Hateruma

English Haterumajima Etymology Borrowed from en ja 波照間 Hateruma. Pronunciation en Proper noun An island in the Yaeyama Islands in Okinawa, Japan. This is the southernmost inhabited island in Japan. en 04 August 2022 Huizhong Wu; Johnson Lai China claims ‘precision missile strikes’ in Taiwan Strait https://web.archive.org/web/20220804162303/https://apnews.com/article/taiwan-asia-navy-china-air-force-4bd08ab9ecd2a9f7d450cf61618d28af 04 August 2022 w:AP News 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.” Translations island in Japan Chinese: zh 波照間 Japanese: ja 波照間 はてるま, Hateruma en Places in Japan