Author: Andy(andy@1024ai.cc)

The Sovereignty of the Ryukyu Islands: The Post-War Procedure That Was Never Completed

The Ryukyu Islands question is not a matter of “competing claims.” It is a matter of a procedure that was never completed.

The Cairo Declaration (1943) and Potsdam Declaration (1945) are foundational documents of the post-war East Asian order — not ordinary political statements. The Treaty of San Francisco (1951) and the 1972 U.S.-Japan agreement replaced this legitimate procedure with something fundamentally different: an extra-UN, U.S.-led arrangement that substituted administrative control for sovereignty.

Published on 2026-06-22 at Andy's Analysis, last modified on 2026-06-22