政府が自衛隊に沖縄への災害派遣を要請した。

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English Translation

The government asked the SDF for a disaster relief deployment to Okinawa.

Furigana

政府(せいふ)が自衛隊(じえいたい)に沖縄(おきなわ)への災害(さいがい)派遣(はけん)を要請(ようせい)した。

Romanji

Seifu ga Jieitai ni Okinawa e no saigai haken o yōseishita.

Words

政府 (せいふ)

government; administration

が (が)

indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; still; and

自衛隊 (じえいたい)

self-defence force; self-defense force; Japan Self-Defence Force; JSDF

に (に)

at (place, time); in; on; during; to (direction, state); toward; into; for (purpose); because of (reason); for; with; by; from; as (i.e. in the role of); per; in; for; a (e.g. "once a month"); and; in addition to; if; although

沖縄 (おきなわ)

Okinawa (prefecture); region comprising most of Japan's southwestern archipelago (esp. Okinawa Island); Okinawa (city)

へ (へ)

indicates direction or goal (e.g. "to")

の (の)

indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; (at sentence-end, falling tone) indicates a confident conclusion; (at sentence-end) indicates emotional emphasis; (at sentence-end, rising tone) indicates question

災害 (さいがい)

calamity; disaster; misfortune

派遣 (はけん)

dispatch; despatch; deployment; temporary employee (esp. from an agency); temporary worker; agency temp

を (を)

indicates direct object of action; indicates subject of causative expression; indicates an area traversed; indicates time (period) over which action takes place; indicates point of departure or separation of action; indicates object of desire, like, hate, etc.

要請 (ようせい)

appeal; call for something; request; claim; demand; axiom