Liuchiu

Thirdly, that their right to the sovereignty of Liuchiu was formally acknowledged by China in 1874, by the payment of an indemnity to Japan for the slaughter of the shipwrecked Liuchiuans by the Formosan savages. To this we may add the pregnant fact that no protest was offered by the Chinese to the conquest of Liuchiu in the first instance, nor was any made until quite recently, when the Islands were brought under the more direct control of the Japanese Government by being incorporated with an existing ken; a consideration which appears to be overlooked in the documents before us, probably because the Japanese are aware that they permitted their Liuchiuan subjects to continue certain tributary relations with China which were flagrantly inconsistent with the fealty they owed to the Emperor of Japan.

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The great Jesuit missionary, St. Francis Xavier, also spent some time at Öita, and Otomo, its lord, was the first Daimio to embrace Christianity. Still farther south, and in line with these, stretches the chain of the Liuchiu islands, the westernmost of the group lying within 50 miles of the Formosan coast.

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ON EASTER SUNDAY 1945, American Marines and Army troops landed on Okinawa in the Liuchiu Islands.

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On the sea, all the off-shore islands from Liaotung and Shantung to Hainan were accounted for (except Taiwan and Liuchiu or Ryukyu Islands which were first explored in the time of Sun Chuan in 230 A. D. by The Wu Empire).

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