[BubbaJunebug]

Check the history of the island...the japs took it from china about 1870...win some lose some now they want it back...which really wouldn’t be to hard

[Zhang Fei]

Check the history of the island...the japs took it from china about 1870...win some lose some now they want it back...which really wouldn’t be to hard

The Chinese also have a claim to Hawaii, which the US annexed in 1896:

On November 29, it was revealed that US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stated in a question and answer session at a speech she gave in Washington, that when the US had consulted with China about the past problems of territoriality in the South China Sea, the Chinese side had said that they could also ‘insist on (territorial rights to) Hawai’i’. To which Clinton replied, ‘Well, you’re welcome to try. Territorial rights will be settled through arbitration institutions. That is precisely the action that we want you to take’.

[dfwgator]

Sounds like China wants a “Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere” of their own.

[Zhang Fei]

Okinawa has been under Japanese control for 400 years, longer than Tibet or East Turkistan has been under Chinese control. The Tokugawa Shogunate avoided formal annexation because it did not want to go to war with China, which has always viewed its neighbors as future Chinese provinces:

In 1609, the Shimazu clan, which controlled the region that is now Kagoshima Prefecture, conquered the Ryūkyū Kingdom. The Ryūkyū Kingdom was obliged to agree to form a tributary relationship with the Satsuma and the Tokugawa shogunate, while maintaining its previous tributary relationship with China; Ryukyuan sovereignty was maintained since complete annexation would have created a conflict with China. The Satsuma clan earned considerable profits from trade with China during a period in which foreign trade was heavily restricted by the shogunate. A Ryukyuan embassy in Edo.

Although Satsuma maintained strong influence over the islands, the Ryūkyū Kingdom maintained a considerable degree of domestic political freedom for over two hundred years. Four years after the 1868 Meiji Restoration, the Japanese government, through military incursions, officially annexed the kingdom and renamed it Ryukyu han. At the time, the Qing Dynasty of China asserted sovereignty over the islands of the Ryūkyū Kingdom, since the Ryūkyū Kingdom was also a tributary nation of China. Ryukyu han became Okinawa Prefecture of Japan in 1879, even though all other hans had become prefectures of Japan in 1872. In 1912, Okinawans first obtained the right to vote for representatives to the national Diet which had been established in 1890.[4]