was a

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bureaucrat and statesman, active in the

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. Matsuda was governor of

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from 1871 to 1875, and governor of

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from 1879 to 1882. Matsuda was sent to

Ryukyu The , also known as the or the , are a chain of Japanese islands that stretch southwest from Kyushu to Taiwan: the Ōsumi, Tokara, Amami, Okinawa, and Sakishima Islands (further divided into the Miyako and Yaeyama Islands), with Yonagu ...

in 1879. He abolished

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and declared the creation of Okinawa Prefecture in the same year. Hamashita, Takeshi. ''Okinawa Nyūmon'' (沖縄入門, "Introduction to Okinawa"). Tokyo: Chikuma Shobō, 2000, pp. 207–13.

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