first island chain in Japanese

first island chain in Japanese is 第一列島線.

first island chain in Japanese

第一列島線

proper noun

(geopolitics) The first chain of major archipelagos out from the East Asian continental mainland coast. Principally composed of the Kuril Islands, Ryukyu Islands, Taiwan, the northern Philippines, Japan, and Borneo; from the Kamchatka Peninsula to the Malay Peninsula.

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