At least they were able to keep their kingdom until it was dissolved in 1878 But honestly have they sent their armies to assist the Koreans in the imjin war They would’ve had sovereignty until 1878-1945
their fate is sad... every year Okinawan women die at the hands of AMerican soldiers. Ryukyu are punished for something they themselves were victims of
@@aron2974 Occupying their land and cultural genocide, speaking Ryukyu was banned, it is now almost extinct, their culture was banned. but when the Japanese invaded, almost the entire Ryukyu people were annihilated.
Past to present…some of the most humbled human beings you can ever meet…island screams PEACE literally ✌️ and the vibes of love you just can’t deny! Part American and Oki myself…I love my culture and island!!!
Amazing. I read that your royal ancestors were absorbed/annexed into Edo/Tokyo, does that mean that your clan relocated to the Toko area or perhaps your family chose to leave the country? I am a descendent of Song Dynasty royalty and was amazed that Ryukyuan people share common burial practice (and many beliefs) matching 靈山聖墓 Lingnan Holy Tombs as Southern Chinese, Cantonese, and Fujianese, such people (in most of the Coastal cities) I have discovered to be "Israelite" (God's people as found in biblical people) in origin as our clan names are listed on the Kaifeng Steles in Central China. The steles reference our arrival in the early Zhou Dynasty and mentions Abraham as out ancestor. The other side of my family (from Panyu, Canton - also Southern China) are originally "Sogdian" (a Central Asian people) and they built the Silk Road that actually extended from Kaifeng to Korea and certain Islands in Japan, that I now suspect Ryuku was one of them. Indian Sandalwood used for incense and ceremonial ritual washing before worship are one of the signature imports from India, fragments with Sogdian script have been discovered in Japan, but the strongest evidence would be in the people, their names, culture, and religious practice, that the more I search this area I find more and more small clans that broke away from famous Chinese Imperial clans and went to Japan and Korea. What the mainstream CCP propaganda and Western historians fail to teach is that the Zhou, Tang, Song, and Ming Dynasty people are all related genetically and by religious practice, worshipping the Most High God, Shangdi, and the Lamb of Heaven, the promised Lord of Life. It's detailed in the Chinese Classics, in Rites of Zhou, and most "Confucian" and "Taoist" philosophers believed the same. This belief and worship system was the heart of everything, all religious-governmental life and the whole calendar revolved around the burnt sacrifices, offerings, prayers, fastings, and purification rituals.
@@damienscabinetmaking4243 I claim descendant through my fraternal grandmother. She was born in Naha, Okinawa. She met my grandfather who is a descendant of the imperial family of japan. Most of my grandmother’s relatives still live in Okinawa while most of my grandfather’s relatives live in Hawaii or on mainland japan.
Jpn should free Ryukyu and let Ryukyu to be independent and back to its glorious kingdom. Jpn has destroyed too much Ryukyu culture. lives, environment.
According to the and , two the most important legal documents on the international rule and order after World War II, the Kingdom of Ryukyu does not belong to Japan. The five permanent members of the UN should take responsibility and provide international legal protection and material, financial assistance for the restoration of the Ryukyu Kingdom. Of course, when the Ryukyu Kingdom is restored, the U.S. military can negotiate with the new Ryukyu government to allow the U.S. military to stay in Ryukyu, continue to provide national security for the kingdom.
Samurai domains were eaten up by the growing imperial court too. There were 261 samurai domains (250 domains throughout the country, excluding those of the Tokugawa family). Starting in 1871, an Imperial Edict abolished almost all of the Samurai domains and reorganized them 261 into prefectures and administrative cities, samurai rebellions broke out in the following years. From Japan's perspective Okinawa was nothing but just another domain. It isn't covered up, just not particularly any different under their point of view
Why only, pattani thailand,, ryukyu kingdom have a good relationship with Malacca kingdom.. And in Ryukyu record, the strongest worrior and admiral in Malacca name HANG TUAH have go to ryukyu three time.
@@livingroom1381 why is it annoying? Isn't that something you should want? People being educated in other cultures and societies?? Maybe then there wouldn't be cultures completely vanishing and being forgotten.
@@vz8432 Because outsiders are oftentimes rude, disrespectful, and annoying. You aren't sending your best. Asian culture is fine and flourishing, if anybody's culture is vanishing and being forgotten it's probably yours.
Im 100% white and so is my dad but my brother is half japanese and we have different moms. My dad lived in okinawa for years being in the military but never lived on base and always in Naha with my brothers mothers family. He completely 100% assimilated into the society and respected and honored it more than anything. He studied and taught Akido and helped run the store my brothers grandmother and grandfather owned. My brothers grandmother was imprisoned by the japanese military in ww2 and used as a sex slave and loved america and americans cuz they liberated her. My brothers grandfather was from a super small island all the way at the end of the chain of islands and there was only like 60 people on his island and when he was a late teen he built a wooden boat and rowed all the way to okinawa for a chance at a better life. But yes a lot of american military are disrespectful, rude, and just plain ignorant when it comes to the customs and culture of okinawa and its people and history but not all of them are like that. My dad would give anything to go back. Now hes almost 60 and had a stroke a few months back and is half paralyzed and in a wheelchair and im his full time caretaker. We have so much stuff he brought home from okinawa around the house and love his stories about it. My brother used to go back every summer to see his moms side of the family but she moved to america with my dad but stayed here even after they divorced. Neither of them have visited much in the past 5 or 10 years. My brothers aunt lives in hong kong, his uncle has been institutionalized practically since birth because he is extremely mentally ill with schizophrenia and theres a big stigma that comes with it in their culture apparently. His other uncle was Yakuza and now lives on the mainland. His grandfather died awhile ago and his grandmother is all thats left. Shes the last one there practically of the whole family. They sold the store when my brother was a teenager but still own the home they always have. My brother is 32 now and used to be super appreciative and loved going there but really has zero interest in it anymore. He is a programmer for a large company that makes custom machines that fabricate the fuel lines for jet engines in fighter planes and he wrote the coding that runs the machines that fabricate it and he travels alot so that may be the reason why. He also works for space x and travels between here in st louis and texas alot at their launch station. Hes definitely smart comparing to 99% of the population lmao but our whole family is pretty intellectual, i always told him its his okinawaan ancestry that gave him the upper hand over the rest of the family lmao
@@ElidaeDanh In 1869, Tokugawa shogunate was overthrown and Japanese empire was established. In 1872, Ryukyu kingdom came under direct control of Japanese empire. But they couldn't immediately annex because Ryukyu kingdom was a tributary state of Qing empire. One day, Ryukyuan merchants were adrift to Taiwan and they were brutally killed by indigenous tribe. Japanese dispatched troops to Taiwan, saying that they're punishing the tribe for killing the Ryukyu merchants, whom they claimed to be Japanese. Qing just compensated to Japan without intervening in Ryukyuan issues. Japan realised that Qing isn't interested in Ryukyu kingdom. In 1879, the last king was deposed and Ryukyu kingdom was turned into Okinawan prefecture. However the former US president, Ulysses S. Grant was worried that Japan might get stronger by taking over Ryukyu islands. So, He went to Qing empire and discussed the Ryukyu islands. And he proposed to both Qing and Japan to partition the islands and revive the kingdom in the middle. But Qing couldn't afford to stop the Japanese that they just didn't respond to it. Finally, the last chance of Ryukyu kingdom's independence was gone.
These videos were produced by the Okinawan government. So though what you are saying is correct (they probably meant Kamakura anyways) you probably should cast your dispersions elsewhere. The narrator is likely just reading the script he was given. Also -- 'ToKugawa'
All the comments talking about gaining back independence and being "freed" of the Japanese absolutely don't seem to get it. I'm half Okinawan/American, I lived In Okinawa for 6 years while I was growing up. It's cool and interesting to know this history about my people, that we had a proud line of Kings, but things are different now and most people accept that. Even as an independent state, the Ryukyu Kingdom was always a tributary state of some country or another. I wish the Japanese hadn't been so brutal in the past, with things like suppressing language and culture to become more "Japanese" while still treating them as second-class citizens, but you can't change the past, and there's no good evidence that "giving back independence" is the way to right the wrongs of that past. We are assimilated. Sure there are issues with things like the bases and stuff, but I can't see any benefit to becoming a sovereign state separate from mainland Japan. We get the health care and other social benefits, the protection of being a part of bigger country like Japan so that we aren't taken over by the Chinese and "claimed" the way Taiwan is. I don't get why people think it would be better outside of a longing and nostalgia for a past that can't be revived.
Tell me why after 700 years Spain still want to get rid of Islam??? You have no ball and it doesn't mean others don't. Both Japan and America should p!!s off. Historically, Luchu is like Singapore, way richer than Japan. As a half bastxxd, you are happy just because of some health care and other social benefits😒
@@Abdul-Alhazred what the fuck are you talking about. We're literally the most broke ass prefecture. And you think race mixing is bad? Hmm🤔 sounds pretty racist. And if you consider not getting colonized by China instead of Japan "other social benefits" than yeah I guess I am happy about that. You'll speak for a people you know nothing about as if you're an authority on anything, and you'll dismiss the words of someone like me because I'm not Okinawan enough for a racist like you even though I grew up and lived there for years. For the love of God, go touch grass.
Ryukyu has been colonized by US and Japan until now.
I hope the Ryukyuan nation can restore their long-bereft sovereignty
Me too
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@@user-lw8dr6xx8i
No, someone who has the ability to experience empathy for a people being colonized until now
Restore Ryukyu independence and hornor, it was forcefully brutally taken by japan...
At least they were able to keep their kingdom until it was dissolved in 1878
But honestly have they sent their armies to assist the Koreans in the imjin war
They would’ve had sovereignty until 1878-1945
their fate is sad... every year Okinawan women die at the hands of AMerican soldiers. Ryukyu are punished for something they themselves were victims of
But why? What they do to them?
@@aron2974 Occupying their land and cultural genocide, speaking Ryukyu was banned, it is now almost extinct, their culture was banned.
but when the Japanese invaded, almost the entire Ryukyu people were annihilated.
@@livingroom1381 okay that's terrible. Pray for more love and peace for the world. At least we are all humans...
Thanks for taking the time to put together all this information. It's an area I knew nothing about before.
Past to present…some of the most humbled human beings you can ever meet…island screams PEACE literally ✌️ and the vibes of love you just can’t deny! Part American and Oki myself…I love my culture and island!!!
I'm a descendant of the Ryukyuan royal family!
Mee too.. the princess of the crown prince Sho Jun, prince nagagasuku
Amazing. I read that your royal ancestors were absorbed/annexed into Edo/Tokyo, does that mean that your clan relocated to the Toko area or perhaps your family chose to leave the country? I am a descendent of Song Dynasty royalty and was amazed that Ryukyuan people share common burial practice (and many beliefs) matching 靈山聖墓 Lingnan Holy Tombs as Southern Chinese, Cantonese, and Fujianese, such people (in most of the Coastal cities) I have discovered to be "Israelite" (God's people as found in biblical people) in origin as our clan names are listed on the Kaifeng Steles in Central China. The steles reference our arrival in the early Zhou Dynasty and mentions Abraham as out ancestor. The other side of my family (from Panyu, Canton - also Southern China) are originally "Sogdian" (a Central Asian people) and they built the Silk Road that actually extended from Kaifeng to Korea and certain Islands in Japan, that I now suspect Ryuku was one of them. Indian Sandalwood used for incense and ceremonial ritual washing before worship are one of the signature imports from India, fragments with Sogdian script have been discovered in Japan, but the strongest evidence would be in the people, their names, culture, and religious practice, that the more I search this area I find more and more small clans that broke away from famous Chinese Imperial clans and went to Japan and Korea. What the mainstream CCP propaganda and Western historians fail to teach is that the Zhou, Tang, Song, and Ming Dynasty people are all related genetically and by religious practice, worshipping the Most High God, Shangdi, and the Lamb of Heaven, the promised Lord of Life. It's detailed in the Chinese Classics, in Rites of Zhou, and most "Confucian" and "Taoist" philosophers believed the same. This belief and worship system was the heart of everything, all religious-governmental life and the whole calendar revolved around the burnt sacrifices, offerings, prayers, fastings, and purification rituals.
@@damienscabinetmaking4243 I claim descendant through my fraternal grandmother. She was born in Naha, Okinawa. She met my grandfather who is a descendant of the imperial family of japan. Most of my grandmother’s relatives still live in Okinawa while most of my grandfather’s relatives live in Hawaii or on mainland japan.
Jpn should free Ryukyu and let Ryukyu to be independent and back to its glorious kingdom. Jpn has destroyed too much Ryukyu culture. lives, environment.
支持琉球復国
Interesting very interesting.
According to the and , two the most important legal documents on the international rule and order after World War II, the Kingdom of Ryukyu does not belong to Japan.
The five permanent members of the UN should take responsibility and provide international legal protection and material, financial assistance for the restoration of the Ryukyu Kingdom. Of course, when the Ryukyu Kingdom is restored, the U.S. military can negotiate with the new Ryukyu government to allow the U.S. military to stay in Ryukyu, continue to provide national security for the kingdom.
The world needs to know this, we all think japan is all nice and rainbow but they seem to have covered up their dark history well. Free Okinawa
This exactly.
Free Okinawa × Free Ryukku √
A butthurt Chinese or Korean detected.
Samurai domains were eaten up by the growing imperial court too. There were 261 samurai domains (250 domains throughout the country, excluding those of the Tokugawa family). Starting in 1871, an Imperial Edict abolished almost all of the Samurai domains and reorganized them 261 into prefectures and administrative cities, samurai rebellions broke out in the following years. From Japan's perspective Okinawa was nothing but just another domain. It isn't covered up, just not particularly any different under their point of view
They do same with indonesian. 🖕
No one accuses Japan's genocide.
Not true.
Because merikkka backs it!
Because their history books are altered 😅
Beautifully told
1:08 they meant to say the Kamakura, not the Tokugawa
琉球独立！
Damn. Never realized how hard Mugen had it.
Free Liuqiu!
Why only, pattani thailand,, ryukyu kingdom have a good relationship with Malacca kingdom.. And in Ryukyu record, the strongest worrior and admiral in Malacca name HANG TUAH have go to ryukyu three time.
Ryukyu also had commercial relationship with Ayutthaya.
Bullshit
South east Asian kingdom had relationship with Ryukyu
I wish the account on the bell was read. It's quite touching
You will always see a super gaijin participating in an Asian festival.
It could be a Caucasian male born in Japan/Okinawa.
it's annoying
@@livingroom1381 why is it annoying? Isn't that something you should want? People being educated in other cultures and societies?? Maybe then there wouldn't be cultures completely vanishing and being forgotten.
@@vz8432
Because outsiders are oftentimes rude, disrespectful, and annoying. You aren't sending your best. Asian culture is fine and flourishing, if anybody's culture is vanishing and being forgotten it's probably yours.
Im 100% white and so is my dad but my brother is half japanese and we have different moms. My dad lived in okinawa for years being in the military but never lived on base and always in Naha with my brothers mothers family. He completely 100% assimilated into the society and respected and honored it more than anything. He studied and taught Akido and helped run the store my brothers grandmother and grandfather owned. My brothers grandmother was imprisoned by the japanese military in ww2 and used as a sex slave and loved america and americans cuz they liberated her. My brothers grandfather was from a super small island all the way at the end of the chain of islands and there was only like 60 people on his island and when he was a late teen he built a wooden boat and rowed all the way to okinawa for a chance at a better life. But yes a lot of american military are disrespectful, rude, and just plain ignorant when it comes to the customs and culture of okinawa and its people and history but not all of them are like that. My dad would give anything to go back. Now hes almost 60 and had a stroke a few months back and is half paralyzed and in a wheelchair and im his full time caretaker. We have so much stuff he brought home from okinawa around the house and love his stories about it. My brother used to go back every summer to see his moms side of the family but she moved to america with my dad but stayed here even after they divorced. Neither of them have visited much in the past 5 or 10 years. My brothers aunt lives in hong kong, his uncle has been institutionalized practically since birth because he is extremely mentally ill with schizophrenia and theres a big stigma that comes with it in their culture apparently. His other uncle was Yakuza and now lives on the mainland. His grandfather died awhile ago and his grandmother is all thats left. Shes the last one there practically of the whole family. They sold the store when my brother was a teenager but still own the home they always have. My brother is 32 now and used to be super appreciative and loved going there but really has zero interest in it anymore. He is a programmer for a large company that makes custom machines that fabricate the fuel lines for jet engines in fighter planes and he wrote the coding that runs the machines that fabricate it and he travels alot so that may be the reason why. He also works for space x and travels between here in st louis and texas alot at their launch station. Hes definitely smart comparing to 99% of the population lmao but our whole family is pretty intellectual, i always told him its his okinawaan ancestry that gave him the upper hand over the rest of the family lmao
great documentary.
But why doesn't it show how Ryukyu kingdom was annexed by empire of Japan?
Oh Yeah, I still never knew how it was annexed. I only know why but not how?
@@ElidaeDanh
In 1869, Tokugawa shogunate was overthrown and Japanese empire was established. In 1872, Ryukyu kingdom came under direct control of Japanese empire. But they couldn't immediately annex because Ryukyu kingdom was a tributary state of Qing empire. One day, Ryukyuan merchants were adrift to Taiwan and they were brutally killed by indigenous tribe. Japanese dispatched troops to Taiwan, saying that they're punishing the tribe for killing the Ryukyu merchants, whom they claimed to be Japanese.
Qing just compensated to Japan without intervening in Ryukyuan issues. Japan realised that Qing isn't interested in Ryukyu kingdom. In 1879, the last king was deposed and Ryukyu kingdom was turned into Okinawan prefecture.
However the former US president, Ulysses S. Grant was worried that Japan might get stronger by taking over Ryukyu islands. So, He went to Qing empire and discussed the Ryukyu islands. And he proposed to both Qing and Japan to partition the islands and revive the kingdom in the middle. But Qing couldn't afford to stop the Japanese that they just didn't respond to it. Finally, the last chance of Ryukyu kingdom's independence was gone.
@@user-nc5yc9es6j really, dang. I feel bad for my ancestors having to deal with that
@@ElidaeDanh
Are you a Ryukyuan?
@@user-nc5yc9es6j yeah I am part, my grandfather. So i don’t really feel connected but at least I’m related ethnically.
Sanshin forever
Karate was made by Ryukyuans to fight against Japan. It's so sad people know it's Japanese since Japan colonized Okinawa.
Free Okinawa, Free Ainu people, Free Taiwan, Free Tibet
Based
Free Hawaii
free manchulia
Free Guam, free Texas, free all US states from federal government. Free your faced.
Vg
Tokugawa ?late 12 th.century.Another USA ignoramus. Togugawa shogunate started 1600 A.D. I shake my head to what comes next
These videos were produced by the Okinawan government. So though what you are saying is correct (they probably meant Kamakura anyways) you probably should cast your dispersions elsewhere. The narrator is likely just reading the script he was given. Also -- 'ToKugawa'
@@hillsonn sorry to offend anyone by making basic corrections to history.
All the comments talking about gaining back independence and being "freed" of the Japanese absolutely don't seem to get it. I'm half Okinawan/American, I lived In Okinawa for 6 years while I was growing up. It's cool and interesting to know this history about my people, that we had a proud line of Kings, but things are different now and most people accept that. Even as an independent state, the Ryukyu Kingdom was always a tributary state of some country or another. I wish the Japanese hadn't been so brutal in the past, with things like suppressing language and culture to become more "Japanese" while still treating them as second-class citizens, but you can't change the past, and there's no good evidence that "giving back independence" is the way to right the wrongs of that past. We are assimilated. Sure there are issues with things like the bases and stuff, but I can't see any benefit to becoming a sovereign state separate from mainland Japan. We get the health care and other social benefits, the protection of being a part of bigger country like Japan so that we aren't taken over by the Chinese and "claimed" the way Taiwan is. I don't get why people think it would be better outside of a longing and nostalgia for a past that can't be revived.
Tell me why after 700 years Spain still want to get rid of Islam??? You have no ball and it doesn't mean others don't. Both Japan and America should p!!s off. Historically, Luchu is like Singapore, way richer than Japan. As a half bastxxd, you are happy just because of some health care and other social benefits😒
@@Abdul-Alhazred what the fuck are you talking about. We're literally the most broke ass prefecture. And you think race mixing is bad? Hmm🤔 sounds pretty racist. And if you consider not getting colonized by China instead of Japan "other social benefits" than yeah I guess I am happy about that. You'll speak for a people you know nothing about as if you're an authority on anything, and you'll dismiss the words of someone like me because I'm not Okinawan enough for a racist like you even though I grew up and lived there for years. For the love of God, go touch grass.
@@chihirokannda7501 Spineless mudblood Jap-asslicker.🤣🤣🤣
@@Abdul-Alhazred cringe. OK elder millenial
We Support Ryukyu prople!