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Okinawa (jap. 沖縄本島 Okinawa hontō; główna wyspa Okinawa) – największa wyspa archipelagu Riukiu, znajdująca się w jego środkowej części, 1 084 253 mieszkańców (2006), pow. 1,21 tys. km², nizinna.
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Okinawa Island (沖縄島, Okinawa-jima, Okinawan: 沖縄/うちなー, Uchinaa [4] Kunigami: ふちなー, Fuchináa), officially Okinawa Main Island (沖縄本島, Okinawa-hontō), [5] is the largest of the Okinawa Islands and the Ryukyu (Nansei) Islands of Japan in the Kyushu region.
Since records began in 1951, an average of 2.6 typhoons reached the main islands of Kyushu, Shikoku, Honshu and Hokkaido per year. Okinawa is, due to its geographic location, most vulnerable to typhoons with an average of 7 storms per year.
B yen (B円, B en) was a colloquial term used to refer to a form of military scrip used in post-war US-Occupied Okinawa from April 15, 1946, to September 1958. [1] [2] Officially, it was called B type military scrip (B型軍票, B-gata gunpyō). [3]
Okinawa was ruled by the Ryukyu Kingdom from 1429 and unofficially annexed by Japan after the Invasion of Ryukyu in 1609. Okinawa was officially founded in 1879 by the Empire of Japan after seven years as the Ryukyu Domain, the last domain of the Han system.
Okinawa experienced two rounds of monetary union: once in September 1958 (when it was incorporated into the monetary system of the United States, with the U.S. dollar becoming legal tender), and again in May 1972 (when political sovereignty over Okinawa was returned to Japan). Our interest in Okinawa naturally stems from the estab-
The Okinawa Reversion Agreement (Japanese: 沖縄返還協定, Hepburn: Okinawa henkan kyōtei) was an agreement between the United States and Japan in which the United States agreed to relinquish in favor of Japan all rights and interests under Article III of the Treaty of San Francisco, which had been obtained as a result of the Pacific War ...
