Word: ryukyu
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...Japan renounces its claims to Formosa (held by the Chinese Nationalists), the Kurile Islands and South Sakhalin (Rus sia got both at Yalta), the 623 formerly mandated islands of the Caroline, Mariana and Marshall chain (now controlled by the U.S. under U.N. trusteeship), and the Bonin and Ryukyu Islands, including B-29 base Okinawa (now occupied...
...trusteeship over the Japanese Ryukyu and Bonin Islands (including Okinawa...
...Iron Hand. In sharp contrast, Acheson then staked out a second Asian area in tougher language. The nation's defense, said he, rests on a North Pacific frontier running along the Aleutian Islands to Japan and down through the Ryukyu Islands (Okinawa) to the Philippines. In case of attack on this line, he said, the U.S. would defend all these positions. (For Korea, hanging perilously close to the most naked of Russian ambitions, the Secretary offered only a vaguer acknowledgment of "responsibility...
...suspected that Communist-tinged unions especially those affiliated with the clangorous Congress of International Unions (Japan's C.I.O.), were using their privileges to sabotage the occupation. When a seamen's walkout at Sasebo halted the sailing of five merchant ships which were to bring repatriates from the Ryukyu Islands and Manchuria, MacArthur decided it was time for plain speaking. He directed the Japanese Government to man and operate the ships and take necessary steps to prevent further walkouts. The Government was to carry out these orders "without the use of police force"; if this was impossible, occupation forces...
...hours before Doolittle spoke, command of the U.S.-held islands in the Ryukyu chain, including Okinawa, had passed in part from Admiral Nimitz to General MacArthur. But no word of this change had come from the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who made the decision. Not until week's end did MacArthur's headquarters proclaim: the Ryukyus, with the Philippines, "form a great semicircular base from which a mighty invasion force is being forged under the primary responsibility of General MacArthur for the final conquest of Japan...