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"Ryukyu" is an other name from the Chinese side, and "Okinawa" is a Japanese cognate of Okinawa's indigenous name "Uchinā", originating from the residents of the main island referring to the main island against the surrounding islands, Miyako and Yaeyama. [27] Mainland Japanese adapted Okinawa as the way to call these people. [citation needed]
Ryukyu is the principal candidate because it roughly corresponds to the maximum extent of the Ryūkyū Kingdom. However, it is not necessarily considered neutral by the people of Amami, Miyako, and Yaeyama, who were marginalized under the Okinawa-centered kingdom. [12] The Ōsumi Islands are not included because they are culturally part of ...
The cuisine of the Ryukyu Islands are a diverse collection of regional foods, and have been influenced by other cuisines as a result of trade during the time of the Ryukyu Kingdom. There have also been recent additions to local Ryukyuan cuisine as a result of American military presence. Popular dishes include goya champuru, rafute and taco rice.
The people were described [by whom?] as appearing to be a "connecting link" between the Chinese and Japanese. [24] After the Taiwan Expedition of 1874, Japan's role as the protector of the Ryukyuan people was acknowledged [by whom?]; but the fiction of the Ryukyu Kingdom's independence was partially maintained until 1879. [25]
The Ryukyu Kingdom [a] 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.
The Ryukyu Islands were inhabited from at least 32,000–18,000 years ago, [59] but their fate and relation with contemporary Ryukyuan people is uncertain. [60] During the Jōmon period (i.e., Kaizuka) or so-called shell midden period (6,700–1,000 YBP ) of the Northern Ryukyus, [ 60 ] the population lived in a hunter-gatherer society, with ...
Mr. Miyagi, played by Pat Morita from the Karate Kid trilogy; Mugen from the anime series Samurai Champloo; Mutsumi Otohime from the manga series Love Hina; Maxi from the Soulcalibur series of video games
Many people were struggling economically in the Ryukyu Islands during the late 1800s and early 1900s ().As a result, many Ryukyuans left the islands when emigration was legalized in Japan, arriving in places such as Brazil, Peru, Hawaii and mainland Japan.