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...Asian travelers have long been aware of their charms, the 1,000-km-long archipelago stretching out toward Taiwan remains something of an unknown to long-haul visitors, apart from its dubious renown as the location of the Battle of Okinawa. Visiting Japan? Here are five reasons why the Ryukyus should figure on your itinerary...
While the Minsk was cruising off Japan last summer, Japanese photographer Mitsuo Shibata, flying in a rented plane, spotted Moscow's newest carrier and took this revealing set of aerial pictures near Miyako Island in the Ryukyus. With the Minsk he found the Petropavlovsk, a Soviet cruiser that carries a new type of missile apparently designed to shoot down cruise missiles...
...Senkakus have been claimed by the Japanese since 1896. For the past 27 years they have been administered by the U.S., and they are due to be returned to Japanese control, along with the Ryukyus, on May 15. The problem is that the islands are now being claimed, as ancient Chinese territory, by both Peking and Taipei...
...government of Premier Eisaku Sato. Last week the U.S. approached the difficult decision. As Japan's Foreign Minister visited the White House to open formal talks on reversion, the Nixon Administration let it be known that it will soon move to return Okinawa and the other Ryukyus to Japanese control...
...might be. Two formidable rivals challenged him: 1) Eisaku Sato, 63, Minister of State under Ikeda and the obvious heir apparent, who attacked Ikeda's policy of "patience and tolerance," promised a dynamic regime that would fight for the return of the Kuril Islands from Russia and the Ryukyus (which include Okinawa) from the U.S.; and 2) Aiichiro Fujiyama, a silver-haired sugar baron who had served as former Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi's Foreign Minister and as party coordinator under Ikeda...