Article from the Renmin Ribao, 1953
<p>(Excerpt, provisional translation by Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan)
</p><p>"Battle of people in the Ryukyu Islands against the U.S. occupation
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The Ryukyu Islands lie scattered on the sea between the Northeast of Taiwan of our State and the Southwest of Kyushu, Japan. They consist of 7 groups of islands; the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Senkaku_Islands" class="extiw" title="w:en:Senkaku Islands">Senkaku Islands</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Sakishima_Islands" class="extiw" title="w:en:Sakishima Islands">w:en:Sakishima Islands</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Dait%C5%8D_Islands" class="extiw" title="w:en:Daitō Islands">Daito Islands</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Okinawa_Islands" class="extiw" title="w:en:Okinawa Islands">w:en:Okinawa Islands</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Amami_%C5%8Cshima" class="extiw" title="w:en:Amami Ōshima">Oshima Islands</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Tokara_Islands" class="extiw" title="w:en:Tokara Islands">w:en:Tokara Islands</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:%C5%8Csumi_Islands" class="extiw" title="w:en:Ōsumi Islands">Osumi Islands</a>. Each of them consists of a lot of small and large islands and there are more than 50 islands with names and about 400 islands without names. Overall they cover 4,670 square kilometers. The largest of them is the Okinawa Island in the Okinawa Islands, which covers 1,211 square kilometers. The second largest is the Amami Oshima Island in the Oshima Islands, which covers 730 square kilometers. The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Ryukyu_Islands" class="extiw" title="w:en:Ryukyu Islands">w:en:Ryukyu Islands</a> stretch over 1,000 kilometers, inside of which is our East China Sea (the East Sea in Chinese) and outside of which is the high seas of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Pacific_Ocean" class="extiw" title="w:en:Pacific Ocean">w:en:Pacific Ocean</a>."
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:People%27s_Daily" class="extiw" title="w:en:People's Daily">Renmin Ribao</a>
2012-09-20 15:11:02
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