中国研讨会质疑冲绳岛主权

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Jane Perlez, 中国研讨会质疑冲绳岛主权. 纽约时报中文网, June 17, 2013
http://cn.nytimes.com/asia-pacific/20130617/c17okinawa/

, which is translated from

Jane Perlez, Calls Grow in China to Press Claim for Okinawa. New York Times, June 14, 2013
("the seminar last month [at Renmin University], which included state researchers and retired officers from the senior ranks of the People’s Liberation Army * * * But almost all the voices in China pressing the Okinawa issue are affiliated in some way with the government")

Note:
(a) "A magazine affiliated with the Chinese Foreign Ministry published a four-page spread on the issue in March."

'牡丹社事件’与日本吞并琉球国. 世界知识, March 2013.
http://news.takungpao.com/military/history/2013-05/1603526.html
(b) "Thomas U.Berger, an associate professor of international relations at Boston University, said Japan conquered the islands in 1609 but allowed them to pay tribute to China starting in 1655. General Luo, however, said the islands began paying tribute to China as early as 1372 and were not truly subjugated by Japan until 1872."
(i) History of the Ryukyu Islands
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Ryukyu_Islands
(The invasion of the Ryūkyūs by the Shimazu clan 島津氏 [大名] of Satsuma 薩摩 藩 took place in April 1609)
(ii) Ryukyu Domain 琉球藩 Ryūkyū han (1872-1879)   (BEFORE that was Ryūkyū Kingdom 琉球國 (1429–1879), according to the Wiki page for "Ryukyu Kingdom")
Okinawa Prefecture (1879- present)
(iii) 藩
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%97%A9
(日本史で言う藩は、江戸時代に1万石以上の領土を保有する封建領主である大名が支配した領域と、その支配機構を指す歴史用語である。江戸時代の儒学者が中国の制度になぞらえて用いた漢語的呼称に由来する)

translation: (A han in Japanese history is the domain or the government of a daimyo 大名 (equivalent to a feudal lord) whose stipend is 1万石以上. It is the same Chinese word that the 儒学者 of Edo Period [in Japan] copied from China's system.   
(iv) Prefectures of Japan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefectures_of_Japan
(The current system was established by the Meiji government in July 1871 with the abolition of the han system and establishment of the prefecture system (廃藩置県 haihan-chiken))