Information: - Okinawa has been a critical strategic location for the United States Armed Forces since the end of World War II. The island hosts around 26,000 US military personnel, about half of the total complement of the United States Forces Japan, spread among 32 bases and 48 training sites. US bases in Okinawa played critical roles in the Korean War, Vietnam War, War in Afghanistan and Iraq War. The presence of the US military in Okinawa has caused political controversy both on the island and elsewhere in Japan. - Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a state in East Asia. Neighbors include China (officially the People's Republic of China, abbreviated as PRC) to the west, Japan to the northeast, and the Philippines to the south. Taiwan is the most populous state that is not a member of the United Nations, and the one with the largest economy. - Shaved "Katsuobushi" and dried kelp - "kombu" - are the main ingredients of "dashi", a broth that forms the basis of many soups (such as miso) and sauces (e.g., "soba no tsukejiru") in Japanese cuisine. - Okinawa soba ( ) is a type of noodle soup produced in Okinawa Prefecture , Japan . In Okinawa , it is sometimes simply called soba , or suba in many Okinawan dialects , although it is different from buckwheat noodles known as soba in the rest of Japan . The thick wheat noodles resemble udon , while the soup is more similar to that of ramen . The noodles tend to have a circular cross section in the Yaeyama Islands , and tend to be slightly flat in the rest of the Okinawan archipelago . It is served in a broth flavored with konbu ( edible seaweed ) , katsuobushi flakes and pork . Standard toppings are kamaboko ( fish cake ) , sliced scallion and a thick slice of stewed san - mai niku ( , pork belly ; lit. '' three - layer meat '' ) or soki ( boneless pork ribs ) , and usually garnished with beni shga ( pickled ginger ) . For extra spice , diners can add a few drops of krgsu ( , '' Korean pepper '' ) , which consists of chile peppers soaked in awamori rice liquor . Varieties include : Ski soba ( ) - topped with extra ribs , known as ski in Okinawan . Tebichi soba ( ) - topped with stewed Pig 's trotters . - It is also mixed into flour base of some grilled foods like okonomiyaki and takoyaki. - The Stone Age was a broad prehistoric period during which stone was widely used to make implements with an edge, a point, or a percussion surface. The period lasted roughly 3.4 million years, and ended between 8700 BCE and 2000 BCE with the advent of metalworking. - In Japan, soba noodles are served in a variety of settings: they are a popular inexpensive fast food at railway stations throughout Japan, but are also served by expensive specialty restaurants. Markets sell dried noodles and "men-tsuyu", or instant noodle broth, to make home preparation easy. There are a wide variety of dishes, both hot for winter and cold for summer, using these noodles. - Noodles are a staple food in many cultures made from unleavened dough which is stretched, extruded, or rolled flat and cut into one of a variety of shapes. A single noodle can be made, eaten, or extracted from a serving of noodles, but it is far more common to serve and eat many at once, and thus more common to see the plural form of the word. - Hateruma (; "Hateruma-jima"; Yaeyama: "Hatirooma" Okinawan: "Hatiruma") is an island in the Yaeyama District of Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. Part of the town Taketomi, it is the southern-most "inhabited" island in Japan at 24225 north latitude, 1234716 east longitude. Hateruma is one of the Yaeyama Islands, and is located south of Iriomote-jima, the largest of the island group. - An archipelago, sometimes called an island group or island chain, is a chain, cluster or collection of islands. The word "archipelago" is derived from the Greek "- arkhi-" ("chief") and " pelagos" ("sea") through the Italian "arcipelago". In Italian, possibly following a tradition of antiquity, the Archipelago (from medieval Greek "*" and Latin "archipelagus") was the proper name for the Aegean Sea and, later, usage shifted to refer to the Aegean Islands (since the sea is remarkable for its large number of islands). It is now used to refer to any island group or, sometimes, to a sea containing a small number of scattered islands. - The are a group of islands in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, east of the Yaeyama Islands. They are situated between the Ryukyu Islands and Taiwan. - The , known in Japanese as the and also known as the , are a chain of Japanese islands that stretch southwest from Kyushu to Taiwan: the sumi, Tokara, Amami, Okinawa, and Sakishima Islands (further divided into the Miyako and Yaeyama Islands), with Yonaguni the southernmost. The larger are mostly high islands and the smaller ones are mostly coral islands. The largest of the islands is Okinawa. - The (or , "Sakishima-gunt") (Okinawan: "Sachishima") are an archipelago located at the southernmost end of the Japanese Archipelago. They are part of the Ryukyu Islands and include the Miyako Islands and the Yaeyama Islands. The islands are administered as part of Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. - The are an island group in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, and are the principal island group of the prefecture. The Okinawa Islands are part of the larger Ryukyu Islands group, and are located between the Amami Islands of Kagoshima Prefecture to the northeast and the Sakishima Islands of Okinawa Prefecture to the southwest. - Japanese cuisine has developed through centuries of social and economic changes. It encompasses the regional and traditional foods of Japan. - Kelps are large seaweeds (algae) belonging to the brown algae (Phaeophyceae) in the order Laminariales. There are about 30 different genera. - History. In the 15th century, it was incorporated into the Ryky Kingdom. By 1879, the island was formally annexed into Japan. - The Paleolithic or Palaeolithic; pronunciation: ) Age, Era or Period is a prehistoric period of human history distinguished by the development of the most primitive stone tools discovered (Grahame Clark's Modes I and II), and covers roughly 95% of human technological prehistory. It extends from the earliest known use of stone tools, probably by Homo habilis initially, 2.6 million years ago, to the end of the Pleistocene around 10,000 BP. - Typically, miso is salty, but its flavor and aroma depend on various factors in the ingredients and fermentation process. Different varieties of miso have been described as salty, sweet, earthy, fruity, and savory. The traditional Chinese analogue of miso is known as doujiang. - As of December 2012, the city has an estimated population of 321,467 and a population density of 8,244.46 persons per km. The total area is 38.99km. - History. The oldest evidence of human existence on the Ryukyu islands is from the Stone Age and was discovered in Naha and Yaese. Some human bone fragments from the Paleolithic era were unearthed, but there is no clear evidence of Paleolithic remains. Japanese Jmon influences are dominant on the Okinawa Islands, although clay vessels on the Sakishima Islands have a commonality with those in Taiwan. - The Yaeyama Islands ( "Yaeyama-shot", also "Yaeyama-rett", Yaeyama: "Yaima" Okinawan: "Eema") are an archipelago in the southwest of Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, and cover . The islands are located southwest of the Miyako Islands, part of the Ryukyu Islands archipelago. The Yaeyama Islands are the remotest part of Japan from the main islands and contains Japan's most southern (Hateruma) and most western (Yonaguni) inhabited islands. The city of Ishigaki serves as the political, cultural, and economic head of the Yaeyama Islands. - Japan ("Nippon" or "Nihon" ; formally "" or "Nihon-koku", means "State of Japan") is a sovereign island nation in Eastern Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, It is lying off the eastern coast of the Asia Mainland (east of China, Korea, Russia) and stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and near Taiwan in the southwest. - Kombu (from ) is edible kelp from the family Laminariaceae and is widely eaten in East Asia. It may also be referred to as, dasima or haidai. Some edible kelps in the family "Laminariaceae" are not always called kombu, such as arame, ("Ecklonia kurome") or "Macrocystis pyrifera". Most "kombu" is from the species "Saccharina japonica" ("Laminaria japonica"), extensively cultivated on ropes in the seas of Japan and Korea. With the development of cultivation technology, over 90% of Japanese "kombu" is cultivated, mostly in Hokkaid, but also as far south as the Seto Inland Sea. Given the information, choose the subject and object entities that have the relation of 'instance of'.
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