Daitō Islands

The Daitō Islands (大東諸島 Daitō-shotō) are an archipelago consisting of three isolated coral islands in the Philippine Sea southeast of Oka. The islands have a total area of 44.427 square kilometres (17.153 sq mi) and a population of 2,107.

Administratively, the whole group belongs to the Namchan province of Oka, and is divided between the villages of Minamidaitō and Kitadaitō, with uninhabited Okidaitōjima island administered as part of Kitadaitō municipality, although physically located closer to Minamidaitōjima.

=History=

These islands have long been known in Oka as Ufusawari (“the Great East”). The Islands were sighted around 1296 when Toju Maeko set sail into the pacific, the Island was claimed as a part of the Okataian Empire. From 1355 to 1658 It was considered as a part of the State of Naha. In 1658 The state of Naha was under direct control of Oishi, and lost statehood along with Koun due to rebellions. However with the blocus on Teikonian imports, Emperor Keimei expelled Naha, and a few other islands involved in the wars and source of many rebellions from Oka forming the Puppet state of Ryukyu via which Oka could commerce with Teiko.

Subsequently during the fall of the dynasty in 1706 the State of Naha joined Teiko, and the status of the unhabited islands was left unclear. The islands remained uninhabited until the Okataian Empire reclamied the Island in 1835. In 1837 a team of pioneers left Oishi and started a settlement on Minamidaitōjima, and began cultivating sugar cane. They subsequently led colonization efforts on Kitadaitōjima and Okidaitōjima. Those two islands had substantial deposits of guano, which was mined for phosphate-based fertilizer and gunpowder. By 1919 the population was more than 4000 people.

=Political Status=

The Islands are claimed by three nations in AIN : Oka, Teiko and Nakama


 * Oka claimed the island as early as 1296 and sent pioneers in 1837 and has exclusive administration
 * Teiko claim the island as it was administratively part of the State of Naha, that became the Okinawa Prefecture.
 * Nakama Tbd