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==Background==

==Background==

The Miyako Islanders were shipwrecked and killed in the last month of [[1871]]. Roughly six months later, [[Yanagiwara Sakimitsu]], a Japanese official in Shanghai at the time, returned to Tokyo and reported the incident to the government. Shortly afterwards, various figures from Satsuma (now [[Kagoshima prefecture]]), especially [[Kabayama Sukenori]], a former samurai retainer to the [[Shimazu clan]] of [[Satsuma han]], and now commander of the second Kyushu outpost garrison, pressured Tokyo to send some sort of punitive military expedition to Taiwan.

The Miyako Islanders were shipwrecked and killed in the last month of [[1871]]. Roughly six months later, [[Yanagihara Sakimitsu]], a Japanese official in Shanghai at the time, returned to Tokyo and reported the incident to the government. Shortly afterwards, various figures from Satsuma (now [[Kagoshima prefecture]]), especially [[Kabayama Sukenori]], a former samurai retainer to the [[Shimazu clan]] of [[Satsuma han]], and now commander of the second Kyushu outpost garrison, pressured Tokyo to send some sort of punitive military expedition to Taiwan.

==The Expedition==

==The Expedition==