Yonaguni
English
Etymology
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Proper noun
Yonaguni
- An island of Japan, part of the Yaeyama archipelago, the westmost inhabited island of Japan.
- 2022 May 9, Blanchard, Ben, “Taiwan rattled by 6.1 magnitude quake, no immediate damage reported”, in Kim Coghill, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 09 May 2022, Asia Pacific:
- The quake had a depth of 27.5 km (17.1 miles) with its epicentre 89.5 km (55.6 miles) off Taiwan's east coast, roughly halfway between the coast of Hualien county and the southern Japanese island of Yonaguni, the weather bureau said.
- 2022 August 5, Kuhn, Anthony, “On Japan's Yonaguni island, fears of being on the front line of a Taiwan conflict”, in NPR, archived from the original on 05 August 2022, World:
- For years it was known as the "Two Gun" island – one gun for each of the two policemen stationed here.
Yonaguni, Japan's most westerly island, can feel like a peaceful paradise — it is covered in tropical forests and hammerhead sharks glide through its azure waters.
But there is trouble on the horizon. Almost 70 miles away lies the island of Taiwan — the self-governing democracy which once again finds itself in the headlines.
On Thursday, six Chinese ballistic missiles landed in water near Japan's southwestern islands, one of them near Yonaguni and five others within Japan's Exclusive Economic Zone, according to the Japanese authorities.
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- A Ryukyuan language spoken on the island of Yonaguni.
Japanese
Romanization
Yonaguni
- Rōmaji transcription of よなぐに