Meanings
- An island in the Yaeyama Islands in Okinawa, Japan. This is the southernmost inhabited island in Japan.
1 more example
Five of the missiles fired by China landed in Japan’s Exclusive Economic Zone off Hateruma, an island far south of Japan’s main islands, Japanese Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi said. He said Japan protested the missile landings to China as “serious threats to Japan’s national security and the safety of the Japanese people.”
2022 August 4, Huizhong Wu, Johnson Lai, “China claims ‘precision missile strikes’ in Taiwan Strait”, in AP News, archived from the original on 04 Aug 2022
Origin
- Japanese波照間
- EnglishHateruma
Borrowed from Japanese 波照間 (Hateruma).
More words from Japanese
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Chinese 波照間 /波照间
- 波照間 /波照间island in Japan
Japanese 波照間
- 波照間 (Hateruma)island in Japan
Cite this entry
Hateruma. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Hateruma
“Hateruma.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Hateruma. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Hateruma,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Hateruma.
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