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Okinawan food; Okinawan cuisine

not straightforward; not dealt with by ordinary means; very hard to manage

straw rope-patterned ancient Japanese pottery

rope curtain

bar; pub

Organization name

Okinawa Electric Power Co., Inc.; OEPC

Proverb

fortune and misfortune are intertwined; fortune and misfortune come by turns; good luck and bad luck alternate (like the strands of a rope); good and bad fortune are next-door neighbours

to be caught in one's own trap

Organization name

Okinawa University

Okinawa soba (thick noodles served in a pork soup)

rules and standards; norms; criteria

Organization name

Okinawa Development Finance Corporation; ODFC

Okinawan (language); Okinawan dialect

Okinawa Socialist Masses Party

Proverb

once bitten twice shy; to become over cautious from a bad experience; to be bitten by a snake and thus fear a rotten rope (which resembles a snake)

Proverb

starting something in the eleventh hour; have not thy cloak to make when it begins to rain; don't lock the stable door after the horse has been stolen; braiding the rope only after the thief is caught

State Minister in Charge of Issues of Okinawa and Northern Territories

Okinawa flying fox (Pteropus loochoensis)

cable needle (knitting)

knotted cords used to record figures, facts, etc.; quipu

Okinawan tofu

Muennink's spiny rat (Tokudaia muenninki); Okinawa spinous country-rat

Zoology

territorial behavior; territorial behaviour

Lindera communis (species of spicebush)

Okinawan Japanese