Today's Japanese Okinawa has always been called Ryukyu in ancient times, and the Ryukyu Kingdom was a hardcore domain of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, how did it become Japanese? To this day, many Okinawans are still reluctant to admit that they are Japanese, and if they want to seek Ryukyu independence, can they realize their wishes? Ryukyu in the Sui Dynasty called Liuqiu Ming Dynasty named Ryukyu, Zhu Yuanzhang sent thirty-six surnames of Min people to Ryukyu to bring advanced technology and talents, the Ryukyu Kingdom has since become a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty until the end of the Qing Dynasty, Ryukyu has been a model student of tribute for hundreds of years, and has a crazy worship of Chinese culture, such as they use the Ming and Qing dynasty names, subjects perform Han rites, wear Han clothes and write Chinese characters, the palace of Shuri Castle, the capital of the Ryukyu Kingdom, is not sitting north facing south but facing west, Expressing obedience and envy for China, it can be said that Chinese civilization is engraved in the bones of the Ryukyu people from generation to generation, the Ryukyu Kingdom is located in the Ryukyu Islands, the geographical location is very superior, in addition to the tribute trade to the Ming and Qing dynasties, Ryukyu also carried out trade with Japan, Korea and Southeast Asia, so that Ryukyu has the reputation of Wanguo Tsuryang, Ryukyu small life is very beautiful, but there is a surrounding country that breaks the peace of life, this country is Japan, Japan's rich Ryukyu Kingdom in order to annex Ryukyu before and after planning for 500 years, In 1609, Shimazu Kahisa, the lord of the Satsuma Domain in southwest Japan, led an army of 3,000 to attack Ryukyu, capturing the Ryukyu Kingdom Shoning and forcing him to write an oath, and 8,000 stone Ryukyu was forced to become the grain and grass supply area of the Satsuma Domain every year, at this time, although the Ming Dynasty was weak, but Longwei was thrown in, especially in Korea, Japan could not find the north, so that the Satsuma Domain had to take into account the face of the Ming Dynasty could not directly annex the Ryukyu, and finally retained the Ryukyu royal family and imperial court, The Ryukyu Kingdom was still willing to continue to maintain clan relations with the Ming Dynasty, so in the following days, it formed, the Ryukyu Kingdom paid tribute to the Ming Dynasty and the Satsuma Domain at the same time, although the Qing Dynasty still gave the Ryukyu independent tribute rights despite the decline of national strength, providing a huge boost to the commercial development of the Ryukyu, Japan in order to completely annex the Ryukyu and continue to create trouble, proposed to the Ryukyu Kingdom in 1875 that to break off the tribute with the Qing Dynasty and abolish the canonization ceremony, it must follow the Meiji year. Ryukyu's foreign affairs are managed by the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ryukyu Kingdom definitely does not want him to say that China has been kind to us for hundreds of years, we cannot break off diplomatic relations with China, unless China wants us to obey, Japan does not go to talk to the Qing government, but arrests the Ryukyu Kingdom, Ryukyu is in danger of destroying the country, Ryukyu has secretly sent people to the Qing government for help many times, asking the Qing government to expel Japan and restore Ryukyu sovereignty, but due to the Qing government's short-sightedness and negative attitude, it did not succeed in the end, In 1879, Japan abolished the Ryukyu Kingdom and incorporated it into Kagoshima Prefecture, and later established Okinawa Prefecture, in order to eliminate the evidence of the invasion of Ryukyu, Japan destroyed all Chinese official documents inside and outside the Ryukyu Palace, after the defeat of the Qing government in the Sino-Japanese War, it lost control over Taiwan and Korea, and no longer had a say in the Ryukyu issue, and finally Ryukyu was annexed by Japan, and the annexation of Ryukyu was one of the most dazzling landmark events in the collapse of China's modern clan system. In fact, after the end of the Anti-Japanese War, China had the opportunity to recover the Ryukyu Kingdom, but it was rejected twice by Chiang Lao and made a big mistake, during World War II, the Ryukyuan people were treated as second-class citizens by Japan In the tragic Battle of Okinawa, the Japanese army resisted 180,000 British and American troops with 120,000 soldiers, eventually resulting in more than 100,000 deaths and injuries in the Japanese army, the Ryukyuan people were used as human shields to pay a heavy price, during the Cairo Conference in 1943, US President Roosevelt twice proposed to Chiang Lao to return Ryukyu to China, However, Lao Chiang Du politely rejected Roosevelt's proposal on the grounds that the situation in Ryukyu was complicated and there should be Sino-US co-administration, so in the declaration issued by Cairo in the later period, only mentioned the territory stolen by Japan, such as Manchuria, Taiwan, Penghu Islands, etc., and did not mention the Ryukyu Islands, so that Lao Liang regretted it, why did Lao Liang regret it, why did Lao Chiang refuse and regretted it, because he had always been concerned about Japan, worried that China's request for Ryukyu would add new contradictions between China and Japan, and Japan would not be able to deal with China in the future, so he was silent about whether it was later against Japan's post-war compensation issue. Lao Chiang advocated repaying his grievances with virtue and giving up the demand for compensation, which shows that he is indeed afraid and contradictory to Japan, in addition, he advocated that China and the United States jointly manage Ryukyu only the United States is the first to follow, because the Ryukyu geography is very important, will become the United States to contain the Soviet Union and Japan, China and the United States jointly manage the Ryukyu will facilitate the United States to act and buy it for itself, in Lao Chiang's view, the United States is leading itself to cooperate on the Ryukyu issue, but after the Cairo Declaration was issued, the subordinates said to the old Chiang that we should want the Ryukyus, which is our vassal country in history, It makes no sense for Japan to rip off the skin and say that Japan is a defeated country, even if it is ripped off, what can it do, this remark made the old Jiang Dameng wake up and regret it, after Japan's defeat, the Ryukyu Islands were temporarily placed under the United States under the proposal of the United Nations, and the fate of the Ryukyu Islands changed again because of a war, after the outbreak of the Korean War, the attitude of the United States changed, from suppressing Japan to supporting Japan Ryukyu became a sugar given to Japan by the United States, and in 1969, the United States signed an agreement with Japan to return Okinawa, and decided to privately give the Ryukyu Islands to Japan, This incident caused great dissatisfaction and opposition from China, the United States insisted on going its own way and officially transferred the Ryukyu Islands to Japan in 1972, and the Japanese political circles rejoiced and vigorously promoted the Japaneseization of Ryukyu to eliminate Chinese culture, in the process Japan learned the lessons of the previous unsuccessful violent conquest of the Ryukyu people, and adopted a ten-year national compulsory education, instilling that Ryukyu children must start from elementary school Japanese, eat Japanese food and wear Japanese clothing to package into today's Okinawa, Ryukyu is especially important to the strategy of the United States, As the first island chain U.S. military in Okinawa has a military base, the U.S. military in Okinawa committed many evils and raped local girls to seize peasant fields, Okinawans launched one fierce protest after another, even then the Japanese government did not dare to manage, most of the cases were not known, causing great harm to the Okinawan people, so every year Okinawans will march and demonstrate to demand that the US military be driven out of Okinawa, which has also prompted some people to advocate the independence of Ryukyu to establish an independent republic, many Okinawans still regard themselves as Ryukyuan people do not forget history and ancestors, Because Ryukyu has been an independent kingdom for a long time and has a glorious history, from the current situation, Okinawa's independence is very slim, and the Ryukyu independence movement has encountered difficulties, but in any case, I think we should support the Okinawa people's own wishes and go their own way
