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===Modern History===
===Modern History===
During World War II, Allied air raids destroyed roughly 90% of Naze City.<ref>Gallery labels, Amami Museum.</ref>
Following World War II, while the Allied Occupation ended in mainland Japan in 1952, and continued in Okinawa and the islands to the south until 1972, protests in the Amami Islands resulted in a restoration of the Amamis to Japanese sovereignty on December 25, 1953.<ref>Richard Siddle, "Return to Uchinâ," in Siddle and Glenn Hook (eds.), ''Japan and Okinawa: Structure and Subjectivity'', Routledge Curzon (2002), 135.</ref>
Following World War II, while the Allied Occupation ended in mainland Japan in 1952, and continued in Okinawa and the islands to the south until 1972, protests in the Amami Islands resulted in a restoration of the Amamis to Japanese sovereignty on December 25, 1953.<ref>Richard Siddle, "Return to Uchinâ," in Siddle and Glenn Hook (eds.), ''Japan and Okinawa: Structure and Subjectivity'', Routledge Curzon (2002), 135.</ref>
