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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.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of mainland Japan1
First recorded in 1800–10
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