耳鳴り: tinnitus

方位磁針: magnetic compass

age of eighty-eight (from the shape of the character 米 which contains the letters 八 in the upper and lower parts)

総理大臣: (government, politics) prime minister

異星人: alien

島外人: (colloquial) island foreigner; A person who is not of Japanese descent but lives in Okinawa, Japan as a preference and who has adjusted to the customs of the Okinawan people and lifestyle.

現代人: modern man/person

single transferable vote

海松: a type of seaweed / 水松: a type of seaweed

見る: to see / 看る: to look after, take care of / 観る: to view (flowers, a movie) / 視る: to see (an area struck by a disaster) / 診る: to examine (medical) / 回る: to turn, revolve / 廻る: to turn, revolve