Editing Ryūkyū Disposition (section)

=== After Ryūkyū Disposition ===
After the Ryukyu Islands were declared Japanese territory, the people living in the islands underwent rapid modernization, and some of the islanders welcomed such modernization. On the other hand, the people in the archipelago were forced to speak Japanese, and those who could not speak Japanese were subject to discrimination, mainly estrangement. Japan also popularized Shinto in the islands, and existing shrines and temples were converted to Shinto. The international community at the time did not criticize these actions in particular, and the territorial dispute with the Qing had been come to a settlement through the First Sino-Japanese War.