Foreword
Chapter One Introduction： The Importance of an Even-minded， Objective Standpoint
The Most Pressing Task： Seeking Shared Understanding of Facts
Japan-China Relations： A Look Back to 40 Years Ago and Forward to the Future
Chapter Two The Tripartite Relationship Between the Ryukyus， China，and Japan
Ming Dynasty Foreign Policy and the Ryukyu Kingdom
Favorable Ming Policies Toward Ryukyu
New Developments in East Asia and Changes in Ryukyu
The Beginning of Satsuma Rule ofRyukyu
Satsuma Control of Ryukyu
The Ban on Catholicism and Ryukyu
The Concealment of Smuggling Trade
The Implementation of Kenchi Land Survey Policies and
Ryukyu's Incorporation as a Vassal of Satsuma
Ryukyu， Source of Intelligence on China
Ryukyu's Relations with Japan and China， Not OnlyDual Dependency
Chapter Three The Thirty-six Islands of Ryukyu
The Ryukyu Kuniezu
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Tei Junsoku's Zhi Nan Guang Yi
Records from the Chinese Document Shun FengXiang Song
About the Discoverer of Shun FengXiang Song， Xiang Da
Naval Defense Maps
Records of Nobility-Conferring Emissaries
The Okinawa Trough： a Natural Barrier
Chapter Four East Asian Upheavals and the Ryukyu Kingdom
Qing China： Sacrificial Lamb to the Western Powers
The Opium Wars and Ryukyu
Ryukyu's Response to France
American Sea Lanes Across the Pacific
Perry's Japan Expedition
Exploring the Bonin Islands
Ten Days in Edo Bay
The Fight for the Bonins
Who Really Discovered the Bonin Islands？
Otsuki Fumihiko's Ogasawarato Shinshi
The Significance of the Convention ofKanagawa
An Agreement with Ryukyu
Chapter Five From Tokugawa Shogunate to Meiji Restoration
The Signing of the Sino-Japanese Friendship and Trade Treaty
Ryukyuans Killed in Taiwan
Annexing the Ryukyu Kingdom
Tribute Forbidden
The Handling ofRyukyu
President Grant's Intervention
Opposition from Within Ryukyu
Chapter Six Nishimnra Sutezo， 1885
The Fourth Governor of Okinawa Prefecture
Erecting Sovereignty Markers on the Daito Islands
Secret Orders to Survey Kumeaka Island， Kuba Island， and
Uotsuri Island
Do Not Erect at Present
Chapter Seven Victory in the First Sino-Japanese War and Subsequent
Surreptitious Occupation
Going Abroad for Albatross
Suppressing the Escapees to China
Governor Maruoka's 1890 Report
Sasamori Gisuke's Adventures in the Southern lslands
Governor Narahara's 1893 Report
Secret Letter No. 12， Response No. 153 to the Department of Prefectural
Administration
Japan's Overwhelming Victory in the First Sino-Japanese War
AFar Cry from 1885
Chapter Eight Framework for the Treaty of Shimonoseki Drafted in January
Deliberate Sabotaging of the Peace Negotiations
Excluding Taiwan from Ceasefire Agreement
Signing of the Peace Treaty
Chapter Nine Assessing the Japanese Government's Key Claims
Are they Part of the Nansei-shoto ？
The Only On-the-Ground Survey
Were Proper Annexation Procedures Followed？
A Comparison with the Pratas Islands
Commonality： Imposing Occupation by Siezing the Moment of Military Victory
Appendix
Afterword
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