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The Ryukyu Islands [note 1] (琉球列島, Ryūkyū-rettō), also known as the Nansei Islands (南西諸島, Nansei-shotō, lit. "Southwest Islands") or the Ryukyu Arc ( 琉球弧 , Ryūkyū-ko ) , are a chain of Japanese islands that stretch southwest from Kyushu to Taiwan : the Ōsumi , Tokara , Amami , Okinawa , and Sakishima Islands ...
- Sakishima Islands
View of the Sakishima Islands from the ISS. The Sakishima...
- History of the Ryukyu Islands
This article is about the history of the Ryukyu Islands...
- Ryukyu Disposition
The Ryukyu Disposition (琉球処分, Ryūkyū shobun), [2] [3] also...
- Ryukyuan languages
The Ryukyuan languages (琉球語派, Ryūkyū-goha, also 琉球諸語,...
- Sakishima Islands
The Ryukyu Kingdom [a] (native pronunciation: Luchu) was a kingdom in the Ryukyu Islands from 1429 to 1879. It was ruled as a tributary state of imperial Ming China by the Ryukyuan monarchy, who unified Okinawa Island to end the Sanzan period, and extended the kingdom to the Amami Islands and Sakishima Islands.
This article is about the history of the Ryukyu Islands southwest of the main islands of Japan.
The Amami, Okinawa, Miyako, and Yaeyama Islands have a native population collectively called the Ryukyuan people, named for the former Ryukyu Kingdom that ruled them. The varied Ryukyuan languages are traditionally spoken on these islands, and the major islands have their own distinct languages.
Nov 11, 2019 · The history of Ryukyu Islands, with Okinawa at its center, increasingly improved as the archipelago was located in an important maritime trade route, between mainland China, the Korean Peninsula, Taiwan, Japan, and Malaysia.
The Ryukyu Disposition (琉球処分, Ryūkyū shobun), [2] [3] also called the Ryukyu Annexation (琉球併合, Ryūkyū heigō) [4] [5] [6] or the annexation of Okinawa, [7] [8] was the political process during the early years of the Meiji period that saw the incorporation of the former Ryukyu Kingdom into the Empire of Japan as Okinawa ...
The Ryukyuan languages (琉球語派, Ryūkyū-goha, also 琉球諸語, Ryūkyū-shogo or 島言葉 in Ryukyuan, Shima kutuba, literally "Island Speech"), also Lewchewan or Luchuan (/ luːˈtʃuːən /), are the indigenous languages of the Ryukyu Islands, the southernmost part of the Japanese archipelago.
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