But Okinawa is so much more : a chain of hundreds of islands stretching some 600 miles southwest of mainland Japan into the East China Sea -LRB- also called the Ryuku Islands -RRB- , home to a distinctive subtropical culture and nature that few foreigners -- and not many Japanese for that matter -- have ever seen .
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