AHC: Independent Ryukyu

Not that challenging really. Have the Ryukyus remain in American hands after WWII, and they can end up as a protect... associated state like the Marshall Islands or Palau. With China and Japan as neighbors, they're going to need a powerful friend.
 
Find some way for the British to turn the Ryukyu Kingdom into a protected state where they take over control of foreign policy and defence but internal matters are left to the native monarchs as like what happened with Brunei or Tonga. During WWII the Japanese invade the kingdom just as they did with other British territory and occupy it until the islands are liberated towards the end of the war. Post-war since they've never been a part of Japan and won't have suffered the suppression of Ryukyuan culture, language and religious practices the Japanese carried out after annexing them in 1879 in our timeline there would be no reason for them to join with Japan. From there you can take things where you want. If it happened after the Satsuma domain annexed the Amami islands in the early 1600s I believe it was you could potentially see Japan being forced to hand them back, personally however I think they would be more trouble than they were worth since by then the local population is likely to have been pretty, forcibly, culturally assimilated. But it's not like international relations have always run on total logic. :)
 
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not enoug Man power and do you think America will stand it while China is Agressive?

Not enough man power for what? Japan giving up Okinawa, doesn't mean American not having bases off the coast of the Asian mainland. It means building more bases in the main Japanese islands. Okinawa's been shouldering a disprortionate amount of American bases, despite the fact that they had a very limited part in starting and fighting the Pacific War.
 
Find some way for the British to turn the Ryukyu Kingdom into a protected state where they take over control of foreign policy and defence but internal matters are left to the native monarchs as like what happened with Brunei or Tonga. During WWII the Japanese invade the kingdom just as they did with other British territory and occupy it until the islands are liberated towards the end of the war. Post-war since they've never been a part of Japan and won't have suffered the suppression of Ryukyuan culture, language and religious practices the Japanese carried out after annexing them in 1879 in our timeline there would be no reason for them to join with Japan. From there you can take things where you want. If it happened after the Satsuma domain annexed the Amami islands in the early 1600s I believe it was you could potentially see Japan being forced to hand them back, personally however I think they would be more trouble than they were worth since by then the local population is likely to have been pretty, forcibly, culturally assimilated. But it's not like international relations have always run on total logic. :)

That has a lot of butterflies. Since the 1600s, the Ryukyus were in the Japanese sphere. The British taking it over before the Japanese (presumably in the early 1800s), would likely lead to a war (that Japan would lose), and an earlier Meiji Reformation.
 
I think it would be very interesting- Rykukyu was a vassal to the Chinese for centuries, but they would end up under the economic influence of Japan/U.S. It would be interesting to imagine how their culture would develop.
 
Just prevent Japan or another power in the region from rising in the 1860's , and have a colonial power reply to a request (Swaziland-style) to protect it.
 
Not that challenging really. Have the Ryukyus remain in American hands after WWII, and they can end up as a protect... associated state like the Marshall Islands or Palau. With China and Japan as neighbors, they're going to need a powerful friend.

The Ryukyu's did remain under American jurisdiction after WWII; we formally transferred them and all administration back to Japan in the 70's.
 
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