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	Ryukyu Islands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Ryukyu Kingdom was once an independent kingdom occupying the island chain, from Yonaguni Island in the southwest to Amami Oshima in the north.
		Some natives of the Ryukyus claim that the central government is discriminating against the islanders by allowing so many American soldiers to be stationed on bases in Okinawa with a minimal presence on the mainland.
		The Ryukyu Islands are recognized by ecologists as a distinct subtropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ryukyu (504 words)

	Ryukyu Kingdom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Ryukyu Kingdom(琉球王国) was an independent kingdom which ruled most of the Ryukyu Islands from the 14th century to the 19th century.
		The Kings of Ryukyu unified Okinawa Island and extended the kingdom to the Amami Islands in modern Kagoshima Prefecture, and the Yaeyama Islands near Taiwan.
		The Kingdom of Ryukyu was established with the capital at Shuri (now part of modern-day Naha).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ryukyu_Kingdom (885 words)

	Naha, Okinawa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		However, it has become one of the most important and populous sites in Ryukyu Islands as the capital of the Ryukyu Kingdom, which is located in Naha from the early 15th century until its abolishment in 1879 (from other view, 1872).
		In the period of the Ryukyu kingdom, there were five districts in the area of Naha currentdays.
		After the replacement of the Ryukyu Kingdom to Naha han in 1872 Naha became the capital city of Naha han.
	www.secaucus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Naha,_Okinawa (627 words)

	Ryukyu Kingdom -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The King of Ryukyu also sent diplomatic missions to (A member of a west African people living in the tropical forest region of southern Nigeria) Edo, capital of feudal (A constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building) Japan.
		The Kingdom of Ryukyu was established with the capital at Shuri.
		The last king of Ryukyu was transported to (The capital and largest city of Japan; the economic and cultural center of Japan) Tokyo.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ry/ryukyu_kingdom.htm (445 words)

	History of Okinawa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Evidence suggests the island was never part of formal Japanese territory until annexation in 1872, although the Kingdom of the Ryūkyūs had been subjugated by the Shimazu clan, lords of southern Kyūshū, as early as 1609, and the Okinawans also paid tribute to the Manchu rulers of the Qing Dynasty of China.
		Permission to invade the kingdom was granted by the rulers in Edo.
		The Kingdom was formally annexed to Japan in 1879, the monarchy in Shuri Castle abolished.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/history_of_okinawa (1961 words)

	Encyclopedia: Kingdom of Ryukyu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		As Ming China prohibited trade with Japanese, the Lord of Satsuma utilized the kingdom as a puppet state for profitable trade with China.
		The Kingdom of Ryukyu was established with the capital at Shuri Castle.
		The last king of Ryukyu was transported to Tokyo and executed.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Kingdom-of-Ryukyu (349 words)

	Encyclopedia: Ryukyu Kingdom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Location of Ryukyu Islands Flag of same The Ryukyu Islands (ç‰çƒåˆ—å³¶ RyÅ«kyÅ«-rettÅ), also known as the Nansei-shoto (å—è¥¿è«¸å³¶ Nansei-shotÅ, which translates literally as the Southwest Islands), are an island chain stretching southwestward from the island of Kyushu in Japan.
		Amami Ōshima is one of the Ryukyu Islands.
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	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Ryukyu-Kingdom (2069 words)

	The History Cooperative \| Conference Proceedings \| Seascapes, Littoral Cultures, and Trans-Oceanic Exchanges \| ...
		Korea in 1600 is a kingdom that recently survived two Japanese invasions and in a few decades will accept the Manchus as the successor to the Ming dynasty; by 1700 its government is largely focused on issues of domestic order and with limited foreign contacts.
		The Ryūkyū kingdom was formed in the early fifteenth century on a chain of more than fifty islands stretching from the southwest of Japan almost 400 miles or some 650 kilometers to the northeast of Taiwan.
		The Ryūkyū kingdom served as an intermediary, simultaneously observing a tributary status to the Qing dynasty and recognizing a subordinate relationship to the Tokugawa.
	www.historycooperative.org /proceedings/seascapes/wong.html (8713 words)

	Ryukyu Islands - between the islands of Kyushu and Taiwan
		Ryukyu Islands is the name of the island group between the islands of Kyushu and Taiwan.
		Ryukyu Islands in Japanese is Nansei Shoto or Ryūkyū Retto.
		Also, some natives of the Ryukyus claim that the central government is discriminating against them by allowing so many American soldiers to be stationed in Okinawa, a far higher percentage than are stationed anywhere else in Japan.
	www.japan-101.com /geography/ryukyu_islands.htm (321 words)

	history
		He was followed by King Sho En who ruled the second dynasty --- The Ryukyu Kingdom which lasted for 400 years --- before it was conquered by the Japanese Samurai.
		The bell's inscription said "Ryukyu has the most suitable location for trades in the south, I bring the greatest books from Korea, through ships mediating trade between China and Japan, and it is a bridge between the worlds.
		As the Ryukyu Kingdom prospered, a distinctive "Shuri-Style of Karate evolved.
	www.geocities.com /jpower747/history.html (739 words)

	Politics of Uchinaa
		In 1879 the Ryukyu Kingdom was abolished and Okinawan Prefecture was established.
		The Kingdom of the Ryukyu`s had a prosperous trade with countries in Southeast Asia, China, Korea and Japan.
		For the Kingdom of the Ryukyus to survive it must become an independent sovereignty again.
	home.att.net /~jf-barnes/political.html (918 words)

	CNN - Okinawa's culture not well-known - Nov. 3, 1995 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Okinawans have their own distinctive music (204K AIFF sound or 204K WAV sound), their own unique language, and their own steadfast traditions which began hundreds of years ago when Okinawa was the Ryukyu Kingdom, the Island Kingdom.
		From the late 1300s and for the next 400 years, Ryukyu was its own nation, ruled by royalty.
		Ryukyu village is a tourist spot in Okinawa.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/9511/okinawa (501 words)

	Japanese Militarism & Diaoyutai (Senkaku) Island - A Japanese Historian's View
		Concluding from the above-mentioned, Ryukyu territroy began from the Kume Island and the area east of it, whereas Chihwei Yu and the Huangwei Yu and Tiaoyu Yu (Diaoyutai) to the west were Chinese territory.
		Sailing from Ryukyu to the Tiaoyu Island (Diaoyutai) was particularly difficult because it was against the wind and the tide.
		The year when Ryukyu was turned into Okinawa Prefecture was also the year when the conflict between the Ching government of China and Japan concerning the title to these territories reached a climax.
	www.skycitygallery.com /japan/diaohist.html (3197 words)

	The Ultimate History of the Ryukyu Kingdom Dog Breeds Information Guide and Reference (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		At the time, Japan itself was closed to trade with China; however the Ryukyus were not, and this is thought to be the reason that the local rulers, the Sho dynasty, were left in control.
		The islands were under the sovereign, Sinicized Kingdom of Ryukyu, up until their annexation by Meiji Japan.
		Despite the lack of consensus amongst the Ryukyuans, the inhabitants of the Okinawa Prefecture of Japan, they are in fact conscious of their ethnic identity as Uchinanchus, as opposed to Yamatunchus, that is to say, the mainland Japanese.
	www.dogluvers.com /dog_breeds/History_of_the_Ryukyu_Kingdom (332 words)

	Resources on the Ryukyu from academic institutions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Extinction: Ryukyu Kingfisher UWSP GEOG358 [Heywood]: Ryukyu Kingfisher (Halcyon miyakoensis).
		M283 Okinawa World War II Photographs: Okinawa, the largest island of the Ryukyu chain, located in the East China Sea, was the threshold of an allied invasion of Japan during World War II.
		To the east of Taiwan, the Philippine Sea plate is subducting beneath the Ryukyu island arc...
	mongabay.org /conservation/Ryukyu.htm (1041 words)

	Okinawa Travel: Shuri Castle
		A city district of Naha today, Shuri is the name of the former capital of the Ryukyu Kingdom.
		Shuri Castle (Shurijo) served as the administrative center and residence of the Ryukyu kings for several centuries, until Okinawa became a Japanese prefecture in 1879.
		First among them is the Tamaudun, the mausoleum of the Ryukyu kings, consisting of three closed chambers: the left one for kings and queens, the right one for princes and princesses, and the central one for storing recently deceased bodies until undergoing a local ritual of bone cleaning a few years later.
	www.japan-guide.com /e/e7103.html (361 words)

	Ryukyu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Built in the late 14th century, the castle was the royal seat of the Ryukyu Kingdom for 500 years.
		In 1945, that island, belonging to the RyukyuÂ´s, South of Japan, was the stage for the bloodiest battle of World War II.
		To the south stretch the Ryukyu Islands and their connections to Southeast Asia; while to the north lies the remainder of Japan's large islands and their...
	www.conservation.mongabay.com /news/Ryukyu.htm (1150 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Because Okinawa had been the half-independent Ryukyu Kingdom until 1879, Okinawa has a culture and a language that are different from mainland Japan.
		Since Okinawa did not become part of Japan until relatively recently, and for several hundred years was the independent Ryukyu Kingdom, there are considerable differences between Okinawan culture and that of mainland Japan.
		Examples of traditional Okinawan culture include Eisa dancing (a traditional drumming dance), the sanshin (a three-stringed Okinawan instrument, somewhat similar to a banjo, whose body is often bound using the skin of Okinawa's poisonous Habu snake), and the ubiquitous Awamori (an Okinawan spirit made from Thai rice).
	www.askmytutor.co.uk /o/ok/okinawa_prefecture.html (1424 words)

	1996 AAS Abstracts: Japan Session 219 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Using archaeological evidence, Asato Susumu presents a new theory of the formation of the Ryukyu kingdom; historian Tomiyama Kazuyuki examines posthumous royal portraits to interpret changes in state structure and the royal cult; and art historian Amanda Mayer Stinchecum raises questions about ethnic identity and the transmission of cultural forms.
		Until the end of the 12th century the Ryukyu archipelago was divided into two spheres of primitive culture: the Okinawa shell-mound culture of Okinawa and Amami, and the Sakishima pre-historic culture of Miyako and Yaeyama.
		Dress is held to be one of the distinguishing characteristics of ethnic and national identity, and the culture of Ryukyu is embodied in the clothing worn by the people of the islands.
	www.aasianst.org /absts/1996abst/japan/j219.htm (711 words)

	Ryukyu Kingdom Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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	www.variedtastes.com /encyclopedia/Ryukyu_Kingdom (1063 words)

	Early History of The Ryukyu Kingdom and its Relationship with China and Japan
		In many ways, the history of the Ryukyu Kingdom previous to the Meiji Restoration provides a depiction of an island kingdom that maintained a high degree of national sovereignty that was eventually shattered by colonial domination by the Satsuma-han in the 17th century.
		From the 14th century on, the Ryukyu Kingdom developed a tributary relationship with China, which while symbolically signifying the Ryukyu Kingdom's status under China (as demonstrated in a pledge of loyalty made by the Ryukyuan King to the Chinese Emperor) basically maintained the Ryukyu Kingdom's independent status as a nation.
		The rest of the Ryukyu Kingdom, however, was able to maintain some appearances of sovereignty despite the nature of their domination by the Satsuma domain.
	www.uchinanchu.org /uchinanchu/history_early.htm (1195 words)

	Archives
		The themes are various, but "Tropical Okinawa" trumps the others, it seems, with "Ryukyu Kingdom" coming in second.
		Actually, the archives building itself is very much a themed environment, conspicuously designed in a neo-Ryukyu style with gorgeous Ryukyu limestone walls and red-tile roofs evoking gusuku and "traditional" Okinawa.
		It connotes the "Ryukyu Kingdom" past, although I imagine very few of documents within are actually from it.
	homepage.mac.com /goyaboy/iblog/C902080088/E362179980 (230 words)

	Ryukyu Studies Since 1854, Western Encounter Part II, 5 Volumes - Reprints, Curzon Press, 2002
		The Ryukyu kingdom, today's Okinawa prefecture, occupies a singular place in the history of the contacts between Japan and the west.
		The Ryukyu kingdom first drew the attention of Europeans in the early 16th century, when Japan was still inaccessible.
		But strategic attempts to establish official relations between the Ryukyu government and western powers during the 19th century caused grave concern in Japan where it was realized that a prolonged resistance to western pressures was doomed to fail.
	www.baxleystamps.com /litho/ryukyu_5vol.shtml (737 words)

	Shurijo Castle in Okinawa (Mike's Weblog) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Okinawa was originally its own country, a series of islands known as the Kingdom of the Ryukyus.
		Before Japan invaded the Kingdom in 1879 and established Okinawa Prefecture, Shurijo Castle was the home of the king.
		The castle was originally constructed in the 14th century, but was burned down and reconstructed several times, most recently having been destroyed in World War II during the Battle of Okinawa (one of the bloodiest but least known battles of the war).
	www.mikesweblog.net /photojournals/2003/shurijo.html (223 words)

	Whitman Professor Analyzes Okinawan Situation from Historical Perspective (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Until it became a prefecture in 1879, the independent kingdom of Ryukyu had stronger ties to China than Japan.
		The Ryukyu kingdom remained independent, but it now owed loyalty and tribute to Japan rather than China.
		The Ryukyu kingdom was annexed and renamed Okinawa after the largest of the islands.
	www.whitman.edu /news/News96-97/japan-op-ed.html (794 words)

	ryukyu
		Still today they are active stages for cultural activities of Ryukyu and local spiritual centers where people living in the region strengthen spiritual ties with each other through prayer and worship for their shared ancestors.
		Sefa-utaki, which was the religious center of the entire Ryukyu Kingdom, still retains those key features of Ryukyuan sacred places known as Utaki: closed thick forests and picturesque rocks.
		It is intriguing that Sefa-utaki commands a view of small islands in the eastern sea between the tree trunks of the thick forest, reminding devout visitors of the old Ryukyuan belief that the gods' land of Nirai Kanai is located far in the east at the end of the sea.
	www.nara.accu.or.jp /english/information/japan/ryukyu.html (1035 words)

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