mainland Japan
[ meyn-land juh-pan, -luhnd ]
noun
Japan’s four principal islands (Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku), as designated to distinguish them from the thousands of smaller islands of the Japanese archipelago.
Origin of mainland Japan
1First recorded in 1800–10
Words Nearby mainland Japan
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