(Seal) [LGRI Receipt No. 463 Received on May 26, 1955 Legislature of the Government of the Ryukyu Islands]
Petition
At approximately two o’clock in the afternoon of March 2, 1955 at the coordinates 25° 4’ N, 123° 29’ E in the territorial waters of the Ryukyu Islands, the Daisan Seitoku-maru (Ship code: OT-51, weight 15.39 t), owned by ■■■■, was attacked by two junk ships Da ān (大安) and Jīn shuǐ jìn (金水進), with a Flag of the Republic of China “Qingtian-bairi-mandihongqi (sun-in-the-blue-sky). About the incidents, in which three people, ■■■■, ■■■■ and ■■■■ , went missing, we would like to thank both the Military Government and the Civilian Administration for their effort to search and rescue these missing crews after the incident.
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To protect the human rights and safety of us, fishermen, we strongly request that the Military Government, Civilian Administration and the Legislature make efforts to consider the following four initiatives:
(1) find the country of two mysterious junk ships,
(2) rescue the three missing crews, (3) lodge a strong protest against such acts, and (4) make efforts to strongly appeal to the international community to compensate for the personal and property damages caused by this incident.
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Content
Petition [May 1955]
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Document title | Petition [May 1955] |
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Date created (Western calendar) | May 1955 |
Date created (Japanese era) | May, Showa 30 |
Author(s) / Editor(s) | Seijin TOMA (Director of the Yonabaru Town Fisheries Cooperative Association) and three others |
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Name of publication | August 1956 [Documents on requests and petitions 1955] |
Content | This is a petition to the Legislature of the Government of the Ryukyu Islands from the bereaved families of the Daisan Seitoku-maru incident (received on May 26, 1955). Nearly three months have passed since the incident, and the bereaved families are requesting a search for the missing crews and relief measures for their daily life. |