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Meanwhile, back in Tokyo, Matsuda was in [[1876]] named the head of a committee put together by the Home Ministry to organize urban planning in Tokyo. He presented a plan in [[1880]] which proposed boosting the city's economic development through the elimination of slums, improving the city's safety and hygiene, and improving infrastructure, including roads, canals, the water system, and the port facilities.<ref name=goddard>Timothy Unverzagt Goddard, "Teito Tokyo: Empire, Modernity, and the Metropolitan Imagination," PhD Dissertation, UCLA, 2013, p7.</ref> Matsuda was succeeded as governor of Tokyo by [[Yoshikawa Akimasa]]<!--芳川顕正, 1841-1920-->.<ref name=goddard/>

Meanwhile, back in Tokyo, Matsuda was in [[1876]] named the head of a committee put together by the Home Ministry to organize urban planning in Tokyo. He presented a plan in [[1880]] which proposed boosting the city's economic development through the elimination of slums, improving the city's safety and hygiene, and improving infrastructure, including roads, canals, the water system, and the port facilities.<ref name=goddard>Timothy Unverzagt Goddard, "Teito Tokyo: Empire, Modernity, and the Metropolitan Imagination," PhD Dissertation, UCLA, 2013, p7.</ref> Matsuda was succeeded as governor of Tokyo by [[Yoshikawa Akimasa]]<!--芳川顕正, 1841-1920-->.<ref name=goddard/>

Matsuda returned to Ryûkyû in [[1877]] to present further demands from Tokyo, and in [[1878]] he presented his own ideas for the "disposal of Ryûkyû" to [[Ito Hirobumi|Itô Hirobumi]]. Granted permission and authority to begin carrying this plan out, he returned to Ryûkyû once again in January [[1879]], and presented to [[Prince Nakijin]] a formal letter from the Prime Minister reproaching Ryûkyû for breaking the prohibition imposed by Japan on sending [[Ryukyuan tribute missions to China|diplomatic missions to China]], and for obstructing the implementation of Japanese law enforcement and criminal administration in the islands. Spending only a brief time there, he returned to Tokyo, and then back to Ryûkyû two months later, where he presented to the Prince the formal letter officially declaring the dissolution of the Kingdom of Ryûkyû and its annexation by the Japanese Empire, as Okinawa Prefecture.

Matsuda returned to Ryûkyû in [[1877]] to present further demands from Tokyo, and in [[1878]] he presented his own ideas for the "disposal of Ryûkyû" to [[Ito Hirobumi|Itô Hirobumi]]. Granted permission and authority to begin carrying this plan out, he returned to Ryûkyû once again in January [[1879]], and presented to [[Nakijin Chofu|Prince Nakijin]] a formal letter from the Prime Minister reproaching Ryûkyû for breaking the prohibition imposed by Japan on sending [[Ryukyuan tribute missions to China|diplomatic missions to China]], and for obstructing the implementation of Japanese law enforcement and criminal administration in the islands. Spending only a brief time there, he returned to Tokyo, and then back to Ryûkyû two months later, where he presented to the Prince the formal letter officially declaring the dissolution of the Kingdom of Ryûkyû and its annexation by the Japanese Empire, as Okinawa Prefecture.

He then remained in Okinawa, or traveled back and forth between there and Tokyo, continuing to oversee the implementation of the ''shobun'' for some time, though he was never named governor of Okinawa.

He then remained in Okinawa, or traveled back and forth between there and Tokyo, continuing to oversee the implementation of the ''shobun'' for some time, though he was never named governor of Okinawa.