User talk:72.136.191.136
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[edit] Your Ryukyu Islands edit
I have noticed that you made the following edits: [1], to the Ryukyu Islands article on January 19, 2006. You've also stopped contributing since then from this anonymous IP address account. However if you do come back, could you inform me of your sources? The particular line I have trouble finding any sources is: "After Japan occupied Ryukyu, there was a series of massacres by the Japanese army that killed a major proportion of the Ryukyuan population..." —Tokek 10:53, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
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Well, I have the main source, a thesis written by a historian from either the Mainland or Taiwan province of China. The reasons I did not put it on were that the article is in Chinese, and the author currently remained anonymous (however, due to the quality of the article, I do not believe that is was written without professional history knowledge and a comprehensive research). If you really want it, I have no problem forward you the article I referenced. I assume that Wikipedia has some sort of online reference storage, I will post it there once I have fully learnt how to use it. It would help if you can show me how to do it. There are also many related articles in Chinese and English; however, it's been a long time, I would have to go back and look for them. I remeber that when I edited the Ryukyu article on Wikipedia, I had also ran into some Japanese Online sources; although I do not understand the hiragana, I learnt the contents by its kanji portions. I assume that you understand Japanese, try to look up the onlinr sources in Japanese, despite a large portion that fanatically admire the war, there is a noticeable number that talk relatively objectively. And if you want me to reference Ryukyu's Chinese root, I would say try to check ancient Chinese books in Japanese libraries, frankly, they might have preserved more ancient Chinese books than today's Chinese do. One book in particular is The "History of Ming" volume 211. I hope this would answer your questions.
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