How many Ryukyu people are there?

The Ryukyu Islands are located in the East China Sea, with a northeast-southwest direction, including Dayu Islands, Tugara Islands, Amami Islands, Okinawa Islands, Miyako Islands, Yaeyama Islands, etc. The Diaoyu Islands are not within the scope of the Ryukyu Islands. It is about 7 kilometers away from Shanghai, Ningbo and Wenzhou along the coast of China. Before 1871, there was Ryukyu Kingdom, whose territory starts from Amami Island in the north, reaches Xijie Island in the east, ends at Bozhaojian Island in the south, and borders Nagano Island in the west.

At present, it is under the jurisdiction of Japan, a defeated country in World War II, but the administrative power in some areas is still exercised by the United States, and more than 7% of the US military bases in Japan are concentrated in Ryukyu. In 1972, the US military handed over the Ryukyu Islands to Japan for trust (sovereignty does not belong to Japan), and the Ryukyu people gathered to protest against the US military's deprivation of their independence. According to the supplementary provisions of Article 8 of the Potsdam Proclamation: "The conditions of the Cairo Declaration will be implemented, and Japan's sovereignty will be limited to other small islands decided by Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu, Shikoku and us. "At present, all over the world, there is a movement to support the" Ryukyu Kingdom's rejuvenation ",and there are also claims for autonomy or the implementation of one country, two systems. Due to the long-term influence of Minnan culture in China, customs and habits are somewhat different from Japanese culture.

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