cross Japan's Ryukyu Islands and curve southeast through the Pacific Ocean.

7. Melting features along the Ryukyu slab tear , beneath the southwestern Okinawa Trough.

8. A city of southwest Okinawa, Japan, in the Ryukyu Islands on the East China Sea . It is a port and the commercial center of the islands.

9. In the negotiation about Ryukyu problem, Li Hongzhang's delay policy further impaired Qing's suzerainty.

10. In the regions east and south of the Ryukyu Islands, there are some mesoscale cyclonic and anticyclonic eddies with different scales, and the variability of their character is also reviewed.

11. The fleet was assembling near the Ryukyu Islands, waiting to launch a fatal surprise attack on the US Navy, to repeat Pearl Harbor and Leyte Gulf.

12. Distribution: The Philippines, Taiwan, Ryukyu Islands. A common ornamental and windbreak tree.

13. The history of Han literature on Ryukyu Islands is a topic that no body has studied yet.

14. A city of southwest Okinawa, Japan, in the Ryukyu Islands on the East China Sea. It is a port and the commercial center of the islands. Population, 303, '80.

15. The Northern Min culture centered on Fuzhou is marked by the early adoption of Buddhism, and shows influences of Japanese culture and Japanese cuisine through contacts made with the Ryukyu Islands.

16. He and two of the original crew had been dropped in their opensailing boat by an American whaling ship off the Ryukyu Islands.

17. Japan, which in the 19th century took on board western notions of the sovereign state, absorbed Ryukyu (now Okinawa) and went on forcibly to incorporate much of Asia into its short-lived empire.

18. The Haiti quake was caused by different regional plates than the Chile and Ryukyu temblors.

19. This soup was a part of the royal court cuisine of Ryukyu Kingdom; it is thought to have analeptic properties.

20. Overview of studies on some cyclonic and anti-cyclonic eddies is made in the East China Sea and the region east of the Ryukyu Islands.

21. Researchers have discovered a potential new species of comb, or ctenophore, jellyfish near the Ryukyu Trench near Japan.

22. Kuroshio in the East China Sea(KECS)and the currents in the east of the Ryukyu Islands are investigated by analyzing the up-to-date reanalysisdataof the high resolution ocean model.

23. It mainly focuses on the analysis of the Satsumahan s effect on the dispatch of overseas students, the selection test of official students, and Chinese teachers for Ryukyu oversea students, etc.

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24. Indo-Pacific: Christmas Island in the eastern Indian Ocean to the Hawaiian and Society islands, north to the Ryukyu Islands, south to Tonga and Rarotonga.

25. The Sea of Japan had been tranquil but this route, on the western edge of the Pacific Ocean, past the Ryukyu Islands and into the East China Sea, is notorious for high seas and typhoons.

26. Gazetteer Indo- West Pacific: Sulawesi (Indonesia) to Philippines and Ryukyu Islands.

27. Indo-Pacific: Red Sea to Sodwana Bay, South Africa and to the Society Islands, north to the Ryukyu Islands, south to New Caledonia.

28. Gazetteer Indo-West Pacific: western and southern coasts of India and off Sri Lanka to Indonesia, the Philippines and Ryukyu Islands, and south to the northern part of Australia (Ref. 3131).