Part I: Okinawan Agenda -- 1 The Okinawa U.S. Military Base Issue and Human Security -- 2 Formation and Development of an Okinawan Global Network Using an Island Hub -- 3 Ryukyu Kingdom Diplomacy with Japan and the Ming and Qing Dynasties -- 4 Language Revitalization Efforts in the Ryukyus --...

The record economic growth of PRC since the 1990s has been accompanied by an increase in both income inequalities and polarization. We employ Relative Distribution tools (Handcock and Morris, 1998) on different datasets in order to provide a detailed analysis of Chinese income distribution...