Calls Grow in China to Press Claim for Okinawa.

The article reports that a group of Chinese analysts, scholars and military officials gather in Beijing, China in June 2013 to call the attention of the government involving its territorial disputes with Japan. It states that the government has not insisted a claim to Okinawa or the other isles in Ryukyu chain. Boston University associate professor Thomas U. Berger says that Japan conquered the island in 1609, but permitted them to pay tribute to China in 1655.