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mainland Japan

[ meyn-land juh-pan, -luhnd ]

noun

  1. Japan’s four principal islands (Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku), as designated to distinguish them from the thousands of smaller islands of the Japanese archipelago.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of mainland Japan1

First recorded in 1800–10

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