Names and Extents
In English, the island chain as a whole is called "Ryukyu". In Japanese, however, terminology is more complicated.
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“A knowledge that people live close by is,
I think, enough. And even if only first names are ever exchanged
The people who own them seem rock-true and marvelously self-sufficient.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)