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In 1993 he was invited to Okinawa to lecture at the University of the Ryukyus.
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In all, the Ryukyus would support fifty-one groups, half expected to arrive as soon as facilities could support them.
Whirlwind Barrett Tillman 2010
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In all, the Ryukyus would support fifty-one groups, half expected to arrive as soon as facilities could support them.
Whirlwind Barrett Tillman 2010
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The Ryukyus are located in the ocean northwest of China's Taiwan and southwest of Japan's 九週洲島 islands, and include the Senkakus, the....
Archive 2008-06-01 Michael Turton 2008
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The 1953 news article from the Renmin Ribao that used the Chinese version of the Japanese name for the islands, and included them in Ryukyus, is imaged above.
Archive 2008-06-01 Michael Turton 2008
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In fact, Professor Katsuma Yagasaki of the University of the Ryukyus said, "DU shells are atrocious radioactive weapons, which must never be allowed to use."
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As on the main islands, the smaller islands of the Ryukyus and Ogasawaras have lost habitat to timber plantations and urban development.
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In 1609 one daimyo invaded the kingdom of the Ryukyus with shogunal consent, appending it to the Japanese empire.
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Nearly all the original subtropical forest on the Ogasawaras has been cleared, and in the Ryukyus, only small areas remain on Amami and Okinawa, mainly in protected areas.
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The main gap in the protected area system is in the Ryukyus, where most forested areas are not properly protected.
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