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

The hiragana syllable ひ (hi). Its equivalent in katakana is ヒ (hi). It is the twenty-seventh syllable in the gojūon order; its position is は行い段 (ha-gyō i-dan, “row ha, section i”).

(emphatic, before an adjective, non-productive) indeed, truly

(onomatopoeia) A shriek, as when recoiling in fear or disgust.

手の平, 掌: palm (inner, concave part of hand)