Ryukyu Disposition

<h2 id="background">Background</h2>

Early in the <a href="/facts/Edo_period/BWxv9h57">Edo period</a>, with the <a href="/facts/Invasion_of_Ryukyu/u18N5vrh">invasion of 1609</a>, the <a href="/facts/Ryukyu_Kingdom/fKFl8pj2">Ryukyu Kingdom</a> entered into a vassal-suzerain relationship with the Japanese <a href="/facts/Satsuma_Domain/RaMnXrcs">Satsuma Domain</a>, also sending <a href="/facts/Ryukyuan_missions_to_Edo/DebP91aw">a series of missions</a> over the following two hundred and fifty years to <a href="/facts/Edo/2m0TXqb8">Edo</a>, the de facto capital of <a href="/facts/Tokugawa_shogunate/S4q54Sq6">Tokugawa Japan</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:14" href="#fn:14">14</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:15" href="#fn:15">15</a> At the same time, the Kingdom continued its tributary relationship with <a href="/facts/Qing_dynasty/5j6r4p5m">Imperial China</a>, both <a href="/facts/Imperial_Chinese_missions_to_the_Ryukyu_Kingdom/wP8DcT0J">receiving</a> and <a href="/facts/Ryukyuan_missions_to_Imperial_China/3tMWfsSY">sending</a> missions; this dual status is sometimes reflected through a <a href="/facts/Yojijukugo/sYBSsRBG">four character idiom</a> that means "belonging to the family both of <a href="/facts/Names_of_Japan/acxwmYof">Nippon</a> and <a href="/facts/Shina_(word)/5xyAVMlS">Shina</a>" (日支両属).<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:16" href="#fn:16">16</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:17" href="#fn:17">17</a> Thus the political status of <a href="/facts/Ryukyu_Islands/94rjkv8f">the Ryūkyūs</a> vis-à-vis the rest of Japan was exceptional in at least three ways: part of the <a href="/facts/Han_system/8bs4GQur">han system</a>, but not directly; ruled over by <a href="/facts/Second_Sh%C5%8D_family/yGGTuJFN">kings</a>; and the locus of semi-autonomous diplomatic ties with foreign powers, despite <a href="/facts/Sakoku/vRuvcoKt">sakoku</a> or the "closed country" policy.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:18" href="#fn:18">18</a>
The years following the <a href="/facts/Meiji_Restoration/DLkCDHk4">Meiji Restoration</a> of 1868 saw not only the <a href="/facts/Abolition_of_the_han_system/HrSeSwlo">abolition of the han system</a> (Ryūkyū subject for the time being to the jurisdiction of <a href="/facts/Kagoshima_Prefecture/MWe0sGLX">Kagoshima Prefecture</a>) but also efforts to "consolidate" the borders of the new <a href="/facts/Empire_of_Japan/gMpNKg2W">nation state</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:19" href="#fn:19">19</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:20" href="#fn:20">20</a> With the <a href="/facts/Mudan_incident/C2ey4jqX">Mudan incident</a>, the massacre of dozens of shipwrecked <a href="/facts/Ryukyuan_people/oCd8tWza">Ryūkyūans</a> (from the <a href="/facts/Miyako_Islands/4ro40Tz5">Miyako Islands</a>) in <a href="/facts/Taiwan_under_Qing_rule/fBLBCTjQ">Qing-ruled Taiwan</a> in 1871, the "Ryūkyū problem [zh]" was brought to the fore.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:21" href="#fn:21">21</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:22" href="#fn:22">22</a> In May the following year, negotiations with China over the incident still ongoing, <a href="/facts/Ministry_of_the_Treasury/pRUKVMv6">Vice Treasury Minister</a> <a href="/facts/Inoue_Kaoru/Mz9gIA1W">Inoue Kaoru</a> proposed annexation of the Ryūkyūs, arguing that they had long been subordinate to Satsuma, and that their "return to Japanese jurisdiction" would allow for a "single system for the homeland".<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:23" href="#fn:23">23</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:24" href="#fn:24">24</a>

<h2 id="disposition">Disposition</h2>
In the New Year of 1872, <a href="/facts/Narahara_Shigeru/fevITN9N">Narahara Shigeru</a> and Ijichi Sadaka [ja] crossed to Ryūkyū where, in discussion with court officials, they agreed to waive the Kingdom's former debts to the <a href="/facts/Shimazu_clan/dXQ4v9lU">Shimazu clan</a> of Satsuma.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:25" href="#fn:25">25</a> Then in July, the Ryūkyū government was informed it should send its congratulations on the success of the <a href="/facts/Meiji_Restoration/DLkCDHk4">Meiji Restoration</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:26" href="#fn:26">26</a> <a href="/facts/Prince_Ie/N0KdXdC6">Prince Ie</a> and <a href="/facts/Giwan_Ch%C5%8Dho/Ysfawg7r">Ginowan Uēkata</a> were duly dispatched to Tōkyō, arriving early in September.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:27" href="#fn:27">27</a> Meeting with the <a href="/facts/Meiji_Emperor/K5YkctrT">Meiji Emperor</a> on the 14th, they presented their letter (originally signed by "King of Ryūkyū, <a href="/facts/Sh%C5%8D_Tai/GsG03djh">Shō Tai</a>, Kingdom of Ryūkyū", but amended in consultation with the <a href="/facts/Ministry_of_Foreign_Affairs_(Japan)/dfVxKw7K">Ministry of Foreign Affairs</a> to "Shō Tai of Ryūkyū") and listened to a speech by the Emperor in which he referred to the long history of subordinate status to Satsuma.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:28" href="#fn:28">28</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:29" href="#fn:29">29</a> The Emperor also had <a href="/facts/Ministry_of_Foreign_Affairs_(Japan)/dfVxKw7K">Minister of Foreign Affairs</a> <a href="/facts/Soejima_Taneomi/ySEdIzgF">Soejima Taneomi</a> read out an Imperial Proclamation in which <a href="/facts/Sh%C5%8D_Tai/GsG03djh">Shō Tai</a> was elevated to "King of the Ryūkyū Domain" (琉球藩王, Ryūkyū Han Ō) (despite the earlier <a href="/facts/Abolition_of_the_han_system/HrSeSwlo">abolition of the han system</a>).<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:30" href="#fn:30">30</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:31" href="#fn:31">31</a> According to <a href="/facts/Gregory_Smits/609zSumL">Gregory Smits</a>, "Strictly speaking, the establishment of the Domain of Ryukyu marked the start of the Ryūkyū shobun."<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:32" href="#fn:32">32</a> This was followed a fortnight later by a decree of the <a href="/facts/Daj%C5%8D-kan/afRWTcrj">Dajō-kan</a> whereby the treaties agreed in the 1850s between the Ryūkyūs and USA, France, and the Netherlands were inherited by Tōkyō.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:33" href="#fn:33">33</a>

In May 1874, Japan launched a <a href="/facts/Japanese_invasion_of_Taiwan_(1874)/ekHnobXd">punitive expedition against Taiwan</a>; Britain acting as mediator, in the peace settlement of 31 October that year, China not only agreed to pay an indemnity but also referred to the Ryūkyūans as "subjects of Japan" (日本国属民), a fact described the following year by <a href="/facts/Gustave_Boissonade/VAVFkwCQ">Gustave Boissonade</a> as "the happiest outcome of the treaty".<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:34" href="#fn:34">34</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:35" href="#fn:35">35</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:36" href="#fn:36">36</a> Meanwhile, on 12 July 1874, responsibility for the Ryūkyūs was transferred from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the <a href="/facts/Home_Ministry/fQwWy8fE">Home Ministry</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:37" href="#fn:37">37</a> In November 1874, the Ryūkyū government sent a <a href="/facts/Ryukyuan_missions_to_Imperial_China/3tMWfsSY">tributary mission to China</a>, drawing criticism from Home Minister <a href="/facts/%C5%8Ckubo_Toshimichi/KHUCqGJv">Ōkubo Toshimichi</a>, who set out in a report of enquiry a number of steps to be taken to address the Ryūkyū Domain's adherence to "ancient outdated laws" and failure to see "reason", while senior Domain officials were summonsed to Tōkyō.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:38" href="#fn:38">38</a>
In March 1875, the Japanese government decided upon the "disposition" of the domain.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:39" href="#fn:39">39</a> Home Ministry official <a href="/facts/Matsuda_Michiyuki/cFyCFoj1">Matsuda Michiyuki</a> was appointed Disposition Officer (処分官) and sent with over seventy envoys to Ryūkyū.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:40" href="#fn:40">40</a> Entering <a href="/facts/Shuri_Castle/fXT3Yc9M">Shuri Castle</a> on 14 July, they met with <a href="/facts/Prince_Nakijin/hDDBM3aN">Prince Nakijin</a>, Shō Tai being indisposed, and presented a list of nine demands: (1) an end to the sending of tributary and congratulatory missions to China, and (2) to the reception of Chinese envoys in return; (3) adoption of <a href="/facts/Japanese_era_name/rzgRT7NF">Japanese era names</a>; (4) the dispatch of three officials to Tōkyō in relation to implementation of a new code of criminal law; (5) reform of Domain administration and hierarchies; (6) the dispatch of ten or so students to Tōkyō for study; (7) abolition of the <a href="/facts/Ry%C5%ABky%C5%AB-kan/6CXGHmQ1">Ryūkyū-kan</a> in <a href="/facts/Fujian/Knjv0XCG">Fujian</a>; (8) a visit to Tōkyō by the King; and (9) the establishment of a Japanese garrison.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:41" href="#fn:41">41</a> The local government agreed to the sending of officials and students and to a minimal garrison, while rejecting sole use of the Japanese <a href="/facts/Neng%C5%8D/rzgRT7NF">nengō</a>, domestic reform (citing societal differences), and restriction of its diplomatic rights, excusing Shō Tai from travel due to his illness.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:42" href="#fn:42">42</a> In his report to <a href="/facts/Daij%C5%8D-daijin/qhBfe4JK">Premier</a> <a href="/facts/Sanj%C5%8D_Sanetomi/oPg571S9">Sanjō Sanetomi</a> of 25 September, a frustrated Matsuda made mention of the possible future abolition of Ryūkyū Domain and establishment in its place of <a href="/facts/Okinawa_Prefecture/2PNlxv5K">Okinawa Prefecture</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:43" href="#fn:43">43</a>
In September 1876, a barracks was completed near the port of <a href="/facts/Naha/rl4QzNyx">Naha</a> and twenty-five soldiers from the Kumamoto garrison installed.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:44" href="#fn:44">44</a> Three months later, the Ryūkyū Domain sent a secret mission to China, where they drew attention to Japanese interference in their <a href="/facts/Ryukyuan_missions_to_Imperial_China/3tMWfsSY">tributary missions</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:45" href="#fn:45">45</a> In 1878, Chinese diplomat He Ruzhang would meet twice with Minister of Foreign Affairs <a href="/facts/Terashima_Munenori/AWHQsaGN">Terashima Munenori</a> to complain of the end to diplomatic relations with Ryūkyū.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:46" href="#fn:46">46</a> A few months earlier, Ryūkyū representatives in Tōkyō sent secret letters to their US, French, and Dutch counterparts to complain of Japan's treatment and attempt to secure assistance.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:47" href="#fn:47">47</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:48" href="#fn:48">48</a> Some fourteen petitions were also submitted to the Japanese government, requesting a return to the old system of dual allegiance, arguing that "Japan is our father, China our mother", but meeting with the response that "to serve two emperors is like a wife serving two husbands".<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:49" href="#fn:49">49</a> At the close of the year, Home Minister <a href="/facts/It%C5%8D_Hirobumi/mBVYQoWb">Itō Hirobumi</a> having taken the decision to replace the domain with a prefecture, Ryūkyū officials were expelled from Tōkyō and their official residence in the city closed.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:50" href="#fn:50">50</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:51" href="#fn:51">51</a>

In January 1879, <a href="/facts/Matsuda_Michiyuki/cFyCFoj1">Matsuda</a> sailed south a second time, meeting with Domain officials in <a href="/facts/Shuri,_Okinawa/LL4BHPpd">Shuri</a> and reading out a message from <a href="/facts/Sanj%C5%8D_Sanetomi/oPg571S9">Sanjō Sanetomi</a> demanding severance of diplomatic ties with China.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:52" href="#fn:52">52</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:53" href="#fn:53">53</a> By letter and through his officials, Shō Tai responded that failure to pay tribute and offer congratulations would be punished by China, and sought understanding for the difficulty of his position".<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:54" href="#fn:54">54</a> On 11 March 1879, Matsuda received his instructions from Sanjō Sanetomi to travel to Ryūkyū once more.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:55" href="#fn:55">55</a> This time he took with him, in addition to thirty-two officials from the Home Ministry and nine other officers, one hundred and sixty policemen, and three<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:56" href="#fn:56">56</a> or four<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:57" href="#fn:57">57</a> hundred soldiers, from the Kumamoto garrison.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:58" href="#fn:58">58</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:59" href="#fn:59">59</a> Arriving in Naha on the 25th, two days later Disposition Officer Matsuda gave notice to <a href="/facts/Prince_Nakijin/hDDBM3aN">Prince Nakijin</a> that, on the last day of the month, <a href="/facts/Ry%C5%ABky%C5%AB_Domain/y0jTnWS2">Ryūkyū han</a> would be abolished and <a href="/facts/Okinawa_Prefecture/2PNlxv5K">Okinawa ken</a> instituted, instructing that <a href="/facts/Shuri_Castle/fXT3Yc9M">Shuri Castle</a> be vacated by that date.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:60" href="#fn:60">60</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:61" href="#fn:61">61</a> On the 29th the king departed and two days later Matsuda marched unopposed with his men into <a href="/facts/Shuri_Castle/fXT3Yc9M">Shuri Castle</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:62" href="#fn:62">62</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:63" href="#fn:63">63</a> On 5 April, on the front page of the <a href="/facts/Yomiuri_Shimbun/JjegY6DU">Yomiuri Shimbun</a>, the <a href="/facts/Daj%C5%8D-kan/afRWTcrj">Dajō-kan</a> announced to the public that Ryūkyū Domain had been abolished and Okinawa Prefecture created in its place.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:64" href="#fn:64">64</a> A few days later, the Emperor sent Tominokōji Hironao [ja] to enquire into Shō Tai's health and invite him to Tōkyō, placing the <a href="/facts/Meiji_Maru/xAs6FjVe">Meiji Maru</a> at the former king's disposal; Shō Tai's illness ongoing, Tominokōji returned instead with <a href="/facts/Sh%C5%8D_Ten/KjVatq3o">Shō Ten</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:65" href="#fn:65">65</a> After some further weeks of delay, possibly with a view to giving China time to intervene (leading Ryūkyūans crossed over to the continent and a letter from <a href="/facts/Prince_Gong/JWLRmpDK">Prince Gong</a> was sent to the Japanese ministry in Beijing drawing attention to China's respect for Ryūkyū's sovereignty and calling on Japan to abandon its plans, the response being that this was an internal affair and other countries had no right to interfere), on 27 May <a href="/facts/Sh%C5%8D_Tai/GsG03djh">Shō Tai</a> sailed for Tōkyō, where, after an audience with the Emperor, he took up his position as <a href="/facts/Kazoku/nUGnjVFb">Marquis</a> in the <a href="/facts/Kazoku/nUGnjVFb">kazoku</a> peerage system.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:66" href="#fn:66">66</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:67" href="#fn:67">67</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:68" href="#fn:68">68</a>
As <a href="/facts/Gregory_Smits/609zSumL">Smits</a> notes, however, the "issue of Ryukyuan sovereignty ... was not yet settled in the international arena".<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:69" href="#fn:69">69</a> With the Qing government vehemently protesting the annexation, spurred on by <a href="/facts/War_hawk/wzLHgM3P">hawks</a> advocating armed resolution, the Ryūkyū question became an important contributing factor in the build up to the <a href="/facts/First_Sino-Japanese_War/rYlcDT7Y">First Sino-Japanese War</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:70" href="#fn:70">70</a> At the urging of <a href="/facts/Li_Hongzhang/vYLYLtjp">Li Hongzhang</a>, and after mediation by <a href="/facts/World_tour_of_Ulysses_S._Grant/B65cXV7R">visiting</a> former US President <a href="/facts/Ulysses_S._Grant/htCzhMtb">Ulysses S. Grant</a>, in 1880 Japan entered into negotiations with China.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:71" href="#fn:71">71</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:72" href="#fn:72">72</a> Both sides proposed to divide the Ryūkyūs: Japan offered to hand over some of its home territory, in the form of the <a href="/facts/Yaeyama_Islands/jgxcnAoB">Yaeyama Islands</a> and <a href="/facts/Miyako_Islands/4ro40Tz5">Miyako Islands</a>, in return for revision of the <a href="/facts/Sino-Japanese_Friendship_and_Trade_Treaty/jDb8YHkx">Sino-Japanese Friendship and Trade Treaty</a>, whereby Japan might trade in the interior of China and be accorded <a href="/facts/Most_favoured_nation/2zuqVbYL">most favoured nation</a> status; the Chinese proposed <a href="/facts/Amami_%C5%8Cshima/Dp6UtCXX">Amami Ōshima</a> and the <a href="/facts/Amami_Islands/97XYxXx5">surrounding islands</a> go to Japan, <a href="/facts/Okinawa_Islands/Dv93k1YS">Okinawa</a> to the Ryūkyū King, and the Yaeyama and Miyako Islands to China, which would then restore them to the Ryūkyū King.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:73" href="#fn:73">73</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:74" href="#fn:74">74</a> Negotiations reached an advanced stage, but at the end of the year China refused to ratify the agreement and the status quo continued.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:75" href="#fn:75">75</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:76" href="#fn:76">76</a> Meanwhile, in its "Memorandum of Japan's sovereign rights to the Ryūkyū Islands, in response to the Chinese government's protest", the Meiji government advanced a number of factors in support of the legitimacy of its claims, citing geographic, historic, racial, linguistic, religious, and cultural propinquity, and stated that, with the abolition of the han, Ryūkyū was the final domestic territory to be reformed and brought under centralized government control.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:77" href="#fn:77">77</a> Within Okinawa itself, Japan's victory in the <a href="/facts/First_Sino-Japanese_War/rYlcDT7Y">First Sino-Japanese War</a> brought any lingering discontent to an end.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:78" href="#fn:78">78</a>

<h2 id="legacy-of-the-term">Legacy of the term</h2>
After the war, the term Ryūkyū shobun saw reuse in relation to the status of the Ryūkyūs per Article 3 of the <a href="/facts/Treaty_of_San_Francisco/crjWktkl">Treaty of San Francisco</a>, to representatives of Okinawa being left out of talks relating to <a href="/facts/1971_Okinawa_Reversion_Agreement/yMWLjutG">Reversion</a>, and to the failure of the Japanese government to live up to the promises made during these negotiations.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:79" href="#fn:79">79</a> <a href="/facts/Prime_Minister_of_Japan/RMknUoMt">Prime Minister</a> <a href="/facts/Sat%C5%8D_Eisaku/4Ej7be50">Satō Eisaku</a> was even accused in the <a href="/facts/National_Diet/pxHWQLqb">Diet</a> of contributing to a new Ryūkyū shobun in the context of the lack of Okinawan representation in the Reversion negotiations.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:80" href="#fn:80">80</a> On the occasion of the second anniversary of Reversion, the <a href="/facts/Okinawa_Times/R6LRGjHv">Okinawa Times</a> referred to this as the Okinawa shobun.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:81" href="#fn:81">81</a> More recently, editorials in the <a href="/facts/Ry%C5%ABky%C5%AB_Shimp%C5%8D/KKXkz2R4">Ryūkyū Shimpō</a> and elsewhere have used the term Ryūkyū shobun in relation to the <a href="/facts/Ryukyu_independence_movement/PXjgu7pk">question of US military bases</a> on Okinawan soil.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:82" href="#fn:82">82</a>

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<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Hokkaid%C5%8D_Development_Commission/fqGRpzGS">Hokkaidō Development Commission</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Okinawa_Shrine/zroI9Vg7">Okinawa Shrine</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Ryukyu_independence_movement/PXjgu7pk">Ryukyu independence movement</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Ryukyuan_assimilation_policies/L4Vmt0NE">Ryukyuan assimilation policies</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Sakishima_Beacons/vA5D4lT3">Sakishima Beacons</a></li></ul>

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<li id="fn:49">Keene, Donald (2002). Emperor of Japan: Meiji and his World, 1852–1912. Columbia University Press. pp. 220 f., 302–307. ISBN 978-0231123402. <a href="978-0231123402" target="_blank">978-0231123402</a> <a href="#fnref:49" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:50">Uemura, Hideaki (3 June 2010). Stevens, Carolyn S.; Nakamura, Ellen; Kawaguchi, Satomi; Suter, Rebecca; Wilkins, Tom; Chenhall, Richard; Mauch, Peter; Trefalt, Beatrice; Tipton, Elise (eds.). "The colonial annexation of Okinawa and the logic of international law: the formation of an 'indigenous people' in East Asia". Japanese Studies. 23 (2). Sydney, New South Wales, Australia: Japanese Studies Association of Australia (JSAA)/Carfax Publishing (Taylor & Francis): 107–124. doi:10.1080/1037139032000154867. ISSN 1037-1397. S2CID 144934970. Retrieved 18 June 2021. <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1037139032000154867" target="_blank">https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1037139032000154867</a> <a href="#fnref:50" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:51">Keene, Donald (2002). Emperor of Japan: Meiji and his World, 1852–1912. Columbia University Press. pp. 220 f., 302–307. ISBN 978-0231123402. <a href="978-0231123402" target="_blank">978-0231123402</a> <a href="#fnref:51" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:52">琉球処分 [Ryūkyū Shobun]. Encyclopedia Nipponica (in Japanese). Shōgakukan. 2001. <a href="琉球処分" target="_blank">琉球処分</a> <a href="#fnref:52" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:53">Keene, Donald (2002). Emperor of Japan: Meiji and his World, 1852–1912. Columbia University Press. pp. 220 f., 302–307. ISBN 978-0231123402. <a href="978-0231123402" target="_blank">978-0231123402</a> <a href="#fnref:53" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:54">Keene, Donald (2002). Emperor of Japan: Meiji and his World, 1852–1912. Columbia University Press. pp. 220 f., 302–307. ISBN 978-0231123402. <a href="978-0231123402" target="_blank">978-0231123402</a> <a href="#fnref:54" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:55">Uemura, Hideaki (3 June 2010). Stevens, Carolyn S.; Nakamura, Ellen; Kawaguchi, Satomi; Suter, Rebecca; Wilkins, Tom; Chenhall, Richard; Mauch, Peter; Trefalt, Beatrice; Tipton, Elise (eds.). "The colonial annexation of Okinawa and the logic of international law: the formation of an 'indigenous people' in East Asia". Japanese Studies. 23 (2). Sydney, New South Wales, Australia: Japanese Studies Association of Australia (JSAA)/Carfax Publishing (Taylor & Francis): 107–124. doi:10.1080/1037139032000154867. ISSN 1037-1397. S2CID 144934970. Retrieved 18 June 2021. <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1037139032000154867" target="_blank">https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1037139032000154867</a> <a href="#fnref:55" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:56">琉球処分 [Ryūkyū Shobun]. Encyclopedia Nipponica (in Japanese). Shōgakukan. 2001. <a href="琉球処分" target="_blank">琉球処分</a> <a href="#fnref:56" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:57">Uemura, Hideaki (3 June 2010). Stevens, Carolyn S.; Nakamura, Ellen; Kawaguchi, Satomi; Suter, Rebecca; Wilkins, Tom; Chenhall, Richard; Mauch, Peter; Trefalt, Beatrice; Tipton, Elise (eds.). "The colonial annexation of Okinawa and the logic of international law: the formation of an 'indigenous people' in East Asia". Japanese Studies. 23 (2). Sydney, New South Wales, Australia: Japanese Studies Association of Australia (JSAA)/Carfax Publishing (Taylor & Francis): 107–124. doi:10.1080/1037139032000154867. ISSN 1037-1397. S2CID 144934970. Retrieved 18 June 2021. <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1037139032000154867" target="_blank">https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1037139032000154867</a> <a href="#fnref:57" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:58">Uemura, Hideaki (3 June 2010). Stevens, Carolyn S.; Nakamura, Ellen; Kawaguchi, Satomi; Suter, Rebecca; Wilkins, Tom; Chenhall, Richard; Mauch, Peter; Trefalt, Beatrice; Tipton, Elise (eds.). "The colonial annexation of Okinawa and the logic of international law: the formation of an 'indigenous people' in East Asia". Japanese Studies. 23 (2). Sydney, New South Wales, Australia: Japanese Studies Association of Australia (JSAA)/Carfax Publishing (Taylor & Francis): 107–124. doi:10.1080/1037139032000154867. ISSN 1037-1397. S2CID 144934970. Retrieved 18 June 2021. <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1037139032000154867" target="_blank">https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1037139032000154867</a> <a href="#fnref:58" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:59">琉球処分 [Ryūkyū Shobun]. Encyclopedia Nipponica (in Japanese). Shōgakukan. 2001. <a href="琉球処分" target="_blank">琉球処分</a> <a href="#fnref:59" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:60">Uemura, Hideaki (3 June 2010). Stevens, Carolyn S.; Nakamura, Ellen; Kawaguchi, Satomi; Suter, Rebecca; Wilkins, Tom; Chenhall, Richard; Mauch, Peter; Trefalt, Beatrice; Tipton, Elise (eds.). "The colonial annexation of Okinawa and the logic of international law: the formation of an 'indigenous people' in East Asia". Japanese Studies. 23 (2). Sydney, New South Wales, Australia: Japanese Studies Association of Australia (JSAA)/Carfax Publishing (Taylor & Francis): 107–124. doi:10.1080/1037139032000154867. ISSN 1037-1397. S2CID 144934970. Retrieved 18 June 2021. <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1037139032000154867" target="_blank">https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1037139032000154867</a> <a href="#fnref:60" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:61">琉球処分 [Ryūkyū Shobun]. Encyclopedia Nipponica (in Japanese). Shōgakukan. 2001. <a href="琉球処分" target="_blank">琉球処分</a> <a href="#fnref:61" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:62">Tze May Loo (2014). Heritage Politics: Shuri Castle and Okinawa's Incorporation into Modern Japan, 1879–2000. Lexington Books. pp. 2–39, 50. ISBN 978-0739182482. <a href="978-0739182482" target="_blank">978-0739182482</a> <a href="#fnref:62" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:63">Smits, Gregory (1999). Visions of Ryukyu. University of Hawai'i Press. pp. 143–146. ISBN 0-8248-2037-1. <a href="0-8248-2037-1" target="_blank">0-8248-2037-1</a> <a href="#fnref:63" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:64">Tze May Loo (2014). Heritage Politics: Shuri Castle and Okinawa's Incorporation into Modern Japan, 1879–2000. Lexington Books. pp. 2–39, 50. ISBN 978-0739182482. <a href="978-0739182482" target="_blank">978-0739182482</a> <a href="#fnref:64" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:65">Keene, Donald (2002). Emperor of Japan: Meiji and his World, 1852–1912. Columbia University Press. pp. 220 f., 302–307. ISBN 978-0231123402. <a href="978-0231123402" target="_blank">978-0231123402</a> <a href="#fnref:65" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:66">Tze May Loo (2014). Heritage Politics: Shuri Castle and Okinawa's Incorporation into Modern Japan, 1879–2000. Lexington Books. pp. 2–39, 50. ISBN 978-0739182482. <a href="978-0739182482" target="_blank">978-0739182482</a> <a href="#fnref:66" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:67">Smits, Gregory (1999). Visions of Ryukyu. University of Hawai'i Press. pp. 143–146. ISBN 0-8248-2037-1. <a href="0-8248-2037-1" target="_blank">0-8248-2037-1</a> <a href="#fnref:67" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:68">Keene, Donald (2002). Emperor of Japan: Meiji and his World, 1852–1912. Columbia University Press. pp. 220 f., 302–307. ISBN 978-0231123402. <a href="978-0231123402" target="_blank">978-0231123402</a> <a href="#fnref:68" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:69">Smits, Gregory (1999). Visions of Ryukyu. University of Hawai'i Press. pp. 143–146. ISBN 0-8248-2037-1. <a href="0-8248-2037-1" target="_blank">0-8248-2037-1</a> <a href="#fnref:69" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:70">琉球処分 [Ryūkyū Shobun]. Encyclopedia Nipponica (in Japanese). Shōgakukan. 2001. <a href="琉球処分" target="_blank">琉球処分</a> <a href="#fnref:70" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:71">Smits, Gregory (1999). Visions of Ryukyu. University of Hawai'i Press. pp. 143–146. ISBN 0-8248-2037-1. <a href="0-8248-2037-1" target="_blank">0-8248-2037-1</a> <a href="#fnref:71" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:72">琉球処分 [Ryūkyū Shobun]. Encyclopedia Nipponica (in Japanese). Shōgakukan. 2001. <a href="琉球処分" target="_blank">琉球処分</a> <a href="#fnref:72" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:73">Smits, Gregory (1999). Visions of Ryukyu. University of Hawai'i Press. pp. 143–146. ISBN 0-8248-2037-1. <a href="0-8248-2037-1" target="_blank">0-8248-2037-1</a> <a href="#fnref:73" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:74">琉球処分 [Ryūkyū Shobun]. Encyclopedia Nipponica (in Japanese). Shōgakukan. 2001. <a href="琉球処分" target="_blank">琉球処分</a> <a href="#fnref:74" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:75">Smits, Gregory (1999). Visions of Ryukyu. University of Hawai'i Press. pp. 143–146. ISBN 0-8248-2037-1. <a href="0-8248-2037-1" target="_blank">0-8248-2037-1</a> <a href="#fnref:75" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:76">琉球処分 [Ryūkyū Shobun]. Ryūkyū Shimpō (in Japanese). 1 March 2003. Retrieved 5 September 2020. <a href="琉球処分" target="_blank">琉球処分</a> <a href="#fnref:76" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:77">Tze May Loo (2014). Heritage Politics: Shuri Castle and Okinawa's Incorporation into Modern Japan, 1879–2000. Lexington Books. pp. 2–39, 50. ISBN 978-0739182482. <a href="978-0739182482" target="_blank">978-0739182482</a> <a href="#fnref:77" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:78">琉球処分 [Ryūkyū Shobun]. Encyclopedia Nipponica (in Japanese). Shōgakukan. 2001. <a href="琉球処分" target="_blank">琉球処分</a> <a href="#fnref:78" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:79">Tze May Loo (2014). Heritage Politics: Shuri Castle and Okinawa's Incorporation into Modern Japan, 1879–2000. Lexington Books. pp. 2–39, 50. ISBN 978-0739182482. <a href="978-0739182482" target="_blank">978-0739182482</a> <a href="#fnref:79" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:80">Tze May Loo (2014). Heritage Politics: Shuri Castle and Okinawa's Incorporation into Modern Japan, 1879–2000. Lexington Books. pp. 2–39, 50. ISBN 978-0739182482. <a href="978-0739182482" target="_blank">978-0739182482</a> <a href="#fnref:80" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:81">Tze May Loo (2014). Heritage Politics: Shuri Castle and Okinawa's Incorporation into Modern Japan, 1879–2000. Lexington Books. pp. 2–39, 50. ISBN 978-0739182482. <a href="978-0739182482" target="_blank">978-0739182482</a> <a href="#fnref:81" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:82">Tze May Loo (2014). Heritage Politics: Shuri Castle and Okinawa's Incorporation into Modern Japan, 1879–2000. Lexington Books. pp. 2–39, 50. ISBN 978-0739182482. <a href="978-0739182482" target="_blank">978-0739182482</a> <a href="#fnref:82" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
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