Hateruma

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 波照間 (Hateruma).

Proper noun

Hateruma

1. An island in the Yaeyama Islands in Okinawa, Japan. This is the southernmost inhabited island in Japan.
   • 2022 August 4, Huizhong Wu, Johnson Lai, “China claims ‘precision missile strikes’ in Taiwan Strait”, in AP News‎^[1], archived from the original on 04 August 2022:

     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.”