Japanese Islands vs Hondo

Japanese Islands and Hondo both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Japanese Islands	Yes	No	No	No
Hondo	Yes	No	No	No

Japanese Islands (noun)	Hondo (noun)
a string of more than 3,000 islands to the east of Asia extending 1,300 miles between the Sea of Japan and the western Pacific Ocean	the central and largest of the four main islands of Japan; between the Sea of Japan and the Pacific Ocean; regarded as the Japanese mainland