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[Office of the Legal Advisor, East Asian Branch, Subject and Country Files cont.]<br />
0001 Ryukyus Command: Ordinances, 4 of 4, 1945–1954.<br />
Major Topics: Civil jurisdiction of Ryukyu Islands court systems; Okinawa Housing<br />
Corporation; University of the Ryukyus Foundation; control of communicable<br />
diseases; abolition of assistant doctors; contractors’ employees’ compensation<br />
benefits; nurses’ examining board ordinance; hospital and clinic ordinance;<br />
dental hygienist ordinance; Fire Defense Services laws; election law for<br />
assemblymen and mayors; amended charter of the Bank of the Ryukyus.<br />
Principal Correspondents: Vonna F. Burger; James M. Lewis; Charles V. Bromley;<br />
John G. Ondrick; John H. Hinds; W. M. Johnson.<br />
0170 Ryukyus Command: HICOM Proclamations, 1961–1951.<br />
Major Topics: Ryukyuan court systems; U.S. Civilian Court; U.S. Appellate Court;<br />
compensation for use of real estate within military areas; establishment of<br />
Ryukyu Islands government; land titles; workmen’s compensation claims; Nansei<br />
Shoto Islands political parties.<br />
Principal Correspondents: Paul W. Caraway; John G. Ondrick; Donald P. Booth;<br />
J. E. Moore; D. A. D. Ogden; Robert S. Beightler; Harry B. Sherman; Frederick L.<br />
Hayden; C. W. Nimitz.<br />
0248 Ryukyus: Land Acquisitions, 1953–1958.<br />
Major Topics: Okinawa land problem; Philip Kelleher; Noel Hemmendinger; Ryukyu<br />
Islands government interests in land used by U.S. military; U.S. property rights in<br />
Ryukyu Islands.<br />
Principal Correspondents: Walter S. Robertson; Charles E. Wilson; John Foster<br />
Dulles; Katherine B. Fite.<br />
0275 Ryukyus Command: Proclamations, 1–35, 1958.<br />
Major Topics: Nansei Shoto Islands and adjacent waters; closing of financial<br />
institutions; land ownership and rights; Ryukyu Islands court systems;<br />
compensation for use of real estate within military area; Ryukyuan-American<br />
Friendship Week; Higa Shuhei death; establishment of U.S. Civil Administration<br />
Criminal Courts.<br />
Principal Correspondents: C. W. Nimitz; J. D. Price; Robert S. Beightler; James E.<br />
Moore.<br />
0336 Pre-Treaty Ryukyus Land Claims, 1958.<br />
Major Topics: Petition and brief of the Okinawan Association to acquire<br />
compensation for damages prior to peace treaty; record of pretreaty land claims;<br />
U.S. responsibility before the peace treaty; international reclamations;<br />
governmental and administrative separation of outlying areas from Japan; U.S.<br />
Civil Administration directive in Ryukyu Islands; authority to execute leases and<br />
rental payment on privately owned Ryukuan lands occupied by the U.S. military;<br />
claim for damage compensation and restoration of released land in Misato Son,<br />
Urasoe Son; compensation for land disappeared in Naha Port area; Mainu<br />
Tengan claims; report of total losses sustained before Japanese Peace Treaty;<br />
delivery of funds specially allocated to Okinawa inhabitants; Leon H. Gavin<br />
Congressional Record remarks.<br />
Principal Correspondents: H. W. Aleen; James M. Lewis; Gazen Tokeshi; John W.<br />
Lane; George A. Walk.<br />
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