• The Okinawa Reversion Agreement (Japanese: 沖縄返還協定, Hepburn: Okinawa henkan kyōtei) was an agreement between the United States and Japan in which the United...
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    returned to Japan on 15 May 1972 as the Okinawa Prefecture according to the 1971 Okinawa Reversion Agreement. The US-Japan Security Treaty (ANPO) signed...
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    pact ensured smooth Okinawa reversion". The Japan Times. Archived from the original on June 6, 2011. 疑惑が晴れるのはいつか(in Japanese), Okinawa Times, May 16, 1999...
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    the Pacific War. They were returned to Japan under the 1971 Okinawa reversion agreement, with China disputing the Senkaku Islands. Administratively,...
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    during the 1970s and 1980s. The 1971 Okinawa Reversion Agreement officially ended the U.S. military occupation on Okinawa. The bases primarily exist to serve...
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    Government of the Ryukyu Islands (category Okinawa under United States occupation)
    abolished on May 14, 1972, when Okinawa was returned to Japan, in accordance with the 1971 Okinawa Reversion Agreement. The government was headed by a...
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    1972, when the islands returned to Japanese control under the Okinawa Reversion Agreement between the United States and Japan. The discovery of potential...
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    referred to in Articles 2 and 3. After a formal agreement reached on 17 June 1971, control of Okinawa was given back to Japan on 15 May 1972, and USCAR...
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    Nixon and Japanese Prime Minister Eisaku Satō later signed the Okinawa Reversion Agreement in Washington, D.C. on June 17, 1971. The U.S. reverted the islands...
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    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...
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    rest of Okinawa, were administered by the United States until 1972, when they were handed back to Japan after the 1971 Okinawa Reversion Agreement. Neither...
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  • Japan and the United States sign the Okinawa Reversion Agreement, whereby the U.S. will return control of Okinawa. President Richard Nixon declares the...
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    the U.S. military presence on Okinawa. Strategic bombers were deployed to the bases on Okinawa. Before the 1972 reversion of the island to Japanese administration...
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    Retrieved October 20, 2011. Okinawa Reversion Agreement—1971 Archived May 29, 2019, at the Wayback Machine, The Contemporary Okinawa Website. Accessed June...
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    military presence. On 24 November 1971, the Okinawa Reversion Agreement was ratified and returned the Okinawa Prefecture to Japanese sovereignty. In 1974...
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    longer legally responsible for compensating all victims. 1971 Okinawa Reversion Agreement Cairo Declaration (1943) General Order No. 1 (Aug. 1945) Japanese...
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    Islands, was the government in the Ryukyu Islands, Japan (centered on the Okinawa Island) from 1945 to 1950, whereupon it was replaced by the United States...
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    List of U.S. governors of the Ryukyu Islands (category Okinawa under United States occupation)
    Battle of Okinawa in 1945 until the return of the islands to Japanese sovereignty in 1972, in accordance with the 1971 Okinawa Reversion Agreement. Source:...
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    lasting from 1950 to 1972. It was returned to Japan following the Okinawa Reversion Agreement. As evidenced by the ruins of Shigumu and Takamine, humans have...
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    miracle Security Treaty Between the United States and Japan 1971 Okinawa Reversion Agreement Shipping Control Authority for the Japanese Merchant Marine The...
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  • Japan and the United States sign the Okinawa Reversion Agreement, whereby the U.S. will return control of Okinawa. June 18 – Southwest Airlines, the most...
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    Japan." These "became key elements [of] the 1969 U.S.-Japan Okinawa Reversion Agreement," effectively making "U.S. military presence more or less permanent...
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    and set the stage for the 1971 Okinawa Reversion Agreement to officially ending the U.S. military occupation on Okinawa. 32 Mace Missiles were kept on...
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    "What awaits Okinawa 40 years after reversion?". The Japan Times. Retrieved 2020-12-12. Spitzer, Kirk. "Tens of thousands protest on Okinawa to close key...
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    United States nuclear weapons in Japan (category History of Okinawa Prefecture)
    and set the stage for the 1971 Okinawa Reversion Agreement to officially ending the U.S. military occupation on Okinawa. In June or July 1959, a MIM-14...
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    ancestral home. Born on the small island lying off the northwestern coast of Okinawa Island, its founder Kanemaru traveled to Shuri in 1441, and became a retainer...
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  • Islanders' traumatic experience on Okinawa widened the psychological gap between the two groups. 1971 Okinawa Reversion Agreement Robert D. Eldridge (2003). The...
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    Chūzan (中山) was one of three kingdoms which controlled Okinawa in the 14th century. Okinawa, previously controlled by a number of local chieftains or lords...
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    Washington, D.C. June 17, 1971: The Okinawa Reversion Agreement, which returns administrative control of Okinawa to Japan, is signed simultaneously in...
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    of Congress acknowledges the 1971 Okinawa Reversion Agreement relinquishing United States authority of the Okinawa Prefecture better known as the Daitō...
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