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.

Origin of mainland Japan

1
First recorded in 1800–10

Words Nearby mainland Japan

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